Area Sales Manager

• Fantastic opportunity to join an award-winning, global business who are market leader in their field!
• Excellent chance to combine your passion for sales and food/cooking if you are a foodie!
• Work for a business that truly invests in their employees' well-being and development, that offers fantastic training and career progression!

Location: London - UB, HA, W, WC

We have an incredible opportunity for a dynamic and ambitious Regional Sales Manager, with a proven track record in both new business success and account management, to join our client, who is a global, market-leading manufacturer of commercial kitchen equipment.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced sales professional, with a passion for all things cooking and food, to join a professional and dynamic team. You will be solely responsible for managing a designated sales region, selling their award winning range of professional kitchen equipment, designed to enhance efficiency, consistency, and quality in commercial kitchens.

This role will see you selling both direct to end users, who will be the likes of hotels, restaurants, various education settings, in-store/food to go venues and contract caterers, and back-selling via distribution partners. Your responsibilities will include conducting regular meetings with existing accounts, making in roads and building relationships with new potential customers, attending trade shows and events and conducting demos of the machines to chefs.

• Must have experience as a chef or working in a professional kitchen/hospitality
• The ideal candidate will have prior experience selling into the hospitality sector - hotels, restaurants, cafe's, pubs - anywhere with a commercial kitchen - however this isn't essential
• Individuals who are currently or have previously worked as a chef, with some sales experience, would also be a great fit for this role!
• You MUST live within the territory.

• Salary: £40-45,000 plus £8k bonus (uncapped)
• Company car plus mileage
• Mobile, laptop
• Excellent company pension 8% contributions, Life Assurance 6 x your annual salary & Private Health care
• 25 days holidays + BH