Zeelandia Ltd
Sales Manager
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Sales Manager
Zeelandia UK, part of the Royal Zeelandia Group, are a leading supplier of high-quality bakery ingredients, serving both Industrial and Craft bakeries across the UK. With a strong heritage in the food ingredients sector and a reputation for innovation, service, and collaboration, we partner with our customers to develop ingredient solutions that drive profitable growth.
We are now looking to recruit a Senior Sales Manager into our team, to support the delivery of the next stage of our Commercial strategy.
The Role
As Sales Manager, you will take ownership of a defined group of strategic and key accounts in the Industrial bakery manufacturing sector, identifying, developing, and converting new business opportunities, to achieve our ambitious budget.
Reporting to the Sales Director, you will also lead, coach, and develop our sales account managers to drive individual and team performance.
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You will combine your strategic mindset with hands-on execution of the Commercial plan, focusing on:
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- Lead generation
- Account relationship development
- Pipeline management
- Close collaboration with marketing, NPD, and operational colleagues to deliver exceptional results
What we are offering
- Competitive salary and benefits package including car allowance
- Culture that values collaboration, personal development, innovation, and accountability
If you are an ambitious sales manager ready to take on a high-profile, growth-focused commercial role in an established, forward-thinking business in the bakery ingredients market, we would love to hear from you.
Please note that we are unable to provide sponsorship for this role. No agencies, we are already worked with our approved and retained recruitment agencies.
Requirements
- Proven experience in sales, ideally in the bakery ingredients sector
- Commercially minded with the ability to analyze data, build commercial proposals, and accurately forecast demand
- Previous management experience leading a team, developing team skills, setting targets, and delivering through others. We would also like to hear from candidates who can demonstrate they are ready to take the next step into team leadership
- A strong track record in new business generation, account management, and pipeline development
- Hands-on and results-driven
- Excellent influencing, communication, and relationship-building skills. Comfortable to engage at all levels, internally and externally
- Collaborative mindset, understand the benefit of working closely with other functions for mutual success, happy to lead by example and support others to succeed
- Willingness to travel across the UK (occasionally overseas) and work flexibly as required
- Full UK driving license
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