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Business Development Manager

Employer
Michael Page Sales
Location
England, South Yorkshire, Sheffield
Salary
£28000 - £32000 per annum
Closing date
2 Jan 2017

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

Job Details





This is an opportunity for a Business Development Manager to help grow and develop our clients account base alongside the support of internal functions.



Client Details



Our client is one of the UK leaders supplying a wide range of products into the Food Service Sector, including restaurants, leisure sectors and Education. They are looking to expand their sales team due to successful growth across their business. Their culture is innovate, progressive and rewarding and are now looking to bring on board an experience Business Development Manager to work alongside their Field Sales Manager



Description

  • Achieve sales and margin targets based on a commercial plan
  • Win & retain profitable new business in line with company standards.
  • Grow retained customer numbers to achieve agreed standards
  • Have an effective journey plan to ensure appropriate level of regular contact to achieve targets with planned objectives and outputs for each call
  • Work with internal departments and suppliers to sell for more, buy for less and minimise costs
  • Drive agreed company campaigns and support agreed focus to meet customer and company targets
  • Work closely with Call Centre to ensure compliance, retention and delivery of company campaigns
  • Utilise Vecta for all activity, outputs and planning. Full understanding of sales and margin performance v targets for portfolio and by customer


Profile



To have experience of working within food service sector, ideally winning and growing new & existing business. Product knowledge and awareness. Organised, planned, PC literate able to work to targets, deadlines and under pressure. Able to build external & internal relationships and negotiate with sound commercial awareness



Job Offer
  • To work for a rewarding and progressive Food Service Business with internal functions ready to support the Business development Manager
  • A comparative salary and bonus structure
  • A competitive package
  • To be part of a successful team


Company

Michael Page Sales UK is a leading professional recruitment consultancy covering permanent, interim and contract recruitment. We have UK wide coverage with ten offices located in London, Weybridge, Reading, Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester, St Albans, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow. The core markets we serve are Consumer, Business Services, Media, IT/Telco, Financial Services, Healthcare and Technical Sales, with a dedicated person or team in each location specialising in each of these sectors. The clients we work with are as diverse as the candidates we represent; from Blue Chips to SMEs, and Sales Execs to Sales Directors. Our Consultants are typically from relevant sales backgrounds giving first hand experience of the roles we recruit for. We pride ourselves on delivering unrivalled service levels to our candidates and our clients, our track record of success over the past 20 years means we stand out.

Within our Consumer Sales Division we have consultants within each of the 10 offices who dedicate themselves to this sector and no other. Our specialist capability is demonstrated further as we focus on sub sectors such as food, drink, household, foodservice, consumer electronics, apparel, health & beauty, consumer healthcare, pet and sports. Some of our key clients include Colgate, Beiersdorf, Dr Oetker, Johnson & Johnson, Matthew Clark, PZ Cussons, Kellogg’s, 2 Sisters, Samsung, Seven Seas, Twinings, Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, SC Johnson, Warburtons, InBev, Kettle Chips, Hallmark, Luxottica, McCain, Britvic, General Mills, and Molson Coors to name but a few!

Michael Page Sales UK is part of Michael Page International with operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. As well as looking for high quality candidates for our clients, we are also always looking for top talent to work for us

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