Japanese Organic Foods Company is seeking for International Sales
International Sales
Salary: 35-45K Depending on experience
Location: West London, hybrid
- Relationships
- Maintaining a good understanding of trends, and industry movements in key markets
- Maintaining adequate and consistent communication with customers to help keep Their Brand and the Organic agenda at the front of their minds.
- Arranging meetings and visits where beneficial
- Managing customer official documentation
- Managing and responding to account queries
- Heading up complex projects or issues related to your customers
- Analysis and Execution
- Tracking sales vs budgets
- Analysing company sales data to draw insights for your own portfolio. Gap-analyses, cross-selling, up-selling.
- Introducing new products and create and oversee successful launch plans with customers
- Arranging appropriate promotion plans and marketing activities maximise sales in line with them or customer promotional and marketing plans
- Managing promotional and marketing spend in line with forecasted budgets.
- Communication
- Working closely with the Sales Office Team to help deliver a fantastic and positive customer experience at all stages of the sales process.
- Working closely with the Supply Chain team by analysing sales and providing forecasts, where necessary, to ensure stock availability for launches and promotions whilst keeping wastage to a minimum.
- Communicating and implementing price increases
- Discovering and creating new business opportunities to further our Organic impact!
- Helping in the planning and organising of customer trade shows in various countries.
- Advocate and helping deliver the International newsletter, a bi-monthly communique to all international customers that updates them on recent their events. For example, new launches, campaigns, item assets.
- Helping to raise accessibility and visibility of their webpage in the international community.
Travel involved in this role:
- Visits to customers: Potentially once a month. Duration dependent on goals and territory.
- Trade shows 2/3 times per year, sometimes exhibiting, and other times attending.
Qualifications, Experience:
- Relevant academic qualifications (A level, Degree, professional etc)
- Strong background in the Organic and Natural Foods Industry, with experience of selling similar products to the their range
- Proven track record of achieving sales results and meeting targets in similar market sectors
- Prior sales experience with International wholesalers (ideally 2 years)
Skills / Aptitude:
- Highly numerate and skilled with data analysis / reporting
- Good general office skills on Microsoft products:
- MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, MSTeams
- Self-motivating, entrepreneurial drive
- Interest in cooking a wide range of cuisines and environmental / sustainable issues
Other criteria
- Fluent English required.
- German, Italian and Scandinavian languages would be beneficial. Other languages welcome.
- Able to travel around the UK and abroad as needed
- Living within manageable commute to Acton, London.
General Terms and Conditions
- Probationary period of 6 months