This a 100% remote GERMAN REGIONAL FIELD SALES role for someone who is based in Germany If you speak fluent GERMAN and ENGLISH and love the freedom to be out of the office meeting potential restaurant owners and representatives of supermarkets, this is a wonderful role in which you will join a growing specialist food business that sells high-end Chinese foods into the UK, Europe and beyond. The role is very autonomous and you will be talking to (and visiting ) existing and new customers (all are supermarkets, restaurants, caterers and retailers ), attending food-events and developing new business as well as introducing customers to new CHINESE food flavours and products. You must have a sales background and a food-related background. There are excellent career opportunities in this expanding sector at the moment.
Title: GERMAN FIELD SALES MANAGER
L ocation : Anywhere in Germany .
Work style : 100% remote and on-the-road
Languages required : Fluent German & English
Salary Between Eu45k-60k per annum + performance related bonus's
Work style : Field sales ( out-and-about visiting new and existing customers )
Team: CHINESE food flavours
Travel involved : Yes. all over Germany and Europe ( travel expenses will be re-imbursed)
Start date : asap
Car Driver : Essential
Essential background : Field sales experience and a food distribution background
Company details : This is a well-established food import/export business that specialises in importing specialists food products from China and supplies supermarkets and restaurant chains. The company has gone through a recent explosion in growth as a result of the increased interest in home-cooking that started during Covid. People are now experimenting with new flavours and new dishes and this company has been able to expand strongly to accommodate increasingly sophisticated and international dishes. In this role you will introduce your retail clients to new products, build new relationships with prospects all over Europe and the UK, arrange visits and do new business development
Duties
Sales & business development
* Contact potential or existing customers to promote products to supermarkets
* Arrange visits to existing customers and also new potential customers
* Introduce customers to new tastes and flavours (and recipes)
* Liaise with the sales order processing team in the office in The Hague who will do your order processing for you
* Negotiate sales volumes and new supplier contracts
* Constantly visit existing customers to ensure that they are happy with the products and service
* You will work to agreed sales targets that you will have input into
REQUIREMENTS:
* Fluent German and English
* Previous experience in Sales
* Food background is essential
* Car driver essential