The Role
You will support the sales team across quoting, ordering, order checking and project administration, helping them focus on winning work and developing client relationships.
Responsibilities
- Produce and quality-check furniture quotations
- Request and review supplier quotations
- Work confidently across multiple supplier price lists
- Raise purchase orders and place orders with approved suppliers
- Check order acknowledgements and identify discrepancies
- Prepare project front sheets, handover information and supporting documentation
- Help protect project margins through accurate checking and clear communication
- Update the CRM, internal systems and project information
- Support the project management team with occasional site visits and snagging
- Prepare O & M information, sustainability reports and carbon documentation
- Support PQQ submissions and other business documentation
- Coordinate supplier presentations, Lunch & Learns and team events
- Re-prioritise tasks when urgent quotations or orders arise
About You
You will already have experience working within the commercial furniture, workplace interiors or FF&E industry, ideally for a furniture dealer or manufacturer.
You should be able to hit the ground running and will ideally have experience in several of the following areas:
- Produce furniture quotations
- Read and interpret supplier price lists
- Raise purchase orders
- Place furniture orders
- Check order acknowledgements
- Identify pricing, specification or quantity discrepancies
- Support projects from quotation through to delivery
- Work with CRM, ordering or job-costing systems
You will also be
- Numerically confident and highly accurate
- Meticulous when checking quotes, orders and documentation
- Comfortable working under pressure and managing competing deadlines
- Confident communicating with suppliers, clients and internal teams
- Proactive, dependable and willing to take ownership
- Commercially aware, with an understanding of margins and project costs
- A genuine team player with a practical, roll-your-sleeves-up attitude
- Interested in sustainability and responsible procurement
Advanced Microsoft 365 skills are required. Experience using CRM systems or furniture-ordering software would be advantageous, while Adobe InDesign experience is useful but not essential.
Why Consider This Role?
Sales Support positions at this level rarely offer a salary of up to £50,000. The package reflects the importance of the role and the level of furniture knowledge, commercial understanding and responsibility required.
You will be joining a respected, design-led dealer with ambitious plans, a strong commitment to sustainability and an established position within the UK commercial furniture market.
Benefits
- Salary up to £50,000, depending on experience
- 22 days’ annual leave
- Additional Christmas shutdown
- Bank and public holidays
- Your birthday off
- Permanent London-based position
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
Senior Sales Support Furniture Dealer employer: Collate
Join a respected international business that values creativity and technical expertise in the workplace interiors and commercial furniture sector. With a strong focus on collaboration, you will have the opportunity to work on substantial projects for leading organisations, while enjoying a supportive work culture that fosters professional growth and offers a balance of creative freedom and client engagement. This role not only allows you to showcase your design skills but also provides a platform for meaningful contributions in a dynamic environment.
