Head of European Sales / UK General Manager - B-2-B, fast-growth ambitious overseas business
- Employer
- Food Industry Associates
- Location
- Home based contract requiring travel across UK and Europe.
- Salary
- £60,000 - £90,000 + bonus + benefits package
- Closing date
- 11 Apr 2019
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- National Accounts, Sales
Job Details
As an overseas food processor, our client has quickly become the business of choice for quality ingredients supplied to many of the UK’s entrepreneurial, health focussed, food and beverage manufacturers.
As a result of significant double-digit growth across their European customer portfolio, they have asked us to help them identify an experienced and driven B-2-B expert to help set up their first ever UK commercial presence, whilst driving European sales opportunities also. With plans and budget agreed to develop an established UK business unit, this role presents a great opportunity for a driven individual to demonstrate their capability and establish themselves at leadership levels within a business projecting rapid growth.
In order to be considered for the role it is essential that applicants are able to demonstrate a successful record whilst driving profitable sales with recognised food manufacturing businesses. Exposure to large manufacturing groups including 2SFG, Greencore, Samworth Bros and Bakkavor alongside any less mature, but fast-growth healthy snacking and/or beverage manufacturers will hugely support your application.
Alongside a successful record, you will have a level experience that allows you to succeed in a highly autonomous role where you will have input in to strategy and be given a great deal of ‘freedom’ to ‘get on with the job’.
With the hugely ambitious plans they have in place, the business will clearly be able to offer swift development opportunities to the successful candidate. All we need to do now is identify them!
Make no mistakes, this role requires somebody with significant drive and ambition, and will at times require travel across Europe as well as the UK. So, if you believe you’re the right candidate and confident you can demonstrate this to both ourselves and our client, we’re keen to hear from you – please get in touch via the details provided.
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.
- Website
- http://www.foodindustryassociates.com/
- Telephone
- 0113 3572245
- Location
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Food Industry Associates Ltd
Airebank House
419 Kirkstall Road
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS4 2EZ
GB
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