Sales Manager

HPRtalent; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is seeking a Project Sales Manager to drive national sales growth within the hospitality and retail sectors. This home-based role, with UK-wide travel, demands experience in product sales and business development. The ideal candidate will possess a degree, exceptional presentation skills, and knowledge of commercial catering equipment. A proactive approach to building customer relationships and ensuring satisfaction is essential. This position offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Benefits

Bonus

Car allowance

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a product sales or business development role within hospitality, education, HORECA, healthcare, or a similar technical environment.
• Proven track record of managing Key Accounts and contracts.
• Knowledge of commercial catering equipment and operational design.

Responsibilities

• Own and build strategies for developing independent sales growth.
• Assist in the development of the overall sales plan with senior stakeholders.
• Prepare forecasts and report KPIs for use in organizational planning.
• Provide visibility into the sales pipeline at every stage of development.
• Establish relationships with key customers both externally and internally.
• Secure new customers, expanding revenue through additional goods & services.
• Attend customer meetings to build a detailed brief of commercial requirements.
• Ensure all projects are entered accurately into the management system.
• Work closely with Design and Delivery team to meet customer briefs.
• Complete the transition project to Asset Management team to ensure customer satisfaction.

Skills

Proven proactive approach to resolving issues

Exceptional customer relationship qualities

Excellent presentation skills, written and verbal

IT literate

Education

Degree educated

Job description

Overview

Project Sales Manager – Hospitality / Retail Operations

Location : Home based with UK wide travel

Salary : £50-60,000 + bonus + car / allowance + benefits

Our client is a market leading organisation with an impressive portfolio of B2B customers in multiple sectors. The business supplies equipment into dealers, resellers, and direct end users across sectors such as hospitality, education, HORECA, healthcare, business and industry, and the public sector. To continue their impressive growth strategy they are now looking for a proactive and technically minded Project Sales Manager to grow national sales through a combination of field visits, telephone activity, and dealer engagement.

The successful candidate will be a hands-on sales professional, someone who enjoys building relationships, developing new customers, and converting opportunities.

The role

• To own plan and build strategies for developing the divisions independent sales growth
• To assist in the development of the overall sales plan with senior stakeholders
• To prepare forecasts and report KPIs, for use in organisational planning, financial forecasting, budget setting and strategic planning
• To provide full visibility into the sales pipeline at every stage of development whilst working collaboratively across teams
• To establish and foster partnerships and relationships with key customers both externally and internally
• To secure new customers with the aim of expanding the revenue by offering additional goods & services
• To attend the customer meetings with the aim of building a detailed brief of customers’ commercial requirements
• To ensure all projects are entered onto the company’s management system, ensuring all information is accurate, and thereafter maintained throughout the project lifecycle
• To work closely with the Design and Delivery team, construct an operational design that meets the specific requirements of the customers brief and business model, and the designs are returned to the customer within the agreed timeframes
• To ensure all commercial terms offer medium to long term value for the company’s success
• To complete the transition project to Asset Management team, ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction

The person

• Degree educated
• Proven experience in a product sales or business development role within hospitality, education, HORECA, healthcare, or a similar technical environment
• Proven track record of managing Key Accounts and contracts
• Knowledge of commercial catering equipment and operational design
• IT literate
• Exceptional customer relationship qualities
• Proven pro-active approach to resolving issues
• Ability to deal with customer at all levels of business
• Excellent presentation skills, written and verbal.
• Comfortable travelling extensively across the UK, therefore, requiring a full UK driving license

To apply for this exciting opportunity please email your CV