Due to considerable and continued growth our client, a highly respected seafood business who are looking for an ambitious and talented Sales Account Manager to join the team at their thriving business in London.
The successful candidate will have experience in working with sales in the food industry and have ambitions of joining a growing forward thinking business.
The role will be hands on, developing new business as well as being be fully responsible for building on the strong relationship with existing clients. This will be achieved through daily contact, developing and implementing JBP's, working closely with clients to improve services.
What we are looking for:
Essential Criteria:
- Prior recent experience in a role selling fresh/food products.
- Strong Leadership skills
- Proven track record of delivering sales growth
- Strategic business development skills
- Superb account management skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong negotiator
- Ability to influence
- Commercially astute
- Highly personable and positive
- Passionate about food
This is an exciting opportunity for someone to further their career and really manage their own desk. Salary expectations is basis on previous experience but will be paying up to £35,000.
Elevate Recruitment & Training Consultants Limited are food industry specialists. This vacancy is just one of a number of vacancies that we are working in this sector – please get in touch for further details.
To apply for this position, candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK. Elevate Recruitment & Training Consultants Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Keywords: Food, FMCG, Seafood, Meat, Export, Retail, Foodservice, Wholesale, Business to Business
This role may be suitable for you if you have a background as any of the following: Sales Manager, Commercial Manager, Account Manager, National Account Manager, Senior National Accountant Manager, NAM, SNAM, Key Account Manager, Business Development Manager, BDM.