Regional Sales Manager - Education Sales
- Employer
- Michael Page Sales
- Location
- England, London
- Salary
- £27000 - £33000 per annum
- Closing date
- 5 Apr 2019
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- Business Sector
- Non Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Sales
Job Details
Focused on new business and account management to grow the territory selling into schools, universities and sports clubs.
Client Details
My client are a well known and reputable sports clothing brand who have great relationships with Universities, schools and sports clubs, internationally. They are passionate about quality over quantity and building long term relationships. The role will be home based and covering the South East, from Kent to London and Essex.
Description
The role of the Regional Sales Manager - Education Sales will be:
- To build and develop the sales territory assigned to you, as a Sales Manager, to achieve KPI's and Sales Budget by year end.
- To work alongside your customer service representative, to offer excellent service to all customers.
- Contribute ideas and suggestions to help the region grow, develop its service offering and achieve excellence.
- To handle any complaints, in a timely constructive manner, to resolve the issue in the best way for the company and the customer.
- To work remotely, in the field, to service customers across your territory.
- To arrange and manage samples from your assigned sample budget.
- To report to Regional Sales Manager on 'wins' and 'losses', monthly.
- Liaise with Regional Sales Manager and Sales Director on growth and short falls within the territory.
- Communicate effectively across the company.
- To manage diary effectively, to maximise use of the time in the field.
- To work outside 'office hours' to service all customers.
- To structure a sales plan and execute.
- Prepare and present sales pitches and tenders.
- Arrange regular visits to head office for CPD.
- Work alongside all departments within Kukri to help the development of the company, as a whole.
Profile
The successful Regional Sales Manager - Education Sales will be:
- Excellent communicator.
- Confident and people focused personality.
- Strives to meet targets and deadlines.
- Enthusiastic and self-motivated - a 'can do' attitude.
- Self-Starter - Uses Initiative.
- Strong team player/ leader.
- Be passionate about sport, relish accountability, unswerving in your commitment to deliver high standards and a leader of the Brand identity.
- Demonstrate a knowledge of systems and evidence of achieving continuously improved results against targets.
- Enthusiastic and responsive.
- Able to use Office - Word, Publisher, Powerpoint to deliver presentations and notes to peers in Regional Meetings.
Job Offer
Attractive basic salary, up to £33,000 + £4.5k car allowance
Year 1 bonus: up to £5k
Year 2 bonus: up to £10k
Pension
Healthcare
Laptop & phone
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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