Area Sales Manager, Preston, Lancashire

Area Sales Manager

17 Days Old

Purpose of the role:

Are you interested in working for a World Class Multi award-winning field marketing agency, who currently hold the title of Agency of the Year?

Do you like the idea of representing one of the biggest brands out there?

Then this could be the role for you…..

Your role as a full-time, permanent team member, will be representing the Ice Cream brands portfolio on behalf of Unilever namely Ben and Jerrys, Walls and Magnum to name a few.

As part of the Dee Set team, you will work with colleagues who are responsible for raising Unilever's ice cream brand's performance, awareness and availability across a wide mix of UK smaller-format grocery retailers. You will be the eyes and ears of the brand, carrying out retail store visits within a defined territory with responsibility for driving distribution, availability, sales and brand engagement to enhance both turnover and share for the brand using our data tools.

Responsibilities of the role:

Visiting a mix of grocery and convenience stores to build and develop strong relationships with key decision makers, and to be recognised as adding value to the store.
Leveraging our data tools to identify insights and implement targeted interventions that improve the distribution and availability of our product portfolio.
Negotiation with key decision makers in store to ensure distribution and maximum availability for the Unilever Ice Cream brands to increase sales and availability, raising brand awareness and brand engagement with the retailers, and ensuring that agreed ranging and plans are maintained
Be the ‘eyes and ears' for the brand and Dee Set in-store by identifying problems, opportunities and both retailer and competitor intelligence.
Strive to ‘Make a Difference' for our clients by following Dee Set's proven processes.
Deliver a professional, efficient, and effective set of calls within every sales outlet.
Accurately record and complete all information on iPad using a bespoke software system.

We'd love you to join our team if you are:

Experienced in Sales and ideally have experience in the Independents, Wholesale and Convenience sector.
Thrive working unaided and as part of a team.
A great communicator who loves to build credible relationships in stores.
A passion to build brand awareness to the highest standard and to be motivated by results.
Deliver brilliant results at store executional level.
Data driven and be able to analyse data to drive results.
Full current UK manual driving licence.

What's in it for you?

Competitive Salary
Company Car
Fuel Card
Tablet
Phone
Incentive Scheme
Pension
Life Assurance
30 days holiday
Healthshield Care Plan

If you are passionate and motivated, thrive on building great relationships in store and love to deliver results in a pacy environment, making a difference every day, this is the job for you.

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Location:: Preston, Lancashire
Job Type:: FullTime

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