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Area Sales Representative

Employer
Michael Page Sales
Location
England, Leicestershire
Salary
£23000 per annum + company car + commission
Closing date
23 May 2017

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

Job Details



This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-established Home & Leisure Consumer Company as an Area Sales Representative. In this role you will be responsible for representing a creative and innovative range of home & leisure consumer products within the independent retail and wholesale channel.



Client Details

Our client produce a range of consumer products spanning across housewares, kitchenware, pet care, stationery, Christmas, baby & nursery categories. The business are constantly keeping up to date with their innovative and creative product range and pride themselves on their first class customer service and product quality.

The company have been established for over 50 years and have a presence both in the UK and worldwide. They are growing consistently and only have bigger plans for the future!



Description

The business are looking for an experienced, committed and passionate sales individual to join their team. As the Area Sales Representative you will be responsible for an account base of just over 100 independent wholesalers and retailers. The Area Sales Representative role is predominantly account management; whilst driving growth across your existing accounts you will seek new business in order to consistently grow the area too.

The role is extremely autonomous and will allow you the freedom to manage your own diary and accounts. You will have experience within a field sales role, ideally selling in to the independent retail or wholesale channel.



Profile

Key skills and experience required:

  • Experience within field sales and journey planning in order to maximise the potential of your territory
  • Ideally experienced within the independent wholesale/retail channel
  • Proven track record of increasing sales across an existing account base
  • Strong rapport building skills
  • Self-driven and motivated in order to work autonomously
  • Dedicated, committed and enthusiastic approach
  • Commercially aware with good numerical skills
  • Full, clean driving license






Job Offer

  • Basic salary up to £23k (dependant on experience)
  • Company car
  • Monthly commission




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

Join in the discussion in our LinkedIn group Michael Page Sales - UK

 

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