Poultry Sales Manager
Location of the Job:
Field-based territory field sales position covering the Midlands.
Salary & Benefits Package:
A highly competitive basic salary up to £40,000 per year depending on experience.
Company vehicle/allowance.
Performance related bonus.
Pension scheme.
Additional Information: This is a permanent full-time position.
About The Company:
A leading supplier or agricultural, farming, poultry equipment supplying the dairy, pig and livestock markets.
The Job Role Details:
This specialist agricultural equipment supplier is now looking for an experienced Agricultural Sales professional to join their team to manage new sales activity be deliver results linked to our business goals.
The successful candidate will engage with the customer base including active farms, distributors and contractors to advise on the use of the company's products and services. Proactively problem solving to generate sales through both project specifications and repeat customer business.
The successful candidate will have experience of supporting a culture within the sales team of excellent customer service and sales and margin success. Practical onsite experience would also be desirable in order to drive achieving the target margin for installation projects through supporting the installation team.
Ideally you will have a proven track record in agricultural sales, the poultry sector especially.
Key Responsibilities:
You will…
Generate new sales opportunities.
Deliver the sales turnover and margin target for your territory.
Manage the sales project pipeline your territory.
Provide sales intelligence to support the management and marketing teams.
Support the relationship between sales and operations.
Liaise with the marketing team to support the development of the company brand.
Develop and maintain account relationships with poultry and livestock businesses and their suppliers / business partners e.g. shed builders, merchants, distributors, contractors.
Deal with customer organisations at all levels.
Sell projects and turn-key solutions.
Oversee project installations.
Support the development of a leading brand.
Plan the environmental approvals process within livestock business.
Understand the design of air movement and environmental systems.
Aware of and have relationships with relevant merchants and dealers.
Ideal Person Skills & Qualifications:
You will have / be…
Poultry or poultry equipment experience.
Proven area sales experience in the agricultural sector.
Desirable Skills:
Self-motivated and driven to succeed in sales.
Enjoy developing relationships.
Takes personal responsibility for the results of self and supporting the rest of the team.
Self and others aware - able to work successfully as part of a team.
An understanding the poultry and livestock markets and the challenges they face.
Creative problem solver.
Negotiation and rapport building skills.
Motivate, lead and influence others.
Presentation skills including business case and seminar presentations.
Good IT Skills.
Full UK Driving License.
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The Industry (Key Words): Agricultural sales jobs, technical agricultural jobs, technical sales engineer jobs, agricultural technical sales engineer jobs, poultry sales jobs, technical poultry equipment jobs, poultry equipment jobs, livestock jobs, livestock sales jobs, technical livestock sales jobs, farming sales engineer jobs.
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