Trade Customer Support Executive
| Posting date: | 23 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 February 2026 |
| Location: | Hertfordshire, SG6 1LU |
| Company: | Autoglym |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ORG6475-AH1483794LetTCSE |
Summary
We are Autoglym...With our products now being sold in over 45 countries, we’re proud to honour our traditions with some of the world’s most famous and cherished car brands.
We understand car valeting and cleaning innovation better than anyone. In our own laboratories, testing facilities and manufacturing site we strive to create the finest vehicle care products on the planet. By surrounding ourselves with forward thinking attitudes, as long as there’s vehicles to clean, our team will never stop innovating.
We’re looking for a Trade Service Support Executive to join our Commercial team at Autoglym where they will be supporting our Trade division across the UK and helping us deliver an exceptional service to our customers and internal colleagues.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys working with people, takes real pride in their work, and wants to grow into a future Key Account Manager role.
Our Trade division supports a huge variety of customers across sectors including automotive, bus, haulage, rail and more. Strong relationships and consistent service are essential to our growth plans, and that’s where you come in!
You’ll work closely with our Head of Trade and Key Account Managers to ensure our customers receive the very best experience. In doing so, you’ll enable our KAM team to focus on business development and new opportunities, while you help keep the engine running smoothly behind the scenes.
This role is truly varied, expect a mix of customer‑facing work, data and reporting, relationship‑building, and coordination across multiple teams.
You will:
Support the Head of Trade with day‑to‑day administration, reporting and project activity
Work closely with Key Account Managers to handle customer queries, deliver packs, and assist with KPI and trend analysis
Build strong relationships with customers across the UK through regular visits and ongoing communication
Assist with new business launches,attending sites, supporting training, ensuring smooth roll‑outs
Produce monthly performance reports, customer packs and sales pipeline updates
Use CRM and internal systems to maintain accurate data
Coordinate with departments including IT, Legal, Technical, Engineering, Customer Account Support, Marketing and Planning
Support the preparation of tenders, presentations and insights for partnership meetings
Attend trade shows, customer meetings and site visits as required
Represent Autoglym with professionalism, curiosity and a customer‑first mindset
This is a home based role, but will have significant amounts of UK (and as such, comes with a car allowance). This will vary, sometimes 1 or 2 days per week, other times 3 weeks out of 4. You’ll need to be flexible and comfortable travelling nationally across the UK and ideally be based centrally with access to good transport links.
What we are looking for:
Skills & experience
Strong analytical skills, able to interpret KPIs and translate BI data into customer‑friendly reports
Excellent communication skills
Experience working with customers and stakeholders at all levels
Good planning, prioritisation and organisational capability
Presentation skills and the confidence to support customer meetings
Commercial awareness and a genuine interest in understanding customer needs
Attributes
Professional yet personable
Detail‑focused, diligent, and trustworthy with sensitive data
A self‑starter who takes ownership and manages their own workload
Curious, creative and open to change
A team player who collaborates well and shares information
Someone who wants to learn and develop, particularly into a future Key Account Manager role
As well as an exciting opportunity, what does Autoglym have to offer?
Holiday entitlement starts at 25 days (pro rata); if you need a little extra... you can buy some more
A defined contribution pension scheme available for all staff
Hopefully never needed, but from day one you will be covered by our life assurance scheme
Occupational Sick Pay and an onsite Occupational Health Service
Confidential 24-hour life management and personal support service for you and your family
Free eye tests are available for all employees
A paid day off each year to take part in our volunteering scheme
Don’t worry about getting parked...we have free car parking at all our sites
We offer long service awards to all our employees
Learning and Development - training and development support, no matter where you are in your career
A variety of social events across the group, including the company Christmas party.
It might be a long way off but we know it’s not always easy to stop working so we provide advice and support to ease the transition to retirement.
So who are Autoglym? We’re a leading British manufacturer of premium vehicle care and valeting products. Since 1965, we’ve been talking, listening and delivering to discerning and diverse customers in over 45 countries: continually evolving and shaping the finest range of automotive care products on the planet and taking them to market in the best possible way.
Head to our Life_at_Autoglym and Life_at_altro Instagram pages to find out more about #LifeAtAutoglym, #LifeAtAltro and #ThePeopleBehindTheProduct
Everyone is welcome at Autoglym for who they are, no matter what their background is or how they identify. We appreciate that everyone is different and with that diverse uniqueness we can all thrive. “We don’t want you to just work here. We want you to belong here.”
Sounds exciting right? Click apply today!
We understand car valeting and cleaning innovation better than anyone. In our own laboratories, testing facilities and manufacturing site we strive to create the finest vehicle care products on the planet. By surrounding ourselves with forward thinking attitudes, as long as there’s vehicles to clean, our team will never stop innovating.
We’re looking for a Trade Service Support Executive to join our Commercial team at Autoglym where they will be supporting our Trade division across the UK and helping us deliver an exceptional service to our customers and internal colleagues.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys working with people, takes real pride in their work, and wants to grow into a future Key Account Manager role.
Our Trade division supports a huge variety of customers across sectors including automotive, bus, haulage, rail and more. Strong relationships and consistent service are essential to our growth plans, and that’s where you come in!
You’ll work closely with our Head of Trade and Key Account Managers to ensure our customers receive the very best experience. In doing so, you’ll enable our KAM team to focus on business development and new opportunities, while you help keep the engine running smoothly behind the scenes.
This role is truly varied, expect a mix of customer‑facing work, data and reporting, relationship‑building, and coordination across multiple teams.
You will:
Support the Head of Trade with day‑to‑day administration, reporting and project activity
Work closely with Key Account Managers to handle customer queries, deliver packs, and assist with KPI and trend analysis
Build strong relationships with customers across the UK through regular visits and ongoing communication
Assist with new business launches,attending sites, supporting training, ensuring smooth roll‑outs
Produce monthly performance reports, customer packs and sales pipeline updates
Use CRM and internal systems to maintain accurate data
Coordinate with departments including IT, Legal, Technical, Engineering, Customer Account Support, Marketing and Planning
Support the preparation of tenders, presentations and insights for partnership meetings
Attend trade shows, customer meetings and site visits as required
Represent Autoglym with professionalism, curiosity and a customer‑first mindset
This is a home based role, but will have significant amounts of UK (and as such, comes with a car allowance). This will vary, sometimes 1 or 2 days per week, other times 3 weeks out of 4. You’ll need to be flexible and comfortable travelling nationally across the UK and ideally be based centrally with access to good transport links.
What we are looking for:
Skills & experience
Strong analytical skills, able to interpret KPIs and translate BI data into customer‑friendly reports
Excellent communication skills
Experience working with customers and stakeholders at all levels
Good planning, prioritisation and organisational capability
Presentation skills and the confidence to support customer meetings
Commercial awareness and a genuine interest in understanding customer needs
Attributes
Professional yet personable
Detail‑focused, diligent, and trustworthy with sensitive data
A self‑starter who takes ownership and manages their own workload
Curious, creative and open to change
A team player who collaborates well and shares information
Someone who wants to learn and develop, particularly into a future Key Account Manager role
As well as an exciting opportunity, what does Autoglym have to offer?
Holiday entitlement starts at 25 days (pro rata); if you need a little extra... you can buy some more
A defined contribution pension scheme available for all staff
Hopefully never needed, but from day one you will be covered by our life assurance scheme
Occupational Sick Pay and an onsite Occupational Health Service
Confidential 24-hour life management and personal support service for you and your family
Free eye tests are available for all employees
A paid day off each year to take part in our volunteering scheme
Don’t worry about getting parked...we have free car parking at all our sites
We offer long service awards to all our employees
Learning and Development - training and development support, no matter where you are in your career
A variety of social events across the group, including the company Christmas party.
It might be a long way off but we know it’s not always easy to stop working so we provide advice and support to ease the transition to retirement.
So who are Autoglym? We’re a leading British manufacturer of premium vehicle care and valeting products. Since 1965, we’ve been talking, listening and delivering to discerning and diverse customers in over 45 countries: continually evolving and shaping the finest range of automotive care products on the planet and taking them to market in the best possible way.
Head to our Life_at_Autoglym and Life_at_altro Instagram pages to find out more about #LifeAtAutoglym, #LifeAtAltro and #ThePeopleBehindTheProduct
Everyone is welcome at Autoglym for who they are, no matter what their background is or how they identify. We appreciate that everyone is different and with that diverse uniqueness we can all thrive. “We don’t want you to just work here. We want you to belong here.”
Sounds exciting right? Click apply today!