Greene King
Sales Development Manager
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Sales Development Manager
As a Sales Development Manager, you'll blend account management and new business initiatives. The Sales Development Manager role is a commercial partner to our Free Trade customers within a designated territory.
Patch Location: East Yorkshire – YO & HU postcodes
Company Description
Join us at Greene King, the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience.
Additional Information
We’re all about rewarding our team’s hard work, that’s why…
- You’ll receive a competitive salary, pension contribution as well as:
- The chance to further your career across our well-known brands – as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career.
- Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands – so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
- Free employee assistance program – mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!
- Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels – so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.
- Refer a friend – who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could earn £1,500 for referring them!
- Wagestream – access your wage before payday for when life happens.
- Retail discounts – Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more…
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Qualifications
Your role as a Sales Development Manager
- Use effective customer account management techniques with a planned approach to present and negotiate a compelling commercial offering that delivers the sustainable profit ambition for the territory.
- At the territory level, accountable for the delivery of the Free Trade Sales strategy with a preference for own brewed products.
- Backed up by the range of products and services available, apply creative market-leading methods to support existing customers and acquire new business accounts that deliver trading profit and volume targets.
- Effective use of joint business partnerships (JBPs) that maximises the opportunity for distribution targets with our key suppliers.
- Create a planned approach to the management of the territory to release full competitive advantage of the promotional activity campaigns from the marketing teams.
- Balance the customer requirements with our exposure to risk by providing financial support to Free Trade accounts via Greene King loans of up to £750k that underpin delivery of OBV targets.
- Through partnering to understand the customer requirements, continuously improve the relationship with current and prospective accounts to make Greene King a trusted go-to partner driving sales and delivery of territory targets.
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What You’ll Bring...
- Experience as a Sales Manager with the ability to take ownership.
- Strong commercial skills, allowing you to maximise profitability.
- High-level ability in data and financial analysis to plan and implement effectively.
- Excellent negotiation skills.
- On trade experience is advantageous.
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