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Sales Administrator

Sheffield
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Job ID 1058748 Job category Legal Hours per week 37.5 Closing date 29-10-2025 Salary £24,570

Sales Administrator  
£24,570 plus excellent benefits (Work Level 6C) 

3 weekday evening shifts between 11:15am and 7:15pm (plus one in three Saturdays)
Sheffield – you’ll spend your initial 3-month training period in the office, then you’ll have the chance to work in a hybrid way dividing your time between home and the office.

We’re looking for a motivated and customer-focussed Sales Administrator to join our growing Estate Planning team at Co-op Legal Services. You don’t need a legal background to succeed in this role, making this a great opportunity to grow your skills within an innovative and ethical business.

As a business, we’re passionate about developing our colleagues. You’ll gain hands on experience within a legal setting, have access to ongoing training, build foundational knowledge in succession planning, and develop your customer service skills. As we continue to expand our team and invest in new technology, there’s never been a more exciting time to join.

You’ll play a key part in helping us deliver outstanding support to our colleagues, clients, and communities. You’ll take on a variety of responsibilities, with a particular focus on managing consultants’ diaries and coordinating and responding to public enquiries.

What you’ll do

  • Collate and send the required and relevant documents to either our clients and/or our consultants, based remotely, in a timely and accurate fashion 
  • Deal with related queries from colleagues based remotely and make outbound calls to clients
  • Support with efficient diary management for our consultants, including contact with prospective clients.
  • Work closely with the team leaders to assess work and flag any governance concerns or issues
  • Support the team with general admin tasks and deal with general client queries including occasionally supporting the advisory team in taking inbound calls from clients
  • Conduct daily checks on processes and procedures to ensure a smooth and consistent client journey
  • Support the leadership team in briefing the wider advisory team on ways of working and signposting support resources for colleagues

This role would suit people who have

  • A working knowledge of Microsoft Outlook
  • The ability and self-motivation to work independently as well as part of a team
  • The ability to manage your own time and workload 
  • A keen eye for detail and accuracy
  • Good communication skills both on the phone and via email
  • The ability to building positive relationships with both colleagues and external parties

Why Co-op?

Here you’ll do work that matters. We’re a commercial organisation with a purpose beyond profit, you’ll have an opportunity to help us build a stronger Co-op and stronger communities. You’ll also get a package that includes:


•   Competitive salary
•   Coaching, training and support to help you develop
•   Pension with up to 10% employer contributions
•   Annual incentive scheme 
•   Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
•   28 days holiday (rising to 32 in line with service) plus bank holidays
•   Discounts on Co-op products and services

Building an inclusive work environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve. 

If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply. 

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process. 

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.

If you’re successful in your application, we’ll perform some background checks as part of our pre-employment screening process. These will include an SRA check, credit checks, and a DBS (disclosure and barring service) check. Please note Co-op does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.

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Benefits

  • Coaching, training and support such as study leave, to help you develop your skills and progress your career
  • Pension with up to 10% employer contributions
  • Incentive scheme up to 10% after probation
  • 28 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 32 in line with service)
  • Wellbeing benefits to support your physical financial and mental health
  • Discounts on Co-op products and services

Success profile

What makes a successful member of our team? Check out the top traits we're looking for and see if you have the right mix.

  • Team-work
  • Detail orientated
  • Organisation
  • Communication
  • Relationship-building
  • Adaptability

Your career at Co-op Legal Services

You’ll find career opportunities here whether or not you have legal qualifications. We offer a variety of routes into legal practice, a clear career progression framework, and early career options that provide a cost effective alternative to university.

We regularly recruit for qualified and non-qualified jobs, so whether you’re an experienced lawyer or someone who’s keen to explore the possibilities of a career in the law, you can make a difference here.

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Our practice areas

You’ll join our wills & trusts department which is set up differently to traditional private practice law firms. Being a specialist team means we often deal with cases of varying complexity, and can provide our clients with an expert service. We also have specialist Probate, Family law, estate planning, and medical negligence teams, so if you want to gain exposure in another area of law they’ll be opportunity to do so.

Probate is the legal and financial process of dealing with the property, money, and possessions of a person who has died. We help and support thousands of bereaved people and families, many of whom have been previously supported by Co-op Funeralcare.

At Co-op Legal Services our will writing advisors discuss our customers' wishes, offer guidance and help to make a will that’s right for their circumstances.

Family law solicitors offer a wide range of family law legal services to our customers. Our areas of practice range from family law and divorce to legal separation and child custody.

Every year, our personal injury solicitors and litigation lawyers secure millions of pounds in compensation through personal injury claims for people injured in accidents through no fault of their own.

Our medical negligence solicitors specialise in recovering compensation for patients who have suffered medical negligence and medical accidents caused by healthcare professionals.

Application process

At Co-op, we’re passionate about doing great work for the communities we trade in. That means having the right people, from all walks of life and backgrounds, in our team to serve them. Take a look below how to become one of our colleagues.

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If you pass the assessment your CV will be reviewed by our Talent Acquisition team. If you meet the essential criteria for the role your CV will be sent through to the hiring manager to review.

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Your decision

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