Sales Manager

Wallace Hind Selection LTD; Stafford; Remote; GBP 51,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-established British manufacturer is looking for a Sales Manager to grow sales within the food industry. You will manage a large client base, work with marketing-generated enquiries, and receive full technical and sales support. Candidates must have a proven field sales background in industrial or engineering sectors and experience selling to the food industry. This role offers a salary of up to £60,000 plus benefits.

Benefits

Company Car

6% Pension

Death in Service

Qualifications

• Proven track record in field sales for an industrial or engineering company.
• Experience selling capital equipment or technical solutions to the food industry.
• Technical background is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Identify and create client needs based on CRM and digital marketing enquiries.
• Generate proposals and quotes to close sales.
• Work within a team to achieve sales targets.

Skills

Proven track record in field sales

Experience in the food industry

Technical communication skills

Education

Engineering or technical qualifications

Job description

Overview

A fantastic opportunity for a Sales Manager to join a well established British manufacturer of process plant connectivity solutions supplied mainly to the food industry with a brief to grow sales. You will be working with a large blue chip installed base and lots of marketing generated enquiries with a very realistic team target and complete technical and sales support.

Salary and Benefits

BASIC SALARY: up to £60,000
BENEFITS: circa £10,000 OTE
Company Car
6% Pension
Death in Service

Location

LOCATION: Covering the whole UK, home based and ideally living on the M6 corridor between Birmingham & Manchester

Commutable locations

COM MUTABLE LOCATIONS: Manchester, Birmingham, Stoke, Derby, Newcastle-under Lyme, Nottingham

Job title and focus

JOB DESCRIPTION: Sales Manager, Business Development Manager, Area Sales Manager - processing machinery, food industry

Role summary

A classic Sales Manager role working with a well established client base and developing new business from CRM and digital marketing enquiries.

Your role as Sales Manager is to identify and create client needs, to be able to communicate these technically back to the company to generate proposals and quotes and then to close.

Full technical and sales support alongside full product training will be given.

You will be working as part of a team with a team target.

Person specification

PERSON SPECIFICATION: Sales Manager, Business Development Manager, Area Sales Manager - processing machinery : food industry

You MUST have a proven track record in field sales working for an industrial, engineering or technical company.

Ideally you WILL have sold capital equipment or a technical solution to the food industry.

Any specific experience of product handling or process plant connectivity solutions would be advantageous.

An engineering or technical background and qualifications would also be advantageous.

The company

THE COMPANY:

A very well established British manufacturer of process plant connectivity solutions including conveyors mainly supplied to the food industry with order values ranging from £10,000 up to £200,000 (and up to £500,000 for turnkey systems).

They have invested heavily in their CRM and Digital Marketing to support both winning business from their installed base but also to generate enquiries for new business.

Interested?

Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.

Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.

Reference: MPH18256, Wallace Hind Selection