We have an exciting opportunity within the sales team covering the North West and Yorkshire. The ideal candidate will firstly have a passion for food, a fantastic personality, and ideally previous experience working with key group business in the foodservice sector.
Key responsibilities
* key contact for all assigned group business within your assigned region.
* You are expected to build and maintain strong relationships with existing customers to ensure customer satisfaction and business retention.
* You are responsible for ensuring that your allocated accounts remain at the expected level of spend and margin, in line with or exceeding budget.
* Responsible for pricing negotiations with your key groups in line with quarterly seasonal changes.
* Coordinate menu development days with your customers, ensuring you take the opportunity to upsell products and maximise baskets.
* Be reactive to any escalated account issues ensuring you seek satisfactory resolution from dept. heads where necessary.
* You will be responsible for targeted and strategic new business prospecting within your region.
* In line with your counterpart in the Business development team, be proactive in ensuring routes within your assigned region are running efficiently.
* Be proactive in identifying the start of fresh product seasons and engage with your customers to raise excitement and implement sales.
* In line with the NPD team, actively promote new Product presentation & tasting sessions to encourage sales of these lines.
* Arrange regular and structured depot and supplier visits with our customers to ensure they remain engaged with our business.
* Act as a brand ambassador at all times by embodying our core values inspiring trust, credibility and confidence in our products and services
Salary: Negotiable, plus car/car allowance, plus additional employee benefits.
Hours: Monday to Friday primarily (45 hours per week)
Benefits – We’ve designed our benefits to cover everything from big moments to little bits of help. As well as the essentials like holidays and pension, we’ve got our own Delifresh employee website to help your income go further, whether that’s discounts on your weekly shop, household bills to gifting, entertainment, and holidays.
33 days holiday including bank holidays (pro rata)
Health Cash Plan
Family Private Health Insurance
Enhanced Pension
Employee Assistance Programme
Employee discount
Annual bonus of 10% of salary based on company performance.