Sales Administrator

An exciting opportunity has been created at Mercedes-Benz of Guildford for a Sales Administrator.

The Company

Mercedes-Benz of Guildford forms part of the Sandown Motor Group and has over 30 years of experience, selling and servicing Mercedes-Benz cars.  A privately owned group the Sandown name has an immensely proud heritage with Mercedes-Benz and means that they are experts in this iconic brand.  Their simple goal is to deliver the most outstanding service from each of their sites in Guildford, Basingstoke, Poole, Dorchester, Salisbury, Hindhead, Newbury and Epsom.  

The Role

As a Mercedes-Benz Sales Administrator, you are responsible for providing support to the Sales Team by preparing all relevant documentation for an efficient handover of the vehicle to the customer. Processing of relevant stock information onto the stock database and providing general administrative support to the business, as required.  The hours are 0830 to 1730 Monday to Friday, working within a team of friendly like-minded people.

Key responsibilities:

• Secure both New and Used vehicle once orders placed by our customers
• Provide updates to internal and external parties
• Raise relevant documentation for customers
• Provide weekly updates to sales staff on current orders
• Liaise with Transaction Managers and Sales Team for order packs
• Upload finance documents
• Ensure vehicles are paid in full by customers prior to taxing
• Taxing of both new and used vehicles
• Raise internal requests for vehicle pre delivery inspection and additional agreed work
• Assist with bringing site purchases into stock
• Registering service plans
• Upload deal files onto M-Store

About you

The successful candidate will ideally have previous automotive experience in a similar role, however if you have great administrative experience in a similar environment, your application may still be considered.  You will have great interpersonal and communication skills, have fantastic organisational skills and attention to detail.   You will also have excellent IT skills, with automotive systems experience such as Kerridge being a bonus. 

On Offer

Salary £24,000, plus lots of benefits including the most up to date training offered by the manufacturer, life assurance and staff discounts.

Our Process

When applying please include a full current CV with your current salary outlined and notice period, once this has been reviewed, we will be in touch to advise if your application will be progressed through to the next stage. The Riverside Resourcing & Consultancy recruitment process reflects our obligations under relevant UK legislation. Whilst all applications are carefully considered, we are only able to progress applications from candidates who have the right to work in the United Kingdom.

Managing your data 

We care about your personal data.  The General Data Protection Regulation provides you with more control and by applying to us, we consider this to be an agreement to process your personal data in support of our recruitment and selection process.  Your application data is held within our secure applicant tracking system through hireful - you will be given access to a candidate zone in this system where you can monitor and manage your application and see status updates.   We will communicate with you, by email or phone, throughout the recruitment process so that we can keep you updated and inform you of your application progress.