The Role
The Sales Assistant III will provide administrative support to the sales team, manage calendars, coordinate customer visits, and assist with various projects. This role requires effective communication and a tech-savvy approach.
Summary Generated by Built In
Blentech Corporation is looking for an enthusiastic and skilled SalesAdministrative Assistant III to join our team. If you are ready to make a significant impact and grow with a company that values innovation and collaboration, this is the perfect opportunity for you. For over 38 years, we have creatively blended function, durability, sanitary design, safety, and performance into the design and construction of Blentech systems. We are a leader in the food equipment sector. We provide process and equipment solutions that deliver safe, economical, nutritional, and good-tasting foods to the WORLD.
Blentech Corporation is a four-time winner of the North Bay's Best Places to Work Award, most recently in 2025. Our culture is focused on understanding. We first seek to listen before we act. The team is driven and detail-oriented, and willing to go the extra mile. Our technologies are renowned across our industry for their impact; we make food faster, safer, and in many cases, elevate quality all in one.
As a Sales Administrative Assistant III, you will be at the heart of our Sales and Admin team. The ideal candidate will be an initiative-taking self-starter with a proven history of problem-solving, professionalism, confidentiality, and administrative tasks. If you like to be right in the middle of things and enjoy helping a team, then this is the right place for you.
Key Responsibilities:
Sales Support:
Administrative Support
Preferred Qualifications:
What we offer:
Hourly Wage range DOE: $29.15 - $32.53
This position is not open to Recruiters.
We are Not accepting International Applicants.
Blentech Corporation is a four-time winner of the North Bay's Best Places to Work Award, most recently in 2025. Our culture is focused on understanding. We first seek to listen before we act. The team is driven and detail-oriented, and willing to go the extra mile. Our technologies are renowned across our industry for their impact; we make food faster, safer, and in many cases, elevate quality all in one.
As a Sales Administrative Assistant III, you will be at the heart of our Sales and Admin team. The ideal candidate will be an initiative-taking self-starter with a proven history of problem-solving, professionalism, confidentiality, and administrative tasks. If you like to be right in the middle of things and enjoy helping a team, then this is the right place for you.
Key Responsibilities:
Sales Support:
- Manage the National Sales Manager’s calendar
- Review and create responses for sales teams' prospecting emails
- Follow up on Salesforce tasks and email responses
- Salesforce administrative support, including updating Salesforce on behalf of the sales team
- Responsible for the kickoff approval process of closed won opportunities and scheduling kickoff meetings
- Expense reports as requested by team members, especially those who are frequently traveling
- Coordination of customer visits, including hospitality, coordinating travel arrangements, writing letters of initiation for international customers, and creating customer agendas
- Scheduling calls with customers, including Sales calls and Testing & Trials Calls
- Attend work center meetings for the sales team
- Support the Sales Management with agendas, notes, and deliverables follow-up
- Responsible for ensuring the Innovation Center facility is customer-ready
Administrative Support
- Track, send, and log Confidentiality Agreements
- Travel booking
- Serve as backup for answering the Blentech main phone line
- Coordinate company events, ie, Safety lunches, all staff meetings, leadership/work center meetings
- Formatting and revising of customer letters and reports
- Support Applications/Technical sales as needed with quotation updates and trial planning
- Special projects as they arise
- This is an on-site position in the Santa Rosa office
- 40 hours a week. The schedule is Monday – Friday, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ability to work with Salesforce CRM, Google applications, AI proficiency, and other programs as required
- Able to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Effective communication skills, both verbal and written
- Professionalism is a must
- 2-4 years of experience in a Sales Assistant position
- Bachelor's Degree a plus
What we offer:
Hourly Wage range DOE: $29.15 - $32.53
- 100% company-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision for the employee
- 401(k) with up to 4% company match after 6 months of employment
- Paid time off and holidays. The starting PTO accrual is 4.66 hours of PTO earned every pay period.
- Opportunities for career growth and training.
This position is not open to Recruiters.
We are Not accepting International Applicants.
Top Skills
Google Applications
Salesforce CRM
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The Company
What We Do
Blentech is a bay area based food technology company focused on developing equipment, systems and software for the safe, nutritious and consistent preparation of foods. Creatively blending the latest digital and physical technologies, our products deliver function, durability, sanitary design, safety and performance. Our experience in process engineering, automation, manufacturing and service, paired with proprietary manufacturing techniques, delivers superior processing technology at competitive prices. Blentech equipment and systems are built factoring in your specific process goals to design a solution that works for you. This allows our engineers to tailor a solution to your specific application. Blentech equipment is of unparalleled quality and maintains its functional value for decades while delivering product consistency and driving down operating costs.
