Sales Representative

Inherit a top performing sales area with a highly established customer base

Enjoy an extensive hand over from the retiring Sales Representative

An excellent employer with high morale and very low staff turnover

Sales Representative – West Midlands, Mid-Wales and South Wales

£31,000 to £35,000 + sales bonus + company car + 25 days holiday + pension + life assurance + healthcare + mobile + laptop + fuel card + work-from-home.

This is an outstanding opportunity to join one of the UK’s leading garden trade suppliers, replacing a Sales Representative who retires this year after long service. The job holder will enjoy a thorough hand-over and a loyal customer base of almost all garden centres in the region.

Key Responsibilities Will Include:

• Create an effective journey plan that maximises customer contact time.
• Use your relationship building skills to secure long-term partnerships with all accounts.
• Provide an exceptional experience for the customer through the highest standards of customer service.
• Demonstrate a broad range of sales skills – persuasive selling, negotiation, order capture. merchandising, new displays, problem solving and in-store training.
• Devise creative initiatives to grow business within individual accounts and across the whole region.
• Provide sales forecasts and market feedback to the National Sales Manager on request.
• Attend trade shows or other showcase events

Sales Representative – Candidate Specification:

• We are looking for an experienced Sales Representative from another professional garden trade supplier  who bring their knowledge of seasonal selling and understanding of garden centre operations.

Specific Qualities Will Include:

• A home location in the West Midlands, Mid Wales or South Wales
• Field sales experience dealing with independent garden centres
• Great relationships with garden centre staff and buyers
• A talent for account management with sound sales and negotiation skills
• A persuasive communicator able to influence both internally and externally
• Excellent time management skills
• Ability to work on own initiative

The Company:

• A very well-established British manufacturing business that has achieved worldwide success through the development of first class products that have become the market standard in their category.
• Their innovative products are backed by exciting advertising, great packaging and are already stocked by almost all UK garden centres.

Contact:

Nick Hester

Reference: NH/86802

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