Head of Field Sales
- Employer
- Michael Page Sales
- Location
- England, Bristol
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 23 May 2019
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Sales
Job Details
The Head of Field Sales will lead a large Sales team, developing and managing relationships with Independents, Key Accounts and Wholesale in the South of the UK.
Client Details
Our client is a reputable, Global FMCG business.
Description
The Head of Field Sales for the South, will play a key role in helping to shape and deliver Commercial and Trade across Independents, Key Accounts and Wholesale. Leading a team of 10 Regional Business Managers and a further 100 field sales team members, the Head of Field Sales will seek to continually coach and develop their team, encouraging and influencing team members to reach their targets, goals, and ultimately their career objectives.
The successful candidate will collaborate and work closely with Trade Marketing teams to ensure the effective execution of projects and first-class customer service and satisfaction; the successful candidate will take overall accountability for the execution of all initiatives, brand objectives and sales targets for the South of the UK. Furthermore, the Head of Field Sales will build excellent internal and external stakeholder relationships, ensuring strong, collaborative alliances that are productive and open.
The successful candidate will take full commercial accountability for the region.
This is a field-based role, reporting into the Bristol Head Office. The ideal location for the candidate is along the M4 Corridor.
Profile
The successful candidate will:
- Have a proven sales leadership background within FMCG
- Have held P&L responsibility in excess of £50m
- Ideally have a proven track record in Independents, Wholesale and Convenience
- Will have lead Regional Sales Managers or equivalent
- Have a strong commercial track record
- Have a strong, working knowledge of Trade Marketing
- Will be charismatic
- Will be passionate about people development
- Will have strong, proven stakeholder management skills
- Have demonstrable, excellent communication skill
Job Offer
Competitive Salary + Bonus + Comprehensive Benefits 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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