Foodservice Sales Manager - Athens

As a Foodservice Sales Manager, you will play a key role in developing the local Foodservice business and lead implementation through appropriate allocation and deployment of sizeable resources. You will be responsible for identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and understanding what motivates Foodservice customers, ensuring long-term cooperation and profitability.

Responsibilities:

•            Develop and implement annual sales plans to achieve unit and gross profit targets.

•            Analyze market trends to drive business growth and adjust sales strategies accordingly.

•            Build and maintain strong relationships with key customers to understand their needs and ensure customer satisfaction.

•            Build and maintain strong relationships with Arla Global Foodservice team

•            Coach and lead the Foodservice sales team to meet annual/monthly sales targets and KPIs.

•            Lead the development and implementation of medium-term sales strategy across a channel, territories, product lines, market segments, an individual or a broader portfolio of customer accounts or distributors

Qualifications:

•            Minimum of 8 years of experience in a sales management role, preferably in the foodservice industry.

•            Proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets and driving business growth.

•            Strong leadership skills with significant experience (5+ years) in managing and motivating a sales team.

•            Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.

•            Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business administration, sales management, or a related field.

Application and contact

Please apply through our website with your CV in English language under reference of your salary expectations and your earliest availability. All applications will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

Equal opportunity

Arla Foods is a company with equal opportunities for everyone regardless of age, race, gender or any other criteria that is not a professional qualification for an open position. Purely for reasons of readability we have chosen to create all our job postings in male format. We explicitly look forward to all applications regardless if the candidate is male, female, diverse and will also exclude any other criteria from our screening process that is not professional qualification.

We have a purpose for Good

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

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