Area Sales Manager

JR United Kingdom; Beauly; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food service provider is seeking an Area Sales Manager to work from home and cover East Scotland. This role focuses on building customer relationships and driving sales growth. Candidates should have field sales experience and be customer-focused. The position offers a competitive salary with bonus potential, a company car or allowance, and opportunities for career advancement.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Uncapped bonus potential

Company car or car allowance

Additional holiday purchase options

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in Field Sales.
• Self-motivated with a drive to succeed.
• Experience in adopting new technology in sales.

Responsibilities

• Build and leverage customer relationships in the independent sector.
• Grow and retain customers while delivering profitable volume growth.
• Partner with Business Development Manager for customer requirements.

Skills

Customer relationship building

Sales proficiency

Problem solving

Adaptability

Tools

Salesforce

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Area Sales Manager - Homebased / Field Sales – East Scotland/ Inverness

Competitive salary + great bonus, company car or car allowance & home-based contract

Here at Brakes, we’ve got ambitious growth plans. If you’re currently working in Field Sales or have the talent to match your ambition to thrive in the biggest and best Food Service sales force, and are passionate about forging a career in sales, we have a fantastic opportunity for an Area Sales Manager to join our Independent Sales Team.

Key Accountabilities

• Build and leverage strong customer relationships through a natural curiosity in the independent sector.
• Grow and retain customers, delivering profitable volume growth vs targets.
• Effectively partner with your customers to understand their plans for growth, adding value, offering a wide range of practical solutions and products.
• Understand competitor activity & proposals, ensuring you always offer your customers the best local solutions.
• Work proactively with the Business Development Manager to understand new customer requirements and ensure a successful handover.
• Act as a brand ambassador for Brakes in your local market.

You’re highly service-focused, putting the customer at the heart of everything you do, providing the best solutions to support and enhance their business. Tenacious and resilient, you’re a self-starter with the drive and determination to succeed and have demonstrable experience of delivering against targets. You’ll also be self-motivated to develop yourself continuously, leveraging & learning from a diverse range of skills & experience and various L&D programmes. There is an opportunity to progress into a wide range of commercial roles to develop your career.

You should be confident with our modernisation programme and the new technology we are adopting to improve customer experience and performance (experience with Salesforce, while not essential, would be advantageous).

In return, we offer a competitive base salary along with uncapped bonus potential, a home-based contract, a company car, additional holiday purchase options, and award-winning products at nearly cost price.

We’re looking for people who help us improve. We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates diversity. We want you to define our culture, not just fit into it. Bring your whole self to work. #BelongAtBrakes.

Why Brakes?

Our Purpose - Connecting the world to share food, and care for one another.

With our commitment to ethical & responsible sourcing and sustainability, coupled with our award-winning products, you will have the strength of the Brakes business behind you.