Sales & Marketing Director

Sales & Marketing Director

Based Home / Bristol site c2-3 days / week

Salary DOE plus package

Our client: 

• Family-owned food producer with portfolio of lovely award-winning chilled products
• With a huge amount of heritage and state-of-the-art production facilities
• Has strong foothold in the UK market and exports to more than 40 countries.
• Now seek to recruit a Sales & Marketing Director to join the team and help shape the future of the business.

The role: 

• Reporting to the Managing Director, the Sales & Marketing Director will be responsible for directing and leading the company’s sales vision, mission and strategic development plan for the UK & International Markets  
• Oversee effective sales management of retailers, end users, distributors and sales partners, both existing and identifying new routes
• As Sales & Marketing Director you will also be responsible for defining the marketing strategy and delivering added value innovation at the premium end of the market
• You will lead, develop and motivate a team of c10 Sales & Marketing professionals
• The nature of the business means that this is a hands-on role and the individual must be prepared to liaise cross functionally to ensure that opportunities are ‘landed’ and delivered to the standard required by the customer

Ideal candidate: 

• You will already be operating at Sales & Marketing Director ready for a fresh challenge OR an outstanding Account / Channel / Grocery Controller OR International Sales Lead role ready for the next step
• Be a natural leader
• Ideally you will have customer experiences both UK & Internationally through sales agents & distributors
• Be commercially astute with a strong negotiation track record; comfortable in the numbers and managing the overall strategy
• Skilled working with cross functional team members by adopting a collaborative working style is crucial
• Organised, methodical, analytical and proactive with strong influencing skills
• Finally, you must have a passion for food and desire to work in added value chilled food category

Please send your CV using the form on this page, quoting reference 8/16355/7. Confidentiality assured.

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