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Sales Manager - East or West Midlands based

Employer
Muller UK & Ireland
Location
East or West Midlands based
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
7 Nov 2014

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

Job Details

Your challenge:

We already deliver more than 30% of the fresh milk consumed in the UK every day but we’ve big ambitions to do better. Great sales management plays a big part in our plans. Now our commercial team, needs another talented Sales Manager to drive up sales and profit among new and existing customers. You will also work closely with the operations team to spot opportunities to increase cost efficiency, whilst improving customer service…two key elements of our commercial strategy. You will:

• Grow sales in the current customer base and cold call and convert potential new  customers
• Promote the Muller-Wiseman brand and introduce and promote added value products
• Conduct monthly reviews of your customer portfolio using “methods of  improvement” and build productive customer relationships
• Manage price negotiations and use category management information to develop  dairy business

Key skills & experience:

This is a creative sales opportunity for a determined and “can do” sales professional who can think outside the box to build business. You must have:

• Excellent time management, prioritising, planning and numeracy skills
• Experience of dairy industry products and understanding of the market
• Well-developed presentation, negotiation, relationship-building and account  management skills plus a full UK driving licence
• IT literacy including MS Excel and PowerPoint

Who could refuse a chance to help build sales of our popular products? Certainly not you, if you’re the kind of Sales Manager we’re looking for.

Company

Müller UK & Ireland Group

Müller UK & Ireland Group is wholly owned by the Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller. It has 19 sites nationwide and employs almost 6,000 people across four business units: Müller Dairy, Müller Wiseman Dairies, Müller Minsterley and TM Telford.

Based in Market Drayton, Müller Dairy is the UK’s leading yogurt manufacturer, with major brands such as Müller Corner, Müllerlight and Müller Rice.

Müller Wiseman Dairies processes and delivers around 30% of the fresh milk consumed in Britain every day and is famous for its black & white cow-print branding. In December 2013, the business formally opened a major new state of the art butter-making plant in Shropshire, with the capacity to produce up to 45,000 tonnes of salted, unsalted and lactic butter each year.

Müller Minsterley is our facility near Shrewsbury at which chilled desserts including Cadbury Mousse, Trifle and Twin-pot products are made which Müller sells under license from Cadbury.

TM Telford is a state of the art yogurt production facility in Telford, Shropshire which is focused on the development of the company’s presence in the UK private label yogurt market.

To make its range of dairy products, the company buys milk from more than 1,200 British dairy farmers, all of whom are Red Tractor Farm Assured.

Müller Wiseman Milk Group Dairy members elect a representative farmer board which works with the company to discuss milk supply issues, including the Group’s commitment to maintain a competitive milk price and contractual position.

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