Job Description
Job Title: Sales Manager
Location: Lancashire, UK
Package Details: up to £45,000 plus 4k car and up to a massive 20k bonus!
Lavandi Talent are currently working with an award-winning beauty and cosmetics manufacturer renowned for their products with affiliations to some of the biggest brands within the industry!
Role and responsibilities:
Account management - Be the company face of the business, managing all levels of commercial business activity for both existing and new customers.
- Use your network and ingenuity to develop new business opportunities, managing the whole sales process from unearthing prospective customers, finding a solution for their needs, to onboarding them.
- Regularly meet with existing customers and ensure a high level of interaction and visibility.
- Keep up-to-date with market trends to ensure the customers’ business needs and opportunities are understood and met.
- Identify new opportunities for business within new and existing ranges to drive sustainable, profitable customer growth.
- Responsible for all negotiations and quotation submissions (including reviewing T&C’s and ways of working).
- Lead and manage cost reviews for all customers to ensure margin is maintained and follows market changes as and when required.
- Work with Finance to forecast annual/quarterly/monthly sales value and volume budgets.
- Responsible for hosting customer visits and site tours.
- Ensure the correct touch points are in place within the business to develop and grow function to function relationships.
- Manage NPD (new product development) and EPD (existing product development) both internally and externally
- Work with the customer to review, advise & feedback on formulations, proposed packaging & ingredient claims.
- Manage internal costings & commercial offer to the client.
- Management of conflicts to ensure team alignment and escalation to remove blockages as appropriate.
Ideal experience
- A proven track record of growing sales within Contract Manufacturing is essential.
- Be able to work under pressure to strict and sometimes challenging deadlines, with the ability to prioritise own work.
- New product development and project management experience, ensuring focus is maintained throughout the process.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Outlook
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Management of conflicts to ensure team alignment and escalation to remove blockages as appropriate.
- Full UK Driving License.
If you are looking for a new challenge, hit the apply button!
Reference – AC33202
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Unfortunately, due to the anticipated high numbers of applications we will not be able to respond to every applicant. If you have not received feedback within 14 days, your application may have been unsuccessful.
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