Sales Manager - East India

ABN Feeds; Peterborough; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in animal nutrition technology is seeking a Sales Manager to lead livestock operations in East India. The ideal candidate will have strong commercial acumen and proven leadership abilities to drive growth in the poultry business. Excellent communication and analytical skills are essential, as well as fluency in English and Bengali. This role offers competitive compensation and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Annual salary reviews

Incentive bonus

Company car/allowance

Ongoing career development

Enhanced family benefits

Financial and wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of livestock operations and market trends.
• Proven track record in driving change and delivering results.
• Proficiency in financial analysis and budget management.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategic plans to achieve business objectives.
• Oversee sales, logistics, and distribution activities.
• Manage relationships with key customers and ensure accurate forecasting.
• Monitor market trends and ensure adherence to local laws.
• Build strategic partnerships and represent the company at events.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Leadership abilities

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

Analytical skills

Detail-oriented

Fluency in Bengali

Job description

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Sales Manager

Location: Home based - East India

AB Vista, part of AB Agri (the agricultural division of ABF plc), is a global leader in animal nutrition technology, pioneering innovative feed solutions through research, collaboration, and technical expertise. We are seeking a Sales Manager to lead our Livestock operations in East India, based in Kolkata. In this key role, you’ll drive growth within our poultry business, manage sales and distribution, and strengthen customer partnerships. With your technical background and extensive experience in the livestock or animal feed industry, you’ll help shape AB Vista’s continued success and expand our impact across the region.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute strategic plans to achieve business objectives, identify new market opportunities, and drive revenue growth within the Livestock sector.
• Oversee daily sales, logistics, and distribution activities to ensure smooth and efficient business operations.
• Lead sales initiatives, set and monitor targets, maintain strong relationships with key customers and distributors, and ensure accurate forecasting in collaboration with the supply chain team.
• Manage budgeting, forecasting, and financial performance to meet profitability goals, analysing results and taking corrective action where needed.
• Monitor market trends, competitor activities, and regulatory updates; ensure adherence to all local laws and company policies while sharing key market insights with leadership.
• Build strategic partnerships, represent the company at industry events, and strengthen the organisation’s presence and network across the Livestock sector.

What You'll Bring

• Strong commercial acumen with an in-depth understanding of livestock operations, market trends, and business growth strategies.
• Proven leadership abilities with a track record of self‑motivation, driving change, and delivering results.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship‑building skills.
• Analytical and detail‑oriented, with proficiency in financial analysis and budget management.
• Fluent in both written and spoken English and Bengali.

About The Company

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, company car/allowance, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits — these are just some of the ways we reward you — from day one.

About Us

We’re AB Vista, an animal nutrition technology company offering pioneering products and technical services to the global animal feed industry. We’re part of the AB Agri community of leading animal nutrition products and services businesses. We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology‑based products, and offering data services for the agri‑food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers — and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter – or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early, so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can — it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive — or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this will not affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and Media Sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.