Job Description
## Job Description\n\n \n\nYour Way Area Sales Manager - Homebased Field Sales - Brighton\n\n**Competitive salary, company car & home-based contract & Excellent Company\nBenefits **\n\n We are expanding! Here at Kff, we have ambitious growth plans and are\nlaunching a brand new offering called ‘Your Way’ within our Independent Sales\nbusiness. As a Your Way Area sales Manager, you’ll be responsible for winning\nand maximising business in your very own dedicated neighbourhood of just\none square mile.\n\nKFF is a regional food wholesaler with around 270 colleagues based near\nMaidstone, Kent. We are part of Sysco, the world’s largest foodservice\nprovider with over 65,000 colleagues globally.
kff has a family feel with a\nclose-knit team, supplying both fantastic local pub and restaurant customers\nas well as delivering direct to the caterer.\n\nThis is a bespoke opportunity, that no other business is currently offering!\nSo, if you want to be part of something new and exciting, and you love\nbeing out on the field, WHILST having the opportunity to grow in your career,\nwhat are you waiting for?\n\nSo, what will you be doing?\n\nYou’ll solely be responsible for the success of your own local neighbourhood\nby achieving the following;\n\n * Research your target audience and opportunities in your neighbourhood\n * Build and leverage strong customer relationships with your local neighbourhood and community through constant selling, face to face meetings and understanding the customer needs\n * Onboard new customers effectively & successfully whilst ensuring close working relationships with existing accounts and track activity using salesforce\n * Work closely with your distribution partner driver for your neighbourhood to create a strong team for the community\n * Deliver profitable volume growth and hit targets\n * Monitor competitor and Independent market activity around your neighbourhood and propositions to ensure you are offering our customers the best solutions and insight from the biggest Foodservice provider in the world\n\nIt goes without saying that you are highly service focused, putting the\ncustomer at the heart of everything you do, having a passion and creativity\nwhen dealing with food. Providing the best solutions to support and enhance\nthe customer’s business. Being creative with menu planning and designs, with\nensuring the understanding of portioning control and finical costings.\nTenacious and resilient you’re a self-starter with a drive and determination\nto succeed.
You’ll need to be confident with the cold calling as well as face\nto face side of sales. Strong time management skills with the ability to\nprioritise workload. Needing to be self-motivated to enhance your own\ndevelopment.\n\nWe’re not just looking for a good fit, we want people who help to make us even\nbetter.
We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates\nand values diversity. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to\ndefine it. Bring your whole self to work.\n\nIn return we offer a good basic salary, generous holiday allowance plus the\noption to purchase more, pension plus huge discounts on award- winning\nproducts.
In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to further enhance your\nskills through our Learning & Development programmes.