Regional Sales Manager

REGIONAL SALES MANAGER – PACKAGING MACHINERY

25-30K + 38K OTE + Company Car + Mobile + Lap Top + Pension + 25 Day Holiday

THE COMPANY

Well established as a market leader in the manufacture of special purpose machinery for the food sector, this business has as impressive portfolio of blue chip clients. As a result of heavy investment by their multi-billion pound owners the business has grown turnover by 50% in the last 5 years. On order to maintain their track record of double digit growth, the business is now looking to add an extra Regional Sales Manager to the team.

THE ROLE

As a Regional Sales Manager you role will be:

* To cover everything north of Nottingham including Scotland
* You will inherit a patch that is currently generating 600K, your target will be to grow it by 10% each year
* You will be selling into the food and pet food sectors.
* Sales of capital equipment as well as consumables and service contracts
* Build strong relationships with the existing accounts, whilst being proactive, networking cross site.
* Looking for new business opportunities as well as following up on leads generated by the internal sales team.
* Dealing with production, maintenance engineers/ managers, chief engineers, project manager, up to director level, discussing the challenges they face and what engineered solutions you can provide
* Attending exhibitions

THE CANDIDATE

The ideal Regional Sales Manager will have:

* Technical sales experience, this could be either field based or office.
* Ideally an engineering qualification
* A passion for selling technical products into engineers
* Good relationship building skills.

BENEFITS

The successful Regional Sales Manager can expect an initial 3 month training and induction program. You will spend time in the field with the Sales Manager being introduced to the accounts you will inherit. Your hard work will be rewarded with progression in to a key account managers position as well as scope to progress within the wider group