Job Title: Sales Executive – Food and Drink Industry
Location: Between Wallingford, Abingdon and Oxford (OX10)
Salary: £20,000 – £30,000 per annum depending on experience
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
The Company was formed in 2004 inspired by a passion for Spanish food and culture – this family run company are now one of the UK’s leading importers and distributors of high-quality Spanish foods.
Key Duties:
Your focus will be growing their existing sales through a combination of increasing current customer orders and bringing on-board new customers. Your responsibilities will also incorporate customer service and administration tasks including the processing of sales orders.
Existing Business
- Work as part of the team to ensure the delivery of outstanding customer service, processing orders and invoicing
- Outbound ‘warm calling’ in order to build relationships with existing customers and finding cross/upsell opportunities for these customers
- Ensuring they are kept up to date with special offers
- Introducing new catalogues and making sure that all customers are aware of new items that have launched
- Supporting Key accounts – Ensuring that these accounts are well looked after and supported whilst working to grow these accounts
New Business
- Outbound calling to lapsed customers to reintroduce them to the company and its products
- Nurture inbound leads and follow them through to secure new orders and grow these relationships
- Researching and contacting potential customers to introduce the company, products and service
- Attending trade fairs – meeting new customers and following them up after the event
- Work to attract new customers using social media and other platforms
About you:
- Experience in a sales-based role
- Confidence, with a polite telephone manner
- Interest and experience in Food Industry (Preferred)
- Excellent communication skills
- Relationship building experience
- Experience planning and organising using a CRM to maximise opportunities
- Tenacity – Willing to follow the sales process through from lead to conversion and follow up
- To be I.T. literate – including the use of Social media and LinkedIn
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