Area Sales Manager

Area Sales Manager (North Scotland) – Professional Catering Equipment

£40k Basic plus attractive commission, Company Car, Fuel Card, Laptop, Mobile, Pension

Location encompasses: Inverness, Elgin, Aberdeen, Peterhead, Dundee, Perth, Fort William, Thurso, Kirkcaldy, Wick and surrounding areas.

The Opportunity

An excellent sales opportunity to work with a leading manufacturer of commercial kitchen equipment as they continue to expand on impressive market share statistics. The Regional Sales Managers are responsible for building contacts, cultivating relationships, developing, and influencing sales with support and collaboration with the Sales Director to develop market share and sales growth in their respective region.

The Role

You will be expected to increase sales through the customer base from customer development within your region by interacting with new customers, end-users such as care homes, restaurants, hotels, pubs, schools, catering outlets, and your dedicated dealers, along with kitchen consultants to achieve the sales plan. You will also manage and grow territory volume by pursuing both identified opportunities and creating new opportunities, with responsibility for pre-qualifying potential end-user customers.

The Ideal applicant

We are looking for a self-motivated sales professional who possesses excellent oral and written communication skills at all levels, with an ability to build and maintain a strong referral network.

We need you to have at least one year of field based B2B sales experience and have commercial kitchen experience as one of a chef de partie, kitchen manager, pastry chef, sous chef, executive chef, head chef, contract catering manager or hold professional catering qualifications.