Regional Sales Executive - Plastics, Flexibles & Labels

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REGIONAL SALES EXECUTIVE - PLASTICS, FLEXIBLES & LABELS

HOME BASED / SOUTH COAST

Start Salary circa £40K + Quarterly performance based commission + Company Car + Pension + Other Benefits

Our client offers food packaging solutions in plastics, flexibles and labelling to a wide range of major food producers across the UK and Europe.

They currently require a Regional Sales Executive, ideally based in or around Kent or Surrey to cover the South Coast to Cornwall, selling plain and printed packaging into major supermarket groups and multi-national food manufacturers, as well as a broad range of food service, industrial and fresh produce companies.

The preference is for a proven track record of sales into the food packaging sector and / or an understanding of plastic & flexible packaging, labels and associated consumables.

The focus of this role will be around 60% management of existing accounts and 40% development of new business opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Required to manage existing business and account manage the established customers, while hunting down new business opportunities within the territory.
• The Sales Representative is 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 Manager and Site Manager 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.