Area Sales Manager - Chefs into Sales

salary £46,500 basic, excellent bonus, company car & superb benefits including a really good pension scheme + 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

what an unbelievable opportunity this is for chefs or ex chefs with confident personalities to develop a career in field sales with a market leader.

• a global company and a market leader
• a leading supplier of innovative and premium quality catering products
• a trailblazer – leading the way in their sector with a proven and progressive business model
• provide superb training in the uk and overseas to all area sales managers
• provide brilliant pathways and career development opportunities for ambitious, driven and high performing professionals

• a unique role demonstrating and selling catering products to catering end users – eg hotels, restaurants, gastropubs covering london
• also to work closely with catering dealerships on the area to build relationships and channel business
• develop relationships with both existing and new accounts
• effectively manage a sales territory to ensure maximum coverage and increase sales and profitability
• to work towards meeting and exceeding sales targets set
• to work monday to friday, normal working hours

• ideal profile is a chef or ex chef with some sales experience ideally food service sales experience but our client will consider chefs or ex chefs with any sales experience
• our client will also happily consider chefs or ex chefs who have no sales experience but are excellent communicators, very confident personalities and with the drive and hunger to be a success in a sales role
• a confident and effective presenter/demonstrator. A big part of the role will be demonstrating products to teams of people eg kitchen staff so candidates must be comfortable and confident in this environment
• the ability and credibility to liaise effectively and professionally with head chefs, executive chefs, development chefs, restaurant owners etc
• well organised with the ability to manage a large sales territory effectively and efficiently live on the area in question

due to anticipated response levels we shall only be able to contact candidates whose applications we wish to progress. If you do not hear from us your application will be deemed to be unsuccessful on this occasion.