Sales Support Officer

Sales Support Officer Ashford £Competitive salary Full time, permanent. Our company Ardo supplies its continuously growing markets around the world with high quality frozen vegetables, herbs, and fruit with 4000 employees and 17 production sites in 8 countries. The family business sells in more than 100 countries and has a turnover of more than 1.4 billion euros. Ardo's mission is to preserve the gift of nature as pure as possible. Ardo achieves this goal thanks to an integrated network of growing areas, production units, freezing units, packaging equipment, appropriate logistics and thorough quality control. The group's know-how and flexible structure ensure that it can respond quickly to new trends and that innovative products can be brought onto the market quickly. Scope As a Sales Support Officer (Key Account Support), you are part of our Ardo Group Sales Support Team, which functions as a centre of expertise to monitor a worldwide customer portfolio within the food retail markets. You will act as the central point of contact with regards to product support, contract & forecast follow-up etc. By creating reports and analyzing customer data, you gain insights for the organization and the customer. You dare to jump when seeing opportunities and proactively monitor and improve customer satisfaction. Your commercial attitude allows you to build strong business relationships. In this role you interact frequently with the key account manager retail, customer service and supply chain to guarantee a correct follow-up & gain internal support for your customers. You will report to the Group Sales Support Team Lead. The scope of the role: * You provide periodic and ad hoc reports on turnover, assortment, profitability, customised reports, both for internal use as for the customer * You translate topics from supply chain/purchasing to sales impact (constrained forecast, foil problems, discontinued items…) * Proactively support account managers by managing and analyzing customer files, market data and product portfolio's and prepare customer meetings * In collaboration with the account manager you monitor, prepare and follow up tenders and quotations * Take the lead in communication with the customer concerning * Item screenings coordination and article creation and introduction of new products * follow-up of packaging (new packaging samples, first production timings, phase-out packaging stock) * NPD samples * Promo management (forecasting and analyzing) * SLA follow-up * Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to assist in the successful completion of the sales processes and to ensure accurate execution (marketing, data management, supply chain, demand planning) * You coordinate reporting related projects and are the internal communicator for customer related questions (such as QA, internal data, material statuses). Your talent * You have a master’s degree * 5-year experience in a large, fast-moving company in a customer service, inside sales or sales support role * Building reports and analyzing data is in your DNA. * You work easily with new IT systems (preferably SAP) and have an advanced level of excel knowledge. Experience with Power BI is a plus * Customer contact & delivering service are at the top of your dictionary. A commercial, client focused mindset is a must-have * You love networking and are able to think on an international (group) level * You are proactive and take initiative to build a relationship with your customer and maximize the chances of success for each opportunity * You are eager to learn, to develop and to be developed. You adapt easily in an evolving business context * You are flexible and a multitasker which make you able to manage complexity * You think in a solution and process-oriented way, and you embrace change, having a continuous improvement mindset * You have a positive attitude about the company’s future and a passion for winning, with the right motivation to obtain results * Business improvement: * You take initiative and suggests tools to optimize our processes that can also be implemented on a group level * You are a constructive team player who helps us to grow in a structured way * Teamwork: * You are flexible and share a team responsibility with your colleagues * You coach your customer service and sales support colleagues in the required processes. Why Ardo? We offer you the opportunity to be part of an authentic and sustainable international company, with real growth opportunities and the freedom to actively participate in shaping the business and the opportunity to develop professionally. You will receive a full remuneration package in line with the level of this position. We care for our people and create family-friendly surroundings by offering you the flexibility to work 2 days/week from home. Interpersonnel Recruitment is operating as an Employment Agency for our client for this particular role. By applying you give consent for your data to be handled and processed under GDPR Legislation for the purpose of your current employment search. We ask that all applicants already have Right to Work UK documentation in place and on file. We are pleased to receive a significant number of applications for most roles advertised. We are therefore unable to respond to individual applicants unless shortlisted. 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Location: TN27, Westwell Leacon, GB

Posted Date: 9/15/2025