Regional Sales Manager - East

KWS Group; Royston; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading agricultural company is seeking a Regional Sales Manager for the eastern UK. You will drive sales initiatives, promote innovative seed solutions, and engage directly with customers. The ideal candidate has significant sales experience and a strong understanding of the UK agricultural market. This position offers competitive benefits and opportunities for personal development.

Benefits

30 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

Highly competitive Pension Scheme

Private Health Care Plan

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of work experience in Sales.
• Knowledge of agricultural channels essential.
• Fluency in English required.

Responsibilities

• Execute cross crop sales activities for eastern UK.
• Promote KWS products to farmers and agronomists.
• Design sales campaigns with the Commercial Director.

Skills

Sales Experience

Knowledge of UK Agricultural Market

Fluent English

Education

Academic Degree in Agricultural Sciences or Similar

Job description

Overview

KWS UK Ltd. is looking for a new Regional Sales Manager - East! Are you ready to be the face of KWS in the eastern market? This role will focus on delivering cross crop sales operations in eastern UK by focusing on serving customers through the optimal channels such as agencies and distributors.

Responsibilities

• Executing cross crop sales activities for the eastern region of the UK.
• Actively promote KWS products to farmers, agronomists, trade representatives and others to influence purchasing decisions in favour of KWS hybrid and C2 seeds.
• Analyse and understand the market situation, evaluation and future to define action plans for the region.
• Feed market information back into KWS UK to support action plans for the company.
• Regularly attend relevant open days, field events, trade shows etc.
• Act as first point of contact for customers for product questions, complaints etc.
• Design sales campaigns together with Commercial Director and marketing, price offers and contracts with customers and partners.
• Distribute trial/demo seed according to sales strategy.
• Supports KWS in project related work.

Your Qualifications

• Preferred: academic degree in agricultural sciences, agricultural economics or similar
• Minimum 3 years of work experience in Sales
• Knowledge of UK agricultural market / distribution channels
• Fluent English skills

Our Offer

• Key focus on professional and personal development. “Make yourself grow”.
• 35 working hours weekly – additional working hours will be expected based on seasonal demands (especially in July - Sep)
• 30 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Highly competitive Pension Scheme with 16% Company contribution and 1.2% minimum employee contribution
• Life Assurance, of three times annual salary
• Income Protection Plan at 75% of salary for long-term illness and disability for a period of three years
• Private Health Care Plan
• Profit Related Bonus Scheme, targeted at 10% of annual salary
• Membership of Lifestyles discount scheme
• Reduced diesel prices from the company’s fuel pump