Internal Sales Account Handler
Base salary up to £28,350, depending on skills and experience, plus a fantastic benefits package including company bonus, free parking, a competitive pension scheme, paid volunteering days, a subsidised onsite deli, and more.
Designing award-winning products for our market-leading brands – Mira Showers and Rada - is our lifeblood. We focus on investing in the best technology and resources available, as well as in each and every individual. Put simply, it’s who we are. Whether you arrive at our factories in Cheltenham or Hull, have a visit from a Service Engineer or pick up the phone to our Customer Service team, you’ll instantly see that, no matter our department or location, we all share the same values at Kohler Mira.
From day one you’re part of the Kohler Mira community – a collaborative, forward-focused team with a shared pride in our work and commitment to delight our customers, develop innovative products and services, and inspire our people (who knew a bathroom manufacturing company did all this?!)
But, to get to where we want to be, we are looking for an Internal Sales Account Handler. Find out more below!
As the key point of contact for our B2B customers, you’ll handle inbound enquiries across phone, email, and customer portals, while taking ownership of accounts through the entire order fulfilment journey.
You’ll be part of a collaborative Internal Sales team, where success is driven by teamwork and shared accountability. We’re looking for someone who takes initiative, makes confident commercial decisions, and can effectively balance customer satisfaction with business priorities.
Key Responsibilities
Order Book Management
- Accurately process all order types within SAP, including the validation of electronically transmitted customer orders.
- Review incoming customer orders against forecasted volumes using Power BI, proactively highlighting risks or variances.
- Liaise with Material Planners to ensure customer delivery requirements are met and supply constraints are effectively managed.
- Utilise customer order fulfilment portals for order placement, despatch and invoicing, ensuring all agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are consistently achieved.
- Proactively use systems, tools and functional contacts to effectively manage the customer order book, minimising overdue orders and keeping customers informed of any changes to delivery dates or lead times.
Management of Customer Returns
- Assess customer return requests and process them within agreed timescales, ensuring established procedures are followed and restocking fees are recovered where applicable.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams and external logistics providers to arrange product uplift, ensuring returns cycle time targets are met.
- Regularly run and review returns reports to analyse return volumes, trends and outstanding actions.
Customer Invoice Management
- Work closely with the Accounts Receivable team to identify and resolve customer invoice queries and account deductions, supporting timely account reconciliation and minimising aged debt.
- Investigate and resolve invoice disputes through effective fact-finding and root cause analysis.
- Use the invoice dispute database to ensure customer queries are logged, tracked and actioned promptly to avoid delays in payment.
- Replicate and upload invoices to customer web-based portals where required.
Management of Customer and Business Needs
- Proactively seek solutions and make recommendations to resolve customer issues within established guidelines, ensuring outcomes meet both customer expectations and business requirements.
- Take appropriate opportunities to promote the business and raise awareness of branded products and services during customer interactions.
- Build strong relationships with key customers to understand their needs and identify opportunities for service or process improvements.
- Ensure customer service levels are achieved, maintained and exceeded against KPIs and business measures by working collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
- Maintain strict adherence to customer SLAs to avoid service failures and potential financial penalties.
Skills/Requirements
- Strong experience in order processing and account management within a B2B environment.
- Working knowledge of SAP or similar ERP systems, with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Confident use of data and reporting tools (e.g. Power BI) to review forecasts, analyse trends and support decision-making.
- Experience working with customer order fulfilment portals, invoicing platforms and service-level reporting.
- Understanding of order-to-cash processes, including invoicing, returns and credit management.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously while meeting deadlines and service-level commitments.
Customer & Commercial Skills
- Strong customer focus, with the ability to balance customer expectations alongside business and commercial requirements.
- Commercial awareness, with an ability to identify opportunities to promote products and services appropriately during customer interactions.
- Confident and professional communication skills, both written and verbal, tailored to a range of internal and external stakeholders.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
- Strong teamwork skills, working collaboratively within the Internal Sales function and across cross-functional teams including Planning, Logistics and Finance.
- Builds effective working relationships with key customers and internal stakeholders to support service delivery and continuous improvement.
Ways of Working
- Demonstrates ownership and accountability for customer outcomes and resolution of issues end-to-end.
- Proactive and solution-oriented, taking initiative while knowing when to escalate or seek guidance.
- Organised and methodical, with a strong attention to detail and commitment to process compliance.
We can offer you a lot in return!
We empower each associate to #BecomeMoreAtKohler with a competitive total rewards package to support your health and wellbeing, access to career growth and development opportunities, a diverse and inclusive workplace, and a strong culture of innovation. With a genuine commitment to creating better tomorrows, we’re driving meaningful change in our mission to help people live gracious, healthy, and sustainable lives.
About Us
In the UK, Kohler Mira Ltd. is made up of three market leading brands: Mira Showers, Rada Controls, and Recoup Where our brands differ in market position, they are equal in their commitment to design, innovation, and providing a single level of quality regardless of price.
Kohler Mira is committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse associates, consumers, partners, and global communities. As an equal opportunities employer, it is Kohler Mira’s policy to recruit, hire, and promote qualified people in all job classifications without prejudice. If, as an individual with a disability, you require adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact talentacquisitionuk@kohler.com.
Note for Recruitment Agencies: The Kohler Talent Acquisition team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible. We do work with recruitment agencies, and where we require external support, we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us. Speculative CVs sent by any agency to Kohler Co. without a specific request by our Talent Acquisition Team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.
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