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Regional Account Executive - South East

Employer
McCain Foods
Location
Crawley, West Sussex
Salary
Competitive + company car + sales bonus + excellent benefits inc. up to 12% pension
Closing date
28 May 2022

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

Job Details

We are passionate about potatoes. But we’re even more passionate about our People!

For over 60 years we’ve been the number one branded player in frozen potato market. When it comes to bringing the nation together at mealtimes with simple, delicious and great tasting food we’re kind of a big deal!

You won’t just find us in supermarkets though. As well as owning a household retail brand, our respected foodservice business works in close partnership with distributors, chefs and caterers across thousands of the country’s pubs, restaurants, hospitals and schools.

Come and join our Foodservice team at McCain and help stamp out those soggy fries!

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Our Regional Account Executives (aka RAE’s) are part of our Foodservice team, and they’re on a mission to stamp out soggy fries, as well as introduce lots of culinary delights to pubs, bars, restaurants and so on across the UK (and in fact the World). 

It’s our RAE’s job to generate new sales opportunities through new business development by presenting our ranges across our McCain products. 

It’s a field based role covering the South East, ideally based in and around Crawley. Reporting into the Customer Development Manager you will also…

  • Be passionate about selling our range of products to existing and new customers. Taking advantage of your product and culinary knowledge to provide the right solutions to the business. 
  • Identify and hunt for new business opportunities within your territory.
  • Actively build a network and engage with sales reps within our distribution network to support the selling of our products through our distributors/wholesalers.
  • Use of Salesforce to capture your customer visits/details/wins.

 

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR…

This role is a great springboard into a career within Foodservice. There’s so many directions it could take your career within FMCG. 

We’re looking for someone who’s really hungry to progress. Who has bags of confidence to develop new business, but who also cares about giving great service and looking after our current customers. 

It’s a given you’ll love potatoes (you’ll be a big foodie!), but we’ll also love for you to have the following skills:

  • Strong communication, influencing and networking skills. 
  • Literacy and financially savvy. Be able to access and dissect a wide range of data. 
  • Good negotiation skills, as well as a confident, natural but persuasive selling ability. 
  • Strong time management including planning and organising. 
  • Be a self-motivator. Although you’ll be highly connected, you won’t be surrounded by your team daily so it’s important you can motivate yourself. 
  • A full clean UK driving licence, and confident about driving to new places. 

 

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

Although we do encourage you to taste the goods you’ll be pleased to know we don’t pay you in chips. For working hard, you’ll also get a great salary and some pretty good benefits including:

  • A company car
  • An excellent pension where we will pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay
  • Flexible holidays – where you can buy & sell up to 5 days holiday per year
  • Achievable personal and business performance based bonus
  • Private medical insurance scheme
  • Optional health cash plan
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • ‘Chips In’ Volunteering Day Off - to make a positive impact to the competitiveness, resilience, and long-term development of McCain communities across the globe
  • And of course, being part of a Global business there are great opportunities to shine/thrive should you wish to relocate in the future. We have an ambitious 5 year growth plan that presents development & progression opportunities for those who seek it out.

 

WHERE YOU’LL WORK…


This is a Home Based role covering the South East patch, ideally based in Crawley

Company

At McCain Foods we know the importance that food plays in people's lives - the power it has to uplift and bring people, families, businesses and communities together. Guided by our purpose - Celebrating real connections through delicious planet-friendly food - we believe that working together with our teams, business and community partners will bring sustainable growth and positive change - today, tomorrow and for generations to come.

As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in over 160 countries and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. Through our investment and innovation, we continue to be a global leader in prepared potato products, including our famous French Fries and appetisers. We are passionate about supporting and developing our people-providing opportunities to grow and learn in their roles, as well as building careers for the long term.

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