BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER – FOOD INGREDIENTS
- Employer
- Clear Edge Search & Selection Ltd
- Location
- Southern England (Homebased)
- Salary
- Up to £45,000, car allowance, pension, bonus and holiday
- Closing date
- 25 Dec 2015
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- National Accounts, Sales
Job Details
Business Development Manager – Food Ingredients
Location – Southern England (Homebased)
Up to £45,000, car allowance, pension, bonus and holiday
A successful and well established UK supplier of food ingredients is seeking to recruit an experienced Business Development Manager to further develop its portfolio of food manufacturing and food service customers in the South of England. This opportunity would suit a highly motivated individual who is keen to play a major role in the growth of the business and develop new accounts in a largely underdeveloped territory.
Your Role:
The company offers a broad range of ambient, chilled and frozen ingredients for use by food manufacturers and food service providers. Your role is to help grow the business by developing new profitable customer accounts and increasing sales with the portfolio of existing customers in the south.
You will develop a new business strategy in collaboration with the senior management team. Your objective will be to identify and build relationships with procurement personnel and development chefs at prospective and existing customers in order to understand their ingredients requirements and identify sales opportunities for the company. You would also identify areas for potential product range extension based on customer demand.
Key Areas of Responsibility:
- Developing profitable sales in the Southern region
- Prospecting including the identification of potential customers, securing appointments and matching prospect needs with the companies offerings
- Selling including sales visits, winning sales, follow through, call and visit reports
- Liaising with the technical team to provide customers support and help resolve any issues
- Identifying market trends, gathering market intelligence and insights on competitor activity to make recommendations on the companies’ growth strategy
- Inputting on pricing strategy
- Providing input for marketing and customer communication
- Attending trade-shows to gather market intelligence
What is on Offer:
The business will provide you with the opportunity to become an influential member of the team with growth prospects to become a member of the senior management team. They offer an attractive benefit scheme that includes a car allowance, performance bonus, pension plan, laptop and company phone. The role is home based, but it is expected that you will spend one day per week on average in the company’s office in Worcestershire.
Qualifications and Experience:
You will have a successful track record in selling food ingredients or a related area to food manufacturers and food service companies in the south. You will have active relationships with procurement and development chefs in food manufacturers in the South that you can call on to promote the company’s product range. You will have excellent communication skills, be results driven, commercially astute, organised and proactive. You will need a full UK driving licence.
Please do not hesitate to apply if you feel you have the experience and background described.
Company
Clear Edge are an executive search and selection business, specialising in roles from middle management to Board level in FMCG and Retail sectors.
Recruiting high-calibre professionals across:
- Sales & Marketing
- Operations, Technical & Supply Chain
- Retail
Genuine experts in your sector:
- Food
- Drinks
- Health, Beauty & Household Products
- Consumer Durables
Our specialist consultants take a highly pro-active approach on behalf of their clients and candidates, with total commitment to service and results. Using our extensive market knowledge, unrivalled network of contacts and modern day recruitment techniques, we're here to give you the clear edge over the competition.
- Website
- http://www.ceselection.com/
- Telephone
- 0113 2054970
- Location
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Lister House
Lister Hill
Horsforth
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS18 5AZ
GB
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