Area Sales Manager
- Employer
- Michael Page Sales
- Location
- England, Essex
- Salary
- £25000 - £32000 per annum
- Closing date
- 25 Aug 2017
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- Business Sector
- Non Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Sales
Job Details
Exciting new Area Sales Manager position with fast-paced growing international consumer business.
Client Details
Our client is a market leader in their industry and supply a range of consumer branded products across various retail and wholesale channels. They are an innovative business; constantly looking to grow and develop their product range as well as developing their people through long term, ambitious careers.
Description
Area Sales Manager:
- Drive improved customer sales growth and satisfaction through existing and new business development
- Achieve territory targets set in line with Channel target
- Customer base retention / new business opportunities
- Executing strategy as well as specific account plans
- Develop senior level relationships with all of your accounts
- Working and building relationships with key stores managers where applicable
- Ownership of product/service enhancement opportunities, working with internal teams to establish/improve
- Capturing repeat sales from existing customers
- Make decisions which will affect workload priorities to ensure targets are met
- Display openness and effectiveness through verbal and non-verbal behaviour
- Be energetic and committed to meeting targets
Profile
We are looking for an experienced business professional who is a natural leader and communicator with experience of servicing large corporate customers and independent businesses. Persuasive, you will have a proven record of success in a customer facing role and be able nurture and develop a successful sales territory.
This role is covering a territory including London (Inside the M25) , Essex and Suffolk. Successful Area Sales Manager must live in one of these areas.
Job Offer
£28,000 - £32,000 Basic Salary + Package
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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