Trade Tea Sales & Account Manager
The Tregothnan Estate is a private family home with a world-renowned botanical garden. The Estates maintenance, gardening, forestry and joinery employees support the core estate and manage the beautiful surroundings on the edge of the River Fal. The Estate is also a landlord with a substantial portfolio of residential, commercial, and agricultural properties.
The Estate produces tea (the first in the UK), honey and jam, delivers Experiences, including Garden and Tea Tasting Tours, and rents fabulous holiday accommodation between the tea and the sea. The teams have a great community spirit, the surroundings are inspiring, and the work is always interesting. Working at Tregothnan is being part of Cornwalls heritage and its modern future.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Trade Tea Sales & Account Manager to join our team to be responsible for driving revenue growth across Tregothnans trade tea accounts, through proactive, high-volume account management using telephone, CRM systems, and digital tools.
This is a commercially focused role responsible for managing and growing a large portfolio of trade customers, improving account performance, reactivating dormant clients, and increasing average order value through structured sales activity.
The role is designed to operate at scale, with the expectation of managing, over time, thousands of accounts efficiently through systems and disciplined follow-up.
Experience in sales or account management, preferably with tea knowledge and/or an understanding of premium products.
- To be comfortable making high volumes of calls, as well as confidence on the telephone and able to close.
- Strong CRM capability, with the ability to use systems to work efficiently at scale.
- Commercial mindset, focused on revenue.
- Ability to manage a high number of accounts and be consistent in follow-up.
- To be motivated by sales performance.
- Willingness to travel, with a full UK driving licence and own transport.
Salary circa £40,000pa, depending on experience (pro rata for part-time).
- Full-time (37.5 hrs pw, Mon-Fri 9.00am-5.00pm) or part-time considered.
- 21 days holiday, plus bank holidays (pro rata for part-time).
- Health care cash back plan.
- Discount scheme with high street and online retailers. Salary sacrifice homeware & tech and cycle to work schemes.