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Wholesale Sales Manager

Employer
Michael Page Sales
Location
England, South East England
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
12 Aug 2021

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



A superb opportunity to join a UK leading Bedding & Bath business looking to engage a Wholesale Sales Manager leading a team of Sales Exec's on delivering sales targets on their Hospitality customer base. Equally, with the sector scope to define, set and execute a channel plan through customer segmentation.

Client Details

A UK leading Bedding & Bath business with a vast range of products into the Consumer and B2B Hospitality through online delivery.

Description
  • Takes ownership for the delivery of the weekly sales and margin targets and the delivery of them across the team.
  • Creates clear weekly and monthly plans and tactics to deliver to budget, driving sales and margin.
  • Has a weekly and monthly focus on acquisition, retention and engagement opportunities for the business and reports accordingly.
  • Develops excellent relationships with key account decision makers building an understanding of purchasing patterns to stock forecasting.
  • Maintains a thorough knowledge of the competitive Wholesale landscape and uses this to maximise sales, developing tactical and strategic ideas.
  • Uses knowledge to support tactical trading decisions, develop key strategies and set the rate card(s) for the department.
  • Develops new business leads through cold call, business leads, exhibition leads and own market research.
  • Develops tactics to pin point key decision maker to facilitate conversion to a customer.
  • Manages and monitors the team to ensure key SLA's are maintained and takes action accordingly to improve key issues.
  • Creates processes to manage key tasks across the department to manage workload and deliver a best in class experience for our Business customers.
  • Keeps team up to speed on new business opportunities and key decision making.


Profile
  • Proven experience in Sales ideally B2B within a retail environment
  • Sales team management
  • Experience in defining and executing a channel plan through sector segmentation
  • Excellent sales and customer service experience essential
  • Relevant experience of a retail organisation within a store or head office environment
  • Experience within a wholesale retail business ideal but not obligatory
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Good time management
  • Good level of presentation and negotiation skills


Job Offer

£35,000 to £40,000 base salary + OTE + 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

Join in the discussion in our LinkedIn group Michael Page Sales - UK

 

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