Regional Sales Manager - East

KWS SAAT SE; Thriplow; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

KWS UK Ltd. seeks a Regional Sales Manager to enhance their market presence in eastern UK. This role involves executing sales strategies, promoting products to key stakeholders, and requires a strong background in agriculture and sales. With a focus on professional growth, the position offers competitive benefits including bonuses, health care, and generous leave policies.

Benefits

30 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

Competitive Pension Scheme with 16% company contribution

Private Health Care Plan

Profit Related Bonus Scheme

Reduced diesel prices from the company’s fuel pump

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of work experience in Sales.
• Knowledge of UK agricultural market/distribution channels.

Responsibilities

• Executing cross crop sales activities for the eastern region.
• Promoting products to farmers and trade representatives.
• Designing sales campaigns and pricing offers.

Skills

Knowledge of UK agricultural market

Sales experience

Education

Academic degree in agricultural sciences or similar

Job description

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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.

Your 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.

Designsales 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 ofwork experiencein Sales

Knowledge of UK agricultural market / distribution channels

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

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KWS is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies. Nearly 5,000 employees in more than 70 countries generated net sales of around €1.68 billion in the fiscal year 2023/2024. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for almost 170 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for sugarbeet, corn, cereals, vegetables, oilseed rape and sunflower. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to continuously improve yield for farmers and plants’ resistance to diseases, pests and abiotic stress. To that end, the company invested more than €300 million last fiscal year in research and development. For more information: www.kws.com/career . Follow us on LinkedIn at https://linkedin.com/company/kwsgroup/ .

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