Area Sales Representative - Food Packaging

NEW VACANCY! (PK7163)

AREA SALES REPRESENTATIVE - FOOD PACKAGING

HOMEBASED - TERRITORY IS EAST MIDLANDS & EAST ANGLIA

Salary circa £40K + Quarterly Bonus/Commission + Company Car + Pension + Other Benefits TBD

Our client offers a complete food packaging solution to a wide range of major food producers across the UK and Europe. Their expanding customer base includes major supermarket groups and multi-national food manufacturers, as well as a broad range of food service, industrial and fresh produce companies.

They currently require an Area Sales Representative to cover the East Mids and East Anglia region, selling a wide range of food packaging consumables to include plastics, flexibles and labels. The role will be split approx. 60-70% account management 30% new business.

Responsibilities:

• Required to manage existing business and account manage the established customers, while hunting down new business opportunities within the territory.
• Responsible for a quality driven customer service within the territory, acquisition of new customers, territory planning, executing and monitoring of all measures necessary to guarantee achieving budget.
• Driving growth in the territory through active and constant customer selection and engagement, targeted sales approach, acquisition across the territory generating growth and plan and execute on a quarterly and annual business plan.
• Managing contracts and pricing agreements in the territory, working with Sales Director to ensure this is within the desired company bands.
• Assisting quoting and report as and when required.
• The job holder is responsible for delivering key business goals through excellent team-working and self-coaching.
• Clear communication is key to success as the role requires regular dialogue with all business functions and customers.

Key Skills:

• Self-motivated with excellent organisational skills.
• A good communicator, with good interpersonal relationship skills, throughout all levels of the company, suppliers and customers.
• The ability to work both as a team player and on their own using their own initiative.