Key Accounts Manager

• Join a leading US barbeque business
• Work with a small, passionate and dynamic team
• Win and manage garden centre group business in your area

Job Description – Key Accounts Manager

This is a new role, created to drive sales growth into an area with high potential but only a small number of existing stockists.

Using your skills, contacts and experience you will be tasked with:

• Identifying key independents or garden centre groups that sell garden leisure products.
• Secure meetings with relevant buyers to understand their needs and present solutions
• Secure orders and schedule deliveries
• Assist with in-store set up, assembling demonstration models and training staff
• Visiting regularly to build brand reputation and to secure top-up orders
• Attend trade and consumer events – occasionally at weekends
• Provide product demonstrations
• Work actively within the sales team to share best practice and celebrate successes.

About the Company:

• A highly successful US brand behind innovative outdoor cooking products with fantastic history and subsidiaries in Canada, Latin America, Australia, and Europe.
• In the UK the company works closely with major retailers and specialist garden centres to deliver exciting products and exceptional customer service.
• The UK business is growing and offers a collaborative, informal culture where passion for outdoor cooking is highly valued.

Candidate profile – Key Accounts Manager

We are looking for a dynamic field sales professional with proven field sales skills within garden centres, BBQ, outdoor leisure, or garden furniture sectors.

Additional qualities are:

• Strong sales, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
• Self-motivated, organised, and hands-on approach to field sales.
• Confident assembling product displays and delivering product demonstrations.
• Commercially astute with the ability to structure mutually beneficial ranges.
• Comfortable working flexibly, including occasional weekend events.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel extensively.

Salary/Benefits Information:

£42,000 base salary + 15% performance based bonus. Fully expensed hybrid company car, bbq for home use, staff discounts, 28 days holiday + bank holidays, mobile, laptop.

Contact: Nick Hester

Job Reference: NH/94262

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