Brakes Group is a leading supplier to the foodservice sector in the UK, Ireland, France and Sweden. The Group is committed to provide its customers with outstanding service, products and foodservice solutions, its people with a `great place to work` and its suppliers with a great company to partner.
Owned by Sysco, the world`s leading foodservice company, Brakes Group comprises a family of specialist businesses which are able to deliver everything the caterer needs. It provides a professional, friendly regional service supported by a national network of depots, which ensures it offers an exceptional and individual service to each and every one of its customers
Area Sales Manager
Reading
Excellent Salary, Bonus and Benefits
The Role
An exciting opportunity has become available for an Area Sales Manager, covering Reading and surrounding area selling into Independent businesses. The principle reasonability for the Area Sales Manager is to maintain and grow profitable Independent sales within a given geographic and product portfolio area
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

- To achieve and increase Sales turnover and Gross profit
- To devise and deliver area business plan to maximise growth
- To devise and deliver a telesales partnership plan, to maximise business growth
- To gain and develop new accounts
- To proactively manage customer retention
- Accurate completion of area sales administration
- Maintenance of effective call cycle
- To maintain competitor awareness
- To contribute to Regional Plan
- To liaise with Accounts function to minimise credit exposure
- To maintain and develop knowledge of product offering
- Ensure best commercial fit to customer and business
- Maximise selling opportunities by analysis of customer need

The Person
The ideal candidate for the this Area Sales Manager opportunity will have experience in selling face to face to customers, they will have experience within the food industry (although not essential), and be able to manage their time effectively to maximise customer facing time.
Knowledge, Skills, Experience:

- Proven track record of profitable sales delivery
- Demonstration of the effectiveness of the Sales process
- Demonstrable knowledge of the market place
- Relevant experience of foodservice (not essential)
- The capacity to interpret, understand and act upon financial data to achieve customer solutions
- IT literate
- Full UK driving licence

Desirable:
Evidence of support to other team members
The Business
Brakes Group is committed to reducing the environmental impact the business has on both the communities it serves and the countries it operates in. It has ISO 14001 accreditation - an internationally recognised standard for environmental performance.
Brakes Group operates as an equal opportunities employer and we welcome all applications regardless of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, disability, age, political opinions or trade union membership.
Brakes UK uses a third party to undertake a number of checks. Any offer of employment made by Brakes UK would be conditional upon receiving a satisfactory; reference, identity document(s), basic DBS certificate and basic credit check.