Job Summary Required Qualifications and Skills
We are seeking a highly organized and proactive Sales Assistant to support a growing sales organization in Charlotte, NC. This direct hire opportunity is ideal for someone who enjoys sales support, operations coordination, reporting, presentations, customer follow-up, and keeping a busy team prepared and on track.
In this role, you will work closely with sales representatives and company leadership to help ensure customer meetings, order updates, account information, sales materials, and follow-up items are handled accurately and efficiently. You will be the person behind the scenes who brings structure, visibility, and follow-through to the sales process.
This is a great opportunity to join an entrepreneurial, fast-moving environment where your organization, attention to detail, and ability to anticipate needs will make a direct impact. The team values proactive communication, collaboration, accountability, and people who take pride in helping others succeed.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the sales team and leadership by preparing account information, sales history, order activity, product details, presentations, and customer meeting materials.
- Create and maintain meeting agendas, talking points, account summaries, follow-up notes, and action item trackers.
- Prepare recurring sales reports, dashboards, spreadsheets, and account summaries to help leadership monitor customer activity, order trends, opportunities, and performance.
- Build and update polished PowerPoint presentations for customer meetings, business reviews, internal sales discussions, and leadership presentations.
- Monitor customer orders, maintain order status visibility, coordinate updates with internal teams, and proactively flag potential issues.
- Maintain organized customer, prospect, product, pricing, presentation, and sales support materials so the team has accurate information when needed.
Compensation and Benefits
- Salary range: $48,000 to $55,000 per year.
- Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM.
- Work arrangement: 100% onsite in Charlotte, NC.
- Prepare sales representatives and leadership for customer calls, meetings, business reviews, and follow-up activities.
- Manage sales reporting, dashboards, trackers, spreadsheets, customer summaries, and order visibility tools.
- Create professional PowerPoint presentations and customer-ready sales materials.
- Track meeting action items, customer commitments, order updates, and internal follow-through.
- 3 to 5 years of experience in sales support, sales operations, account coordination, customer support, project coordination, or a similar role.
- Strong Excel or spreadsheet skills with the ability to organize, analyze, track, and present data clearly.
- Experience creating polished PowerPoint presentations and professional customer-facing materials.
- Strong attention to detail, organization, follow-through, and ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Comfortable working with sales data, customer information, order activity, reports, and internal trackers.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Proactive mindset with the ability to anticipate what the sales team and leadership will need next.
- Confidence to ask questions, follow up, keep people accountable, and help ensure next steps are completed.
- Ability to work effectively in a growing company where priorities may shift and processes continue to evolve.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with consumer products, manufacturing, distribution, retail, supplements, wellness products, or another regulated or product-driven environment.
- Experience supporting a sales team in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, or growth-oriented company.
- Familiarity with customer account tracking, order management processes, pricing materials, or product information management.
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