With a 140-year heritage in food and brand innovation, Musgrave is one of Europe's most successful family-owned businesses. Our mission is to become the most trusted and sustainable business in Ireland, making a positive impact on the world and supporting our suppliers and customers to make a difference too.
About Us
We support thousands of retail and foodservice family businesses who live and work in the heart of the communities they serve. Our people are the heart of our business, and we aim to be the very best place to work, grow and thrive.
Job Opportunity
We have an opportunity for a Small Medium Enterprises (SME) Sales Advisor to join our Waterford Market Place team. The purpose of this role is to grow sales within the small to medium business sector, including online, corporate hampers, gifting and drive continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
* Drive sales in line with SME budget targets
* Manage online processes and customer registrations end to end
* Manage all KPIs associated with the SME channel
* Identify sales opportunities working with the Floor Manager & SME Sales Mgr to identify new target customers with sales opportunities to grow profitable sales.
Other key responsibilities include:
* Working on own initiative to seek out new business but also to drive customers who are lapsed or in decline, getting more of the basket from customers.
* Maintain proactive customer communication and engagement through different channels: mail, digital and face to face
* To ensure the wholesale standards in your area is to a consistently excellence level (merchandising, product availability, HACCP, H&S)
* Engage with all departments to grow sales and customer satisfaction
* Form strong relationships with key sales and trading colleagues
Requirements
* 2 - 3 years knowledge and sales experience, ideally in wholesale or retail
* Experience/knowledge in wholesale industry or in direct retail sales (competitors/range/customers)
* Customer focused with an ability to develop strong customer relationships
* Be fully flexible with working hours
* Go above and beyond where necessary to get the job done
* Possionate about food
* Ability to change, adapt and be flexible
* Ability to work cross functionally
* Leaving Cert or equivalent
* Full clean driving licence and access to car as some travel required
Musgrave is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from diverse candidates. If we can make any accommodations to enable you to be the best version of yourself during the interview, please let us know.