Graduate Area Sales Manager

Interested in food? Living in the Midlands? We have picked up a couple of great sales roles for graduates who like to get out and about.

Company

A market leading supplier of bakery products and ingredients to food service, manufacturing and baking industries with over 6000 business customers across the UK, 270 staff and a turnover of £120m.

They have just put together a company graduate training and development programme for their area sales manager roles as they look to bring in future leaders.

Graduate Area Sales Manager

A field sales role covering an area across parts of Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and Cheshire. You can be based anywhere in this territory and must be willing to travel - a company vehicle is provided.

Typically spending 3-4 days per week on the road you will be managing, developing and increasing sales profit contributions with existing and new customers in your area:

• Establishing and maintaining sound business relationships
• Advising customers of current and future promotional activity and products launches
• Pan and execute sales opportunities within new markets
• To act as an ambassador for the group
• Dealing with any customer problems in a timely manner

Training includes:

• Spending time rotating around departments to understand the wider business
• Shadowing the regional sales manager
• Learning about the portfolio of products
• Attending external sales and negotiation courses
• You will be given a 2 year personal development plan at the beginning to help you to learn and progress

Package

The successful candidate will receive a salary of £23-25K and a company vehicle, and will be eligible for the bonus scheme. An additional perk is the benefits platform which offers discounts on over 800 retailers and there are a few other benefits.

Profile

• Full UK driving licence
• Degree educated, most subjects welcome
• Strong interest in food, particularly in baking
• Experience in building face-to-face relationships with customers
• Genuine motives to work in a target driven sales career