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International Sales Manager

Employer
Advocate Group
Location
North West
Salary
Up to £60,000 per annum + bonus + car allowance + benefits
Closing date
21 May 2014

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Business Sector
Non Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
Sales

Job Details

Job Title: International Sales Manager

Location: North West

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 + Bonus + Benefits

Would you like to work for a global FMCG brand with a truly impressive heritage and market presence sold in over 80 countries? This organisation has a current requirement within their expanding Sales function for a International Sales Manager.

Key Responsibilities

Working with the Sales Director you will define the sales strategy for each of your designated distributor accounts. You will then be responsible for delivering the strategy and the agreed targets with full P&L responsibility for these accounts. 

You will manage these accounts day-to-day, prioritising internal and external deadlines and delivering on actions on time and complete, thus enabling effective delivery of the country plan and financial budgets. A key deliverable within the role is identifying new sales opportunities by channel and country and developing joint plans with the distributors to deliver maximised profitability and category growth.

You will communicate and influence Distributors to understand their business models, research requirements and develop the opportunity to deliver incremental business.

You will also assess the whole brands product range available to Distributors and work with the Sales Director, Marketing, R&D and other teams to ensure the company continues to meet the customer’s current and future needs.

The Ideal Candidate

You will have an established career history from within an Export Sales role where you have demonstrated achieving and sustaining profitable sales growth.  You will also have experience of managing a distributor model as well as how to plan and drive the agenda and build business relationships.

You will have advanced sales and negotiation skills whilst maintaining a strong business acumen and customer focus. You will have advanced planning and organisational skills and be a strong team player working cross multi functions internally and externally in a professional and positive manner.

Being fluent in; French, German, Italian or Spanish is desirable but not essential.

For more information on this excellent role, please contact Chris Dickenson on 0844 997 9700 or to apply click 'Apply now' below with current package details.

Due to the high volume of responses to online advertisements, regrettably we are only able to acknowledge successful applications. If you have not been contacted within 1 week, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

Company

We are a leading recruitment partner to the FMCG and consumer product sectors. Brand advocate representation, with a focus on inclusive hiring, is central to our ethos and ethics.

As talent partner to some of the most exciting global names, innovators, and challenger brands, we have a proven track record of not only sourcing top talent, but improving employer brand, candidate journey, and talent acquisition strategies. Our specialist consultants plug directly into your brand to act as your talent team, or work alongside your existing talent function. 

Being consumer product-centric means that our candidate and client partners can draw on our deep networks, proven processes, and highly trained talent specialists. 

Our aim is to: identify, engage, assess, and provide exceptional consumer product talent, always with the candidate journey at the forefront of mind.

What Do We Offer?

  • 3:1 interview-to-placement ratio.

That means that, for every three candidates we have out on interview, one is getting the job.

  • 96% employee retention.

Our retention rate is market leading – 96% of the people that we place are still with that organisation at least 12 months later.

  • 92% right-first-time shortlists.

Of the placements we make in roles that we work exclusively (which is the vast majority), 92% are hired from our hired from our first shortlist.

  • 28 days average time to hire.

From briefing to offer, our average turnaround time is 28 days.

Our Recruitment Solutions:

Search & Selection | Project Recruitment | Embedded Talent | Executive Search | Contract Recruitment | Market Mapping

Contact Us Today to Discuss Your Next Recruitment Project:

📞 0333 772 7200
📩 workwithus@advocate-group.co.uk
💻 https://www.advocate-group.co.uk/

Company info
Website
Telephone
0333 772 7200
Location
The Advocate Group
No. 1 Spinningfields, WeWork
Quay Street
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M3 3JE
GB

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