Sales Manager - Chicken And Turkey Importer

HtE Recruitment Limited; Basildon; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

HtE Recruitment Limited is seeking a proactive Sales Manager for a Chicken and Turkey import business operating across Europe with docks at Felixstowe and London Gateway. You will drive wholesale and foodservice sales, securing orders on container arrivals and coordinating logistics to deliver to buyers.

The role requires hands-on outreach via phone, LinkedIn, email and site visits to build a UK-wide customer base, with a focus on converting leads before stock lands and expanding into the frozen

Qualifications

• Experience as a sales manager in meat import industry is preferred.
• Experience with Europe-sourced chicken and turkey products.
• Experience selling to UK wholesale and foodservice markets.

Responsibilities

• Proactively secure sales of imported meat items before stocking at docks.
• Contact via calls, LinkedIn, emails and site visits to customers.
• Sell containers ready for transportation directly to buyers.

Skills

Sales leadership

Key account development

Wholesale & foodservice

Import logistics

Job description

Sales manager for a Chicken and Turkey import company, this company imports from Europe tons of chicken and turkey at a time, a mixture of raw meat products and value added meat products (in breadcrumbs, herb coatings etc). This role is very proactive and you will need contacts within the Wholesale, foodservice and processing markets to open the doors, ideally with knowledge of selling into the frozen market. They meat hands at the dock's at Felixstow and London gateway and then is transported direct to the companies you have sold the products to.

The role

As a sales manager, you will be hiting the phones, linkedin, emails and site visits to secure sales of imported meat items, this must be done prior to the stocking landing in the dock and you will be selling what is on the container ready for transportation direct to the company you sold it to. This is a very proactive sales role within the turkey and chicken market. This sales role includes all the normal sales manager duties

Experience

• sales manager
• imported chicken and turkey products from europe
• they import from there own farms in europe
• sales uk wide however the products dock into essex / london gateway ports
• £45-60k