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Sales Representative - Garden Centres

Employer
Cavendish Maine
Location
Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex
Salary
to £30,000. OTE £35,000, Nissan Qashqai, 25 days holiday, credit card
Closing date
28 Jul 2019

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

Job Details

  • Highly regarded and successful garden products supplier
  • Great products, strong brands and excellent customer service
  • Perfect opportunity for an experienced Sales Representative to develop their career

The Company:

A very well-established garden trade supplier that deals with most garden centres throughout the UK. The company offers strong brands and high performing products that make them a first-choice supplier to outdoor buyers – and it works with record sales growth this year. They are known for their packaging and eye-catching displays that positively effect sell-through.

The Role of Sales Representative:

Covering Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex the job holder will inherit a customer base of 100 established independent garden centres with annual sales value c£1 million. The brief is to grow sales to these and new customers. Specific responsibilities will include:

  • Planning and working to an effective journey plan that maximises customer contact time
  • Regular meetings with existing and prospect customers to build strong relationships
  • Identifying customer opportunities that will be met by your products and securing sales orders
  • Planning every sales appointment in order to achieve objectives
  • Driving sales growth and strong partnerships
  • Provide merchandising support to customers as required
  • Working within a team to communicate and share resources

The person for this Sales Representative opportunity:

We are looking for an experienced garden trade Sales Representative with a strong trade reputation and a proven track record of being able to build relationships in this trade. Specific criteria are:

  • Proven track record as a Sales Representative within the garden centre trade
  • Experience working with indoor / outdoor / gift or pet ranges
  • Living in Norfolk, Suffolk or Essex
  • A broad range of sales skills including prospecting, account management, negotiation and merchandising
  • Strong negotiation and objection handling skills
  • Empathy and the ability to build strong working relationships

An intelligent, articulate and numerate Sales Representative with great communication skills would be rewarded by a challenging and enjoyable working environment with significant opportunity for further progression.

Reward package:

As well as a salary to £30,000, the job holder will receive a Nissan Qashqai, company credit card, fuel card, ipad, phone, laptop and 25 days holiday.

Job reference:

NH/21912

For more information and to apply please contact Nick Hester at Cavendish Maine recruitment:  

Candidate care:

By responding to this advert, you consent to Cavendish Maine processing the personal data included within this application.

If your application is successful, we will contact you to discuss the opportunity in more detail, within 48 hours of receiving your application.

Should you not hear from us within 3 working days please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please be advised that if unsuccessful for this role we may keep your details in our hold file, during which time you may be contacted for other suitable vacancies.  If you do not want us to do this, please call us to advise.

In the meantime, we would like to thank you for your interest in Cavendish Maine.

Company

Established in 1991 Cavendish Maine is a specialist sales, marketing and management recruitment consultancy. Covering the whole of the UK, we work with suppliers of food and non-food products to retail, hospitality and leisure markets and our impressive client portfolio ranges from global brand leaders to fast growing private companies.

Our team is experienced, professional and knowledgeable and each consultant has a specific market focus. This means that we know our clients intimately and our candidates are well briefed and well prepared for all interviews. In addition we have one consultant who specialises in export and international roles and separate teams that bring the same recruitment processes to accountancy and financial services employers.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01275 813000
Location
Leigh Court Business Centre
Pill Road
Abbots Leigh
Bristol
BS8 3RA
GB

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