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Sales Director

Employer
Food Industry Associates
Location
Home based contract with requirement to travel to Head Office and manage field based sales team.
Salary
£100,000 - £130,000 basic + executive benefits
Closing date
14 Dec 2012

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Business Sector
Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
National Accounts, Sales

Job Details

Our client is a much-loved manufacturer of household food brands familiar to us all.  Recognised for their heritage and strong association with natural and healthy product ranges, their brands hold significant presence among the shelves of all major grocery, convenience and discounter outlets across the UK.

Demonstrating healthy growth, recently supported by the acquisition of another well-known brand portfolio, the business offers a profitable and optimistic platform for future growth.

Following a recent internal promotion, the business is looking to appoint a new Sales Director.  Reporting directly to the Managing Director, the successful candidate will assume complete responsibility for sales strategy across the business.

Whilst leading a number of direct and indirect reports across different customer channels, you will be tasked with implementing sales strategy and plans to achieve annual profit targets in line with business objectives.

You will be required to drive market share across multiple categories by maximising development opportunities, working closely with the Marketing Director on key initiatives.

You will also be required to maintain and develop customer relations and influence category performance, whilst driving incremental sales turnover and profit growth.

In order to succeed in this role it is important that applicants have demonstrable success whilst operating within recognised branded food / beverage manufacturing arenas. 

Strong knowledge of grocery retail channels is vital, whilst an understanding of convenience and discounter channels would also prove supportive in your application.

A resilient and strong personality/character would be considered in a favourable light, with strong leadership qualities being of great importance.

If you believe you could add value to this exciting opportunity and are interested in learning more, please register your interest via the details provided.

Company

For over a decade now, Food Industry Associates Ltd have proven to be a recruiter of choice for ambitious SME food and beverage manufacturers across the UK.  We don't recruit for the big corporates by choice.  Instead, we choose to work with companies with personality, entrepreneurial flare (not process), looking to disrupt the market with cutting edge innovation to provide consumers with better, healthier choices.

Are you an early stage start-up struggling to find the right solution to help you gain your fist listings in a specific customer channel before you can raise the budget to employ somebody on a permanent basis?  Maybe you know you need to source a commercial leader but aren't 100% clear in what format, or how to adequately incentivise somebody from a much larger business to join your mission?  Come speak to us.

If you're a more established business looking to bring fresh talent on board to drive ambitious sales targets, source a creative innovator to help you drive in to new extended categories, or looking to strengthen in marketing / category terms, again, come speak to us.

We've a proven record in recruiting talent for an array of businesses, helping them source commercial talent to help them achieve their goals.  From early stage sales talent through to equity-incentivised leadership roles, we've proven time and time again to find the right people for our clients at the first attempt.  

How are we different to most of our competitors?  Unlike most, we don't have as diverse a portfolio of clients we work with.  However all those we do work with continuously come back to us whenever they next have another need.  In our opinion successful recruitment is achieved when two businesses truly 'partner' and collaborate together.  In our opinion the better we know you, the better we understand all the extra elements aside from simple skillset and experience to ensure the right 'fit' is identified at the first attempt.  In our opinion, this is recruitment, done properly.

Company info
Website
Telephone
0113 3572245
Location
Food Industry Associates Ltd
Airebank House
419 Kirkstall Road
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS4 2EZ
GB

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