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Join this well known garden trade supplier with a fantastic product range

Inherit a well established sales area with high earnings potential

Enjoy a package that offers an open ended quarterly bonus

Job Description

• Ideally based in the East Midlands or Yorkshire, you will use your planning skills to efficiently cover a sales area between Norwich and Newcastle upon Tyne.
• Visiting an established base of garden centre customers.
• Review sell-through of existing lines and suggest range extensions.
• Introductions of new products and categories.
• In-store merchandising and training as required.
• Build close relationships with owners, buyers and store sales teams.
• Conduct annual range reviews and recommend improvements.
• Support company events and UK trade shows and European sales meetings.

About the Company

• With a reputation for sourcing and supplying innovative, beautiful and functional products for the home and garden, this family owned European business has thousands of discerning retail customers.
• The UK sales team is a committed and passionate group of people who put customer relationships first.

Key Skills/Experience Required

• We are looking for an experienced Sales Representative who is calling on garden centres and has a proven ability to build relationships with store owners and managers.
• Excellent territory planning and time management skills.
• Capacity to manage a large product range, retaining focus on best-sellers.
• A natural people person who builds relationships easily.
• Persuasive and able to inspire customers to try something new.
• Great team player.

Salary/Benefits Information

• The job holder will receive a negotiable basic salary plus an open ended quarterly bonus.
• They also offer a hybrid company car, mobile, laptop, iPad and pension plan.

Contact

• Nick Hester
• Job Reference: NH/97800

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Should you not hear from us within 3 working days please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please be advised that if unsuccessful for this role we may keep your details in our hold file, during which time you may be contacted for other suitable vacancies. If you do not want us to do this please call us to advise.

In the meantime, we would like to thank you for your interest in Cavendish Maine.

Miscellaneous

• Seniority level: Not Applicable
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Sales, Business Development, and General Business
• Industries: Retail Building Materials and Garden Equipment and Furniture and Home Furnishings Manufacturing

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