Overview
This range is provided by Cavendish Maine. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.
Base pay range
£35,000 - £45,000 5% bonus, £6,000 car allowance, 25 days holiday, pension and healthcare.
Responsibilities
* Home-based, covering Norfolk and Suffolk, you will inherit an existing customer base of garden centres with annual sales value over £1 million.
* Your role is to increase sales through established stockists and to open new garden trade accounts in order to achieve annual sales growth.
* Form a regional sales plan based on historic sales data and company expectations.
* Approach all customer meetings with full preparation to understand opportunities.
* Network through customer contacts to sell through the categories and ranges.
* Back up your sales activities with in-store training and support.
* Communicate regularly with the Sales Director and with colleagues in order to meet opportunities, overcome challenges and share market information.
About the Company
* You will join a fascinating, international sales and marketing business with a collection of brands that makes them a first-choice supplier to many of the UK’s leading garden trade retailers.
* In order to maximise the impact of this role, we are looking for an experienced Sales Representative or Area Sales Manager who is already calling on garden centres and trusted relationships with store-based decision makers.
* The commercial skills to plan and deliver a regional sales plan.
* Proven experience of preparing for and performing outstanding sales visits.
* Experience of selling through a range of products and categories.
* Fantastic relationship building and customer service skills.
* A strong work ethic and resilience.
Salary/Benefits Information
* The job holder will enjoy a basic salary in the range £35,000 - £45,000 plus 5% annual bonus, car allowance and mileage allowance, company pension, healthcare and medical cash back schemes, life assurance, mobile, laptop and 25 days paid holiday bank holidays.
Contact
Nick Hester
Job Reference: NH/96574
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Should you not hear from us within 3 working days please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please be advised that if unsuccessful for this role we may keep your details in our hold file, during which time you may be contacted for other suitable vacancies. If you do not want us to do this please call us to advise.
In the meantime, we would like to thank you for your interest in Cavendish Maine.
Seniority level
* Not Applicable
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Sales, General Business, and Business Development
* Industries
* Retail Building Materials and Garden Equipment
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