Sales Specialist - Draught Dispense (Home Counties or London)
- Employer
- Carlsberg UK
- Location
- Home Counties or London
- Salary
- £Competative + Generous benefits
- Closing date
- 15 May 2016
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Sales
Job Details
Sales Specialist - Draught Dispense
£Competitive + Trimester and Annual Bonuses + Car or £5,000 car allowance + Phone + Ipad + Laptop
Field Based - Home Counties or London
Your sales career to date is impressive. Now it's time to move it up a notch.
Do you have the commercial and financial savviness it takes to build a successful career with one of the UK's largest beer and beverage companies? Are you thirsty for the broader challenges your excellent sales skills deserve? Congratulations, you're in the right place.
You probably know us best for Carlsberg and Carlsberg Export. But, there's more to us than meets the eye. From Tetley's to Tuborg, San Miguel to Somersby Cider - we produce lots of leading brands. We also import premium world beers like Mahou, have an impressive portfolio of cask ales and source specialist wines and spirits from around the globe to delight our customers with. We're the Premier League's official beer too, not to mention our partnership with the UK's best festivals - Glastonbury and Download to name just a couple.
Right now, we're looking for talented sales professionals to wow our free trade customers - independent pubs, clubs and bars in their region.
Responsibilities of the Sales Specialist:
- Maximising sales growth and profit with new business customers through Draught Dispense solutions using customer facing sales tools and championing our service and customer proposition.
- Planning and documenting new business development on a regular systematic basis with all customers to maximise core brand, profit and distribution.
- Identifying, planning and opening an agreed number of prospect accounts at the budgeted volumes and profit margins within the geographical area
- Journey planning maximising efficiency and effectiveness and plan call time in accordance with the prescribed Customer callage requirements.
- Co-ordinating all relevant departments within Carlsberg UK, to ensure high customer satisfaction is delivered at all times with regards to Draught dispense
- Promotional activity to ensure the most profitable use of spend
- Achieving core brand distribution, volume targets and objectives
- Monitoring and reviewing loan performance/investments with customers and hold quarterly business reviews and create action plans as required
- Providing operational support for new business Draught solutions installations and to develop close working relationships with Independent Free Trade Sales Teams
Well organised yet flexible, your customer facing sales experience has given you excellent relationship building and new business prospecting skills. And, because some customers will be part of our loan scheme, the Sales Specialist will need to bring a good head for figures and business finance too. Someone who rises to the challenge of meeting and exceeding targets, your flair for making business critical decisions is second to none, as is your ability to keep the customer satisfied at all times.
On top of the culture and career development opportunities that make working with us so rewarding, we'll also give the Sales Specialist a company car (for which you'll need a clean driving licence). Oh, and a product allowance, flexible benefits including a generous bonus scheme and private medical insurance. So, what are you waiting for? The broader opportunities you crave with a world leader could be yours for the taking.
*Please note internally this position is known as Field Sales Representative. We may interview and offer candidates prior to the closing date, please apply today to avoid disappointment.
If you feel you have the skills and experience required for the Sales Specialist role, please click 'Apply' today.
Company
Carlsberg. To many we’re a famous Danish pilsner beer. To others, we make the best beer adverts ever, probably. To our colleagues, we’re so much more. We’re a brewer with 170-years of heritage and a reputation for making great beer at breweries across the world. We support this through continuous scientific innovation, centred at the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen, where the pH Scale was developed.
Alongside Carlsberg Pilsner, our enviable portfolio of beer brands includes Carlsberg Export, San Miguel, Tetley’s, Poretti and Brooklyn Lager. Some we brew, others we licence from our valued brewing partners Mahou, San Miguel and Brooklyn Brewery. We build these brands through iconic communications and sponsorship assets that include Glastonbury and Live Nation festivals, such as Reading, Leeds, Wireless and Latitude.
Above all else, we have a purpose and commitment to Brewing for a Better Today & Tomorrow, which is core to everything we do, from sales to sustainability. Carlsberg really is a great place to work. Internationally renowned brands, an exciting and stimulating environment and outstanding opportunities for personal development on a global stage. With such a diverse range of jobs and huge professional challenges, this is a place where passion and the desire to achieve really can make a difference.
Every day is different. Every day we look at new ways to perfect what we do and to be the best. And, it’s our people that are key to this. It’s a place where team means everything – yet every individual has the opportunity to shine. So on top of the culture and career development opportunities that make working with us so rewarding, we’ll also give you a product allowance, a flexible benefits scheme and generous holidays. So are you in the pursuit of something better and like what you’ve read so far? Then check out our current vacancies today.
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