Part-time contractor · Remote, based in Gauteng · About 40 hours a month to start
AmpX sells professional energy loggers, power quality analysers and Rogowski coils to electricians, solar installers, energy consultants and facility managers across South Africa. We keep stock locally, ship through Pudo, and our customers range from one-man electrical contractors to large industrial sites.
We’re a small team, and right now too much of the South African side runs through one person in Germany. We’re looking for someone in Gauteng to take over the day-to-day: answer enquiries, send quotes, phone customers, and make sure paid orders get out the door.
This isn’t a generic virtual assistant job. You’ll own the customer from first enquiry to shipped order.
What you’ll do
- Reply to every new enquiry that comes in by email, website form, WhatsApp or phone, usually within a few hours
- Create quotes in Odoo using our written procedures and website prices
- Phone customers to follow up on quotes. This is a big part of the job
- Process paid orders and book Pudo shipments together with our logistics person in Gauteng
- Answer the AmpX South Africa number during business hours
- Later on: rental quotes, product demos for customers in Gauteng, and a short weekly numbers update
You won’t be setting prices, handling the bookkeeping or packing boxes. Those sit with other people.
Who we’re looking for
- At least two years in sales admin, internal sales or operations at a small business. Electrical, solar or industrial supply is ideal
- You live in Gauteng and have your own car and driver’s licence, for in-person training at the start and occasional customer demos
- You’re comfortable picking up the phone and chasing a quote with someone you’ve never spoken to
- Fluent English. Afrikaans is a real plus; a lot of our installers prefer it
- You can work on your own from written procedures, and you’ll tell us when a procedure is wrong instead of quietly working around it
- Your own laptop, phone and an internet connection that survives load shedding
Nice to have: experience with any ERP or CRM (Odoo, Sage, Xero, HubSpot). Some feel for electrical basics like three-phase supplies, CTs and kWh. None of these are deal-breakers. We’ll teach you Odoo and the products.
The details
- Hours: around 40 hours a month to start, Monday to Friday, reachable during SA business hours. We expect this to grow
- Pay: R160–R200 per hour depending on experience, plus 3% commission on the orders you win, excluding VAT
- Setup: independent contractor, working from home in Gauteng. You’ll train in person with our logistics person at the start, and later run occasional customer demos in Gauteng
- We provide: the business phone number, email account, Odoo access and all software licences
- Start: as soon as possible, with a 60-day trial period
How to apply
Email info@ampx.co with the subject line AmpX SA – Internal Sales, and include:
- Your CV
- A few lines on why this role fits you. Write it yourself; we can tell
- Any experience you have with electrical, solar or metering products, even if it’s small
- Where in Gauteng you’re based
Shortlisted people get a 20-minute call, followed by a short paid task on a real (anonymised) customer enquiry. We’d rather see how you work than read about it.
Know someone who’d be good at this? Forward them this page. A lot of our best customers came through word of mouth, and we suspect the right person for this job will too.