Area Sales Manager

Summary

Join Brakes' Independent Sales Team as an Area Sales Manager, contributing to ambitious growth plans. This home-based role in the West Midlands offers a competitive salary (£33,000+), bonus, company car, and the chance to thrive in a leading food service sales force. You will build and maintain strong customer relationships, achieve sales targets, and offer solutions to enhance customer businesses. Success requires a customer-centric approach, tenacity, and a drive to exceed targets. Continuous professional development is encouraged, with opportunities for career progression. The company values diversity and inclusion, creating a supportive and welcoming work environment.

Requirements

• It goes without saying that you’re highly service focused, putting the customer at the heart of everything you do, providing the best solutions to support and enhance their business
• Tenacious and resilient you’re a self-starter with the drive and determination to succeed and demonstrable experience of delivering against targets
• You’ll also be self-motivated to enhance your own development, seeking continuous improvement by leveraging & learning from a diverse range of skills & experience and a range of L&D programmes
• You will have the opportunity to progress into a vast range of commercial roles to really develop your career
• You’ll also need to be confident with the adoption of our modernisation programme and the new technology we are adopting to improve the customer experience and optimise performance

Responsibilities

• Role model our Company Values / Purpose
• Build and leverage strong customer relationships through a natural curiosity in the independent sector
• Grow and retain customers delivering profitable volume growth Vs targets
• Effectively partner your customers to understand their plans for growth, adding value, offering a wide range of practical solutions and products
• Understand competitor activity & proposals, ensuring you are always offering your customers the best local solutions
• Work pro-actively with the Business Development Manager to understand new customer requirements and ensure a successful handover
• Act as a brand ambassador for Brakes in your local market

Preferred Qualifications

Experience of salesforce while not essential, would be advantageous

Benefits

Up to £33,000 + great bonus', company car & home-based contract