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Trade Sector/Field Sales Manager - Consumer Goods

Employer
Food Industry Associates
Location
Accessible to Bedfordshire - 2 days per week
Salary
Competitive basic salary + Excellent Bonus + Full benefits package
Closing date
11 Aug 2018

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Business Sector
Non Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
National Accounts, Retail Management, Sales

Job Details

A senior opportunity has arisen to join a fast-paced FMCG/consumer goods business viewed as a market leader within their respective category. The group turnover is in excess of £200 million across 3 sites where products are UK manufactured. Our client can offer a fast-paced, dynamic culture where people are valued and rewarded. They are able to demonstrate consistent growth over a sustained period of time. The business has very strong relationships with most major UK retailers including the top 4 grocers and the discount channel. The company are also established internationally across USA, Europe and Canada. Due to an internal promotion, a position has become available for a Trade Sales/Field Sales Manager to join the business.

As Trade Sales/Field Sales Manager you will have 5 direct reports under your leadership. The team work across the UK selling into a variety of customers including independent retailers, garden centres, small department stores and wholesalers. You will need to work strategically to implement a sales business plan for the account base. Part of the role may also involve managing your own customers to support the needs of the business. The role will include regular travel across the UK, you must be comfortable with this and enjoy working with the team/customer base. This person will provide regular sales reports, updates and forecasts to the Trade Controller.

In order to be considered for this fantastic opportunity you must have some experience of managing a sales team. Ideally having sold into similar customer so independent retail, garden centres or wholesalers. You will be operating in an FMCG environment, ideally a consumer goods/non-food category that means you will have transferable skills. The business can offer a great career path, personal development and a good level of autonomy. They always look to promote from within for individuals keen to progress. You must be tenacious, diligent and target driven.

Please forward a copy of your CV should you have relevant experience for the position.

Company

For over a decade now, Food Industry Associates Ltd have proven to be a recruiter of choice for ambitious SME food and beverage manufacturers across the UK.  We don't recruit for the big corporates by choice.  Instead, we choose to work with companies with personality, entrepreneurial flare (not process), looking to disrupt the market with cutting edge innovation to provide consumers with better, healthier choices.

Are you an early stage start-up struggling to find the right solution to help you gain your fist listings in a specific customer channel before you can raise the budget to employ somebody on a permanent basis?  Maybe you know you need to source a commercial leader but aren't 100% clear in what format, or how to adequately incentivise somebody from a much larger business to join your mission?  Come speak to us.

If you're a more established business looking to bring fresh talent on board to drive ambitious sales targets, source a creative innovator to help you drive in to new extended categories, or looking to strengthen in marketing / category terms, again, come speak to us.

We've a proven record in recruiting talent for an array of businesses, helping them source commercial talent to help them achieve their goals.  From early stage sales talent through to equity-incentivised leadership roles, we've proven time and time again to find the right people for our clients at the first attempt.  

How are we different to most of our competitors?  Unlike most, we don't have as diverse a portfolio of clients we work with.  However all those we do work with continuously come back to us whenever they next have another need.  In our opinion successful recruitment is achieved when two businesses truly 'partner' and collaborate together.  In our opinion the better we know you, the better we understand all the extra elements aside from simple skillset and experience to ensure the right 'fit' is identified at the first attempt.  In our opinion, this is recruitment, done properly.

Company info
Website
Telephone
0113 3572245
Location
Food Industry Associates Ltd
Airebank House
419 Kirkstall Road
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS4 2EZ
GB

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