Area Sales Manager

Summary

Join Brakes, the UK’s largest foodservice supplier, as an Area Sales Manager in the West Midlands. This home-based position offers a competitive salary of up to £33,000 plus a great bonus, company car, and benefits. You will build and maintain strong customer relationships, grow and retain customers, and offer practical solutions and products. Success requires strong customer service skills, tenacity, resilience, and target-driven performance. The role involves understanding competitor activity and working with the Business Development Manager. Career progression opportunities are available within the company.

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