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Sales Director UK

Employer
Advocate Group
Location
Homebased 
Salary
Competitive Remuneration
Closing date
4 Oct 2018

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

Job Details

Sales Director UK

Salary: Competitive Remuneration

Location:  Homebased 

Sector/Industry: FMCG/Outdoor, Camping and Caravanning Industry

Job Reference: NP 79592 

In Oase Outdoors (Outwell®, Easy Camp® and Robens®), we are passionate about Outdoor Living!

Are you? And do you aspire to grow a UK sales market with a progressive, ambitious and global growing business?

Then you might be the Sales Director we are looking for.

Oase Outdoors is a multi-million pound turnover FMCG business and a leader in the European camping and outdoor Industry.

We offer you an opportunity to work in a fast paced environment where everyone fully engage themselves.

We are looking to appoint a Sales Director to join our global organisation and to develop our business with UK's leading retailers within outdoors. 

As a person you are an enthusiastic and aspirational Sales Director with a proven track record of growing and managing key accounts within the Outdoor, Camping and Caravanning Industry.

You prove yourself able to both develop existing customers and open up new accounts.

You might currently hold a position as Sales Director National/Regional, Sales Manager or Head of Sales position or corresponding with an appetite to lead a team to successes within the UK Outdoor, Camping and Caravanning Industry.

Oase Outdoors is based within Europe and this exciting opportunity is a homebased role in UK.

You will report to the CEO and lead the UK sales team to delivering success.

This exciting opportunity requires you to work with leading UK retailers within outdoor, camping and caravanning to drive the business forward and achieve the company’s growth plans. For this role you must have experience of demonstrating Account Management with national key accounts across Independents, Mass Market and Specialist Chain sales channels. 

The role offers an ambitious environment as well as a clear business plan offering an exciting career. The team are all passionate about the 3 brands Outwell®, Robens® and Easy Camp® and the culture is very much collaborative and supportive. This company offers an attractive benefit package such as home working, company car, pension, bonus and much more.  

Primary responsibilities:

  • Understand the UK market fully both in the Outdoor, Camping and Caravanning Industry and general trading patterns to be able to develop new business forwards
  • Strategic Analysis of sales figures to guide the sales to achieve budget turnover
  • Responsible for the UK Sales team
  • Develop the sales team and motivate them to achieve growth plans
  • Manage and develop Key Accounts in the UK
  • Make sales agreements with potential new larger customers
  • Ensure the Sales Team is fully trained and experienced in the use of Targit/CRM

The successful candidate:

  • Leadership and Management experience
  • Driven, passionate, ambitious, hungry to deliver success
  • Experience within the Outdoor, Camping and Caravanning Industry
  • Account management experience with Independents, Mass Market and Specialist Chain Nationals
  • Account management and new business development experience
  • Proven track record of senior level field sales experience
  • Excellent commercial acumen
  • Strong market relations
  • Strategic thinker
  • Cross functionally working
  • Excellent time management and organisational skills
  • IT literate: Excel, PowerPoint, Targit and CRM

Package:

  • Salary: Competitive Total Remuneration
  • Working hours: 37 hours per week

To apply directly please click apply below.

Whilst we will always endeavour to respond to you, due to the high levels of applications we receive this isn’t always possible. If you are not contacted within 3 working days, you have unfortunately not been shortlisted for this role. 

Please note The Advocate Group is acting as an employment agency & business.  Any direct or third party applications will be handled by The Advocate Group.

Company

We are a leading recruitment partner to the FMCG and consumer product sectors. Brand advocate representation, with a focus on inclusive hiring, is central to our ethos and ethics.

As talent partner to some of the most exciting global names, innovators, and challenger brands, we have a proven track record of not only sourcing top talent, but improving employer brand, candidate journey, and talent acquisition strategies. Our specialist consultants plug directly into your brand to act as your talent team, or work alongside your existing talent function. 

Being consumer product-centric means that our candidate and client partners can draw on our deep networks, proven processes, and highly trained talent specialists. 

Our aim is to: identify, engage, assess, and provide exceptional consumer product talent, always with the candidate journey at the forefront of mind.

What Do We Offer?

  • 3:1 interview-to-placement ratio.

That means that, for every three candidates we have out on interview, one is getting the job.

  • 96% employee retention.

Our retention rate is market leading – 96% of the people that we place are still with that organisation at least 12 months later.

  • 92% right-first-time shortlists.

Of the placements we make in roles that we work exclusively (which is the vast majority), 92% are hired from our hired from our first shortlist.

  • 28 days average time to hire.

From briefing to offer, our average turnaround time is 28 days.

Our Recruitment Solutions:

Search & Selection | Project Recruitment | Embedded Talent | Executive Search | Contract Recruitment | Market Mapping

Contact Us Today to Discuss Your Next Recruitment Project:

📞 0333 772 7200
📩 workwithus@advocate-group.co.uk
💻 https://www.advocate-group.co.uk/

Company info
Website
Telephone
0333 772 7200
Location
The Advocate Group
No. 1 Spinningfields, WeWork
Quay Street
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M3 3JE
GB

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