Graduate Vacancy

Details for Project No: 1850
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Status:
 CLOSED Application Close Date:  30/05/2010
Vacancy ID:
 1850
Project Type:
 Sustainability
Position:
 Graduate Trainee
Location:
 Clapham
Project County:
 London
Employer:
 Green Rewards
Host Organisation:
 Green Rewards
Telephone Interview Week Commencing:
 31/05/2010
Interview Date:
 10/06/2010
Project Start Date:
 05/07/2010
Duration:
 52 weeks
Project End Date:
 01/07/2011
Salary:
 £13500pa
Hours Per week:
 35
Work Out of Normal Hrs?:
 Weekend trade fairs/longer hours if required
SFS Contact:
 Jenny Mace

Background:
Green Rewards is a young business that is led as Managing Director by one of the co-founders, Graham Simmonds, and the company has a strong ‘can do’ ethos. Creativity, flexibility, a commitment to customer service, attention to detail and a sense of fun are all qualities held in abundance by the staff team; the working environment is fast-paced, pressured at times, and highly motivating. The Company is committed to developing its people and it is hoped that all staff feel they have a career at Green Rewards rather than just a job, and feel they can grow with the Company.

Objective: 
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual to join a young, dynamic company that is aiming to be the marketing leading green and ethical rewards company. The main purpose of the job is to support the Account Manager in administering all aspects of the Company’s retailing activities.

Benefits To Graduate
Learning a wide variety of tasks, working within a small team, increased knowledge of eco retail market.

Employment Potential and Options Post Project Work
Permanent post at Green Rewards or excellent opportunities in other ethical consumerism organisations.

Outputs:
1. Helping to source new products for the business.
2. Initiating new and exciting ideas for the website regarding information / customer communications / and visual displays.
3. Keeping abreast of current ‘green’ affairs.
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Essential Selection Criteria:
1. Must be highly IT literate and confident with the web, word, spreadsheets, etc
2. Must have graduated in 2008 or 2009.
3. Must be a strong administrator, thoroughly organised and able to pay close attention to detail.
4. Must have good communication skills, both written and verbal.
5. Must be highly motivated to do well at work.
6. Should be able to demonstrate a creative and innovative approach to problem-solving and new ideas.
7. Must have a confident telephone manner.
8. Must be a good team player, able to develop effective relationships with staff colleagues, customers, suppliers and external agencies.
9. Must have a passion for green and ethical issues, and ideally a good understanding of the latest thinking on sustainability.
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Desirable Selection Criteria:
1. A sense of fun combined with a sense of humour would be very useful!
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Key Tasks:
1. Receiving and replying to customer service enquires – via e-mail and phone – and logging these for future reference.
2. Researching potential new suppliers and new products.
3. Speaking directly to suppliers – via e-mail and phone – chasing deliveries / querying invoices / discussing new products.
4. Receiving and checking invoices against sales data.
5. Recording sales data on the master spreadsheet.
6. Activating changes to the website via our back end programme – ‘Netfox’, this includes: product descriptions / product images / prices / supplier information.
7. Monitoring and recording all product updates via master spread sheet.
8. Price checking competitor sites / researching current ‘green’ affairs.
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