Single Variety Co
Jam Sales Executive
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To apply please email nicola@singlevariety.co.uk your CV and a few lines explaining why you'd make a great jam seller!
Single Variety Co is a family run premium jam maker based in Warmley, Bristol. Every product in our core range is an award winner at the Great Taste Awards or Taste of the West Awards, and we are winners of the Bristol Life Best Retail Award.
We are looking for a Foodservice & Wholesale Sales Executive to join our team
This is the first sales role within the business, and as such you have a huge opportunity to make a difference. You'll be reporting directly into Nicola, the founder, and work closely alongside the rest of our small jam team (there are currently 13 of us).
The Role:
- To generate sales growth within foodservice and wholesale categories.
- Create and manage your own sales pipeline by identifying potential customers, building a prospect list and proactively engaging prospects via phone, email, and face to face.
- Maintaining and strengthening relationships with new and existing stockists by offering great customer service and regular check ins.
- Ownership of the wholesale contact list; ensuring regular updates are sent regarding our seasonal flavours (by email, telephone and visits to local stockists).
- Attending trade shows (and identifying new trade show opportunities)
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Who We Are Looking For:
- An enthusiastic people-person – you love meeting new people and are confident approaching and starting conversations, whilst staying professional.
- Comfortable with cold outreach sales. You'll be identifying and contacting potential new customers and must be confident to approach them both in person and by telephone.
- Sales experience required – you have a couple of years sales experience, ideally within food or drink
- Ability to plan and manage your time effectively and able to make decisions on which potential customers to prioritise – a lot of the time you will be working on your own.
- You’ll have energy, resilience, and motivation. Our longest time from first contact to sale has been six years! We also have a lot of shops who order within a day of first contact so it's a real mix.
- A desire to learn and to progress in sales. We’re a growing business, and as such you’ll have an opportunity to grow with us.
- You’ll be honest, decent and have high quality standards – these are our brand values
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Location:
We expect you’ll spend the majority of your time out and about visiting potential and current customers - approx three days a week out and two days in the jam factory office. We’re based in Warmley, BS30, right on the Bristol to Bath cycle path.
What’s on offer:
- £30-£40k salary dependent on experience
- Opportunity to grow and progress as the business does
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