Sales Executive (Food) (Dungannon) 26-28k
Job Description
Job title: Sales Executive (Food) (Dungannon) 26-28k
Company: Vanrath
Job description: Salary/ Benefits
£26,000 – £28,000 depending on experience
The Client
VANRATH are pleased to be working with an industry leading Meat Manufacturer who looking to recruit a Sales Executive to play an integral part of their continued growth strategy.
The Role
- Primarily responsible for proactively supporting and taking direction from the account manager with the day-to-day relationships with key customers and assisting on developing business through profitable trading opportunities.
- Support the Account Managers to ensure that growth is achieved.
- Ensure efficient management of the product range by utilising all aspects of the category management process.
- Monitor sales performance to budget & forecast and maintain accurate records of all sales activity.
- Manage internal / external relationships between NPD, Technical, Production and Commercial departments while supporting the Account Manager with customer account management.
- Helping to develop and grow sales accounts for the benefit of the company while ensuring all sales targets and key business objectives are met.
- Ensure the day-to-day relationships with key customers are met.
- Carry out sales presentations as required.
- Help maintain Photography portfolio and media submissions for E-commerce.
- Maintain assigned customer price files for accuracy.
- Attending client meetings, publish minutes from all meetings and organise customer visits as requested.
- Maintain an awareness of company products & processes as well as an awareness of product trends across the wider industry.
- Support in the publication of weekly sales data to the wider business.
- Attend planning meetings for assigned customers and support pm forecast / raw material needs.
- To ensure the integrity of our products, customers and brands is always maintained, as suitable to the role and defined in relevant procedure.
The Ideal Candidate
- Educated to at least A Level or equivalent, with a third level qualification being an advantage.
- Professional individual, who is passionate about food and seeking to enhance your skills further in a dynamic junior sales role
- Previous experience within a food manufacturing environment where essentially you have worked and built a strong understanding of this type of business in some areas is desirable but not essential.
- First class presentation and communication skills are crucial, with the ability to be at ease developing effective working relationships.
- You must have excellent presentation, numerical and analytical skills as well as a high level of computer literacy to achieve ambitious targets.
- Willing to be flexible and travel at short notice.
- Good levels of commercial and business acumen and considered decision-making.
Expected salary: £26000 – 28000 per year
Location: Dungannon, Co Tyrone
