Position: Trainee Business Executive 
Location: Based outside of Abingdon (OX13)
Salary: £competitive
Hours: 5 day working week, 09:00 – 17:00 (Working every Saturday, with 1 day off in the week – once your training is complete, you will work 1 in 4 Saturdays)
Experience: Business Executive, Trainee, Administration, Customer Service, Showroom, Sales Administrator, Flooring 

The Opportunity: 

Thompson & Terry Recruitment are working alongside an established and successful premium flooring business based in Wootton who are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and confident Trainee Business Executive to join their team. 

As Trainee Business Executive, your role will be very varied where you will gain valuable experience in customer service, sales, and administration and learn about the general day to day running of a business.  

As Trainee Business Executive, you will be responsible for managing customer calls, responding to customer emails, diary management and dealing with suppliers. Therefore, you must be confident and passionate about building strong personable relationships with customers and corporate clients alike. 

The successful Trainee Business Executive will therefore be responsible for providing exceptional customer service, explaining flooring options, sending customers further details and booking in appointments. Therefore, attention to detail and offering customer service excellence is paramount. 

Within this role, you will be given lots of responsibility early on, so it’s a fantastic and unique opportunity to expand your skillset and really build a solid career. The role has become available due to expansion and the previous post holder being promoted, so there are also opportunities for progression. 

The Company: 

Thompson & Terry Recruitment’s client are an established and successful high-end flooring business who are looking to recruit a Trainee Business Executive due to expansion. 

They pride themselves on the quality of their work, providing an accurate and seamless customer experience is at the forefront of each employee’s mind. The successful Trainee Business Executive must therefore be extremely organised and able effectively manage a high workload, with little room for error.  

 Our client also prides themselves on the training and progression of their staff. All their showroom staff have progressed within the company and really built their career, so this is a fantastic opportunity to build your own career early on.

Requirements: 

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build a rapport with corporate clients and the general public alike 
• Ability to offer premium level of customer service 
• Strong level of spelling and grammar 

• Evidence of having strong administration skills and managing a high workload 
• Natural business acumen and the ability to work with numbers 

Thompson & Terry Ltd, trading as Thompson & Terry Recruitment (thompsonandterry.co.uk), are an Abingdon based recruitment agency specialising in placing candidates into jobs in Oxford and across Oxfordshire. We typically source candidates into Office Administration Jobs, Sales Jobs and Marketing Jobs. No terminology used in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of any of the protected characteristics.   

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a high volume of applications, if you have not heard from us within 5 working days, unfortunately, your application has been unsuccessful at this time.