Area Sales Manager

Summary

Join kff, a regional food wholesaler, as an Area Sales Manager in East London. This home-based position offers a competitive salary of up to £40,000 plus uncapped bonus potential, a company car or travel allowance. You will be responsible for achieving profitable volume growth by gaining, growing, and retaining customers within your territory. The role involves building strong customer relationships, onboarding new customers, and understanding competitor activity. kff is seeking a commercially astute individual with strong relationship-building skills and proficiency in Excel. A food background is preferred but not essential. kff values diversity and inclusion and encourages applicants to bring their whole selves to work.

Requirements

• We are looking for someone who has the ability to not only win new business but also maximise sales through our existing customers
• Ideally, you’ll be commercially astute, technically proficient in excel and building and maintaining relationships
• Not to mention, you must have a desire for sales!

Responsibilities

• Gain, grow and retain customers delivering profitable volume growth Vs targets
• Research your target audience and opportunities in your territory
• Build and leverage strong customer relationships with your territory and community through constant selling, face to face meetings and understanding the customer needs
• Onboard new customers effectively & successfully whilst ensuring close working relationships with existing accounts and track activity
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

It would also be great if you had a food background, but this is not essential

Benefits

Up to £40,000 + uncapped bonus potential, company car or travel allowance & home-based contract