Area Sales Manager

TN United Kingdom; Crawley; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a world-class, multi-award-winning field marketing agency as a full-time team member, representing a renowned portfolio of ice cream brands. You will play a pivotal role in enhancing brand performance and awareness across grocery retailers through strategic store visits and data-driven insights. This dynamic position offers the chance to build strong relationships, negotiate effectively, and drive sales while working within a supportive team environment. If you're passionate about making a difference and thrive in a fast-paced setting, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Company Car

Fuel Card

Tablet

Phone

Incentive Scheme

Pension

Life Assurance

30 days holiday

Healthshield Care Plan

Qualifications

• Experienced in Sales, ideally in Independents, Wholesale, and Convenience.
• Passion for building brand awareness and delivering results.

Responsibilities

• Visit grocery and convenience stores to build relationships with decision makers.
• Use data tools to improve product distribution and availability.

Skills

Sales Experience

Relationship Building

Data Analysis

Negotiation Skills

Communication Skills

Motivation by Results

Tools

iPad

Bespoke Software System

Job description

This role covers the following Territories: Brighton, Crawley, Eastbourne, Sevenoaks and Eastbourne.

Are you interested in working for a World Class Multi award-winning field marketing agency, who currently hold the title of Agency of the Year?

Do you like the idea of representing one of the biggest brands out there?

Then this could be the role for you…..

Your role as a full-time, permanent team member, will be representing the Ice Cream brands portfolio on behalf of Unilever namely Ben and Jerrys, Walls and Magnum to name a few.

As part of the Dee Set team, you will work with colleagues who are responsible for raising Unilever's ice cream brand's performance, awareness and availability across a wide mix of UK smaller-format grocery retailers. You will be the eyes and ears of the brand, carrying out retail store visits within a defined territory with responsibility for driving distribution, availability, sales and brand engagement to enhance both turnover and share for the brand using our data tools.

Responsibilities of the role:

• Visiting a mix of grocery and convenience stores to build and develop strong relationships with key decision makers, and to be recognised as adding value to the store.
• Leveraging our data tools to identify insights and implement targeted interventions that improve the distribution and availability of our product portfolio.
• Negotiation with key decision makers in store to ensure distribution and maximum availability for the Unilever Ice Cream brands to increase sales and availability, raising brand awareness and brand engagement with the retailers, and ensuring that agreed ranging and plans are maintained.
• Be the ‘eyes and ears' for the brand and Dee Set in-store by identifying problems, opportunities and both retailer and competitor intelligence.
• Strive to ‘Make a Difference' for our clients by following Dee Set's proven processes.
• Deliver a professional, efficient, and effective set of calls within every sales outlet.
• Accurately record and complete all information on iPad using a bespoke software system.

We'd love you to join our team if you are:

• Experienced in Sales and ideally have experience in the Independents, Wholesale and Convenience sector.
• Thrive working unaided and as part of a team.
• A great communicator who loves to build credible relationships in stores.
• A passion to build brand awareness to the highest standard and to be motivated by results.
• Deliver brilliant results at store executional level.
• Data driven and be able to analyse data to drive results.
• Full current UK manual driving licence.

What's in it for you?

• Company Car
• Fuel Card
• Tablet
• Phone
• Incentive Scheme
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• 30 days holiday
• Healthshield Care Plan

If you are passionate and motivated, thrive on building great relationships in store and love to deliver results in a pacy environment, making a difference every day, this is the job for you.