Do you have a timber or electrical trade background?
Do you understand the advantages of using competitively priced, quality fixings?
Do you know your way around Adobe Photoshop suite?
Are you fed up of seasonal work but want to stay connected to the industry using your knowledge and skills on a day-to-day basis?
Would you like a new challenging career with like-minded people?
If you do, then you could be just the person we are looking for.

Due to the rapid expansion of our UK business we are recruiting for positions in our team of knowledgeable office based technical sales staff supporting our customers, end users and our area brand representatives. This is key role within the business and is critical to the sustained development and growth of our brands.

The role includes:
• Advising end users on the correct choice of products for their applications.
• Maintaining and improving relationships with existing customers and forging new partnerships with distributors around the UK.
• Using your trades knowledge to encourage end users to try our own brand products and finding supply paths for them through our distributor network.
• Taking orders by phone, fax and email and processing them through to completion using our computer systems.
• Using sales data to identify opportunities and reacting to these.
• Supporting our area based brand representatives throughout the country, helping them to arrange regular product demonstration days in their areas and generate visitors to these events as well as following up on leads and reacting to information fed back to the office from distributor visits.
• Assisting in the day-to-day running of a busy sales office environment.
• Taking ownership of all responsibilities and seeing them through to their conclusion in an ordered and detailed fashion.
• Liaising with the management team regarding any of the above requirements.
• Using your artistic flare to create posters, adverts banners and more, supporting the marketing requirements of the company
• Generating marketing and technical content for our website and social media platforms


To work with us you will:
• Have a sound knowledge of the timber or electrical industry (or both) preferably through first-hand experience in the trade.
• Have the drive and motivation to be proactive during the day taking and making telephone calls and constantly searching for new ways to interact with our trade-based customers.
• Be able to confidently interact with our end users and distributors answering technical questions and guiding customers to the right products for their applications.
• Have experience using Photoshop, and/or other design suite software to a professional standard.
• Be willing to pitch-in at any level of the business to offer support wherever it is required.
• Be detail-orientated, and process driven with a desire to constantly improve the system and environment in which you work.
• Be confident enough to challenge the systems and offer suggestions on more efficient ways of working.
• Be confident with computer systems and have a working knowledge of basic Microsoft Windows based products.
• Understand how your work can impact on others in the team.
• Understand how your work can impact our brand reputation.
• Be able to meet deadlines and commitments
• Demonstrate an ability to develop your knowledge and understanding of technical products
• Be reliable and trustworthy, taking pride in all you do.

Specifics:
• Our office hours are Monday to Friday 07:30-16:30
• 20 days of annual holiday entitlement + bank holidays and Christmas
• Based in Linton, Kent
• Free on-site parking
• Free tea and coffee!
• We offer competitive rates of pay and performance based incentives
• Company pension scheme (dependent on length of service)
• Company benefits and rewards (dependent on length of service)
• Recruiting now for an immediate start

OSC is based in Linton, Kent and for nearly twenty years has been supplying the timber and electrical trade with high quality, reliable and cost effective fixing solutions. We are the company behind the market leading own brands of Carpenters Mate (timber fixings) and Orbix (electrical fixings), as well as being the UK importers of Camo (hidden decking screws) and Fastenmaster (timber fixings) too. We are a privately owned, family orientated company believing in the traditional values of long term partnerships over short term profits and do so by providing excellent service to our customer base which complements our high-quality products.