Sales Specialist

NWF Group; Barnstaple; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commission

Car allowance

Holidays 33 days

Training opportunities

Job summary

NWF Agriculture, part of the NWF Group, is seeking a Sales Specialist to manage a Devon-based ledger of feed customers. You will drive volume and margin through proactive outbound calls, farm visits, and cross-selling across our product range.

In this role you will use our CRM to maintain client histories, price updates, and market insights while meeting annual targets. A full UK driving license is essential, with regional travel required.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a targeted sales position.
• Industry experience within agriculture, feed or farming would be advantageous.
• Self-motivated and pro-active.
• Confident in working to and exceeding targets.
• Strong communicator both written and verbal.
• Full UK Driving License – travel across region to meet with customers is required.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for compound feed sales across a territory, working to achieve volume and margin targets set annually by management.
• Accountable for blended feed sales within the assigned region, ensuring delivery against budgeted volume and margin expectations.
• Responsible for third-party product sales, managing a customer base and ensuring performance against budgeted targets.
• Collaborate with Customer Service and Distribution to ensure high standards of account management and to maximise commercial opportunities across the region.
• Maintain consistent and effective use of the CRM system, ensuring accurate and comprehensive client records, product history, and other key data points to support regional business insights
• Manage and communicate product price changes, ensuring timely and clear updates to customers across the region.

Skills

Targeted sales

Agriculture experience

Self-motivated

Strong communicator

Tools

CRM system

Job description

Salary: Competitive base plus commission and car allowance

NWF Agriculture are keen to appoint a Sales Specialist based in the Devon region to maintain and grow a ledger of feed customers, through proactive outbound and farm calling. Responsible for identifying and pursuing opportunities to cross-sell additional products where appropriate, contributing to overall volume and margin growth.

WhyNWFAgriculture?

• Monthly Pay: Competitive base plus commissions and car allowance
• Shifts: Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5pm
• Holidays: 33 days per year
• Progression Opportunities: Clear progression pathways across the wider group that operates 2 other business’
• Training Opportunities: Funded, accredited courses.
• Medicash: Cashback on routine medical expenses such as dental, optical, physiotherapy and more!
• Shopping Discounts: Save with discounts at major retailers like Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Currys, Debenhams and more!
• Travel Savings: Discounts on flights, hotels, and airport parking.
• Entertainment Offers: Reduced prices at over 400 cinemas across the UK, including savings on drinks and snacks.
• Dining and Lifestyle: Access to deals on restaurants, leisure activities, and other lifestyle services.
• Enhanced Policies: Enhanced maternity and paternity leave.
• The Usual: Company Pension Scheme, Life Assurance, Cycle to Work Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme including counselling, legal and financial support, Free Refreshments, Free Secure On-Site Parking!

Day to Day

• Accountable for compound feed sales across a territory, working to achieve volume and margin targets set annually by management.
• Accountable for blended feed sales within the assigned region, ensuring delivery against budgeted volume and margin expectations.
• Responsible for third-party product sales, managing a customer base and ensuring performance against budgeted targets.
• Collaborate with Customer Service and Distribution to ensure high standards of account management and to maximise commercial opportunities across the region.
• Maintain consistent and effective use of the CRM system, ensuring accurate and comprehensive client records, product history, and other key data points to support regional business insights
• Manage and communicate product price changes, ensuring timely and clear updates to customers across the region.

What will you bring?

• Previous experience within a targeted sales position
• Industry experience within agriculture, feed or farming would be advantageous
• Self-motivated and pro-active
• Confident in working to and exceeding targets
• Strong communicator both written and verbal
• Full UK Driving License – travel across region to meet with customers is required

Who are NWFAgriculture?

NWF Group comprises of 3 key businesses: NWF Fuels, NWF Agriculture & Boughey Distribution. Employing over 1,400 colleagues across the group, we encourage and empower our people to progress and move fluidly through the group, meaning the sky really is the limit when you join us!

What makes NWF Agriculture different? We go beyond feeds – offering a wide range of technical services, including our unique laboratory service, enabling us to develop the correct nutrition for individual flocks and herds. We manufacture the highest quality dairy, beef and sheep feeds to over 4,750 farmers feeding one in six dairy cows across the nation! NWF Agriculture has grown organically to be the second biggest ruminant feed manufacturer in the UK and we want you to be part of it!

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexualorientationor age.