Senior Sales Executive

Kingsdown Water Company; Walmer; On-site; GBP 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A premium beverage company based in Walmer is seeking a talented individual for a full-time business development role. Responsibilities include managing new business, developing marketing strategies, and enhancing online presence. The ideal candidate will have strong communication and negotiation skills, with a keen interest in the hospitality industry. The role offers a basic salary of £35k plus OTE bonus and requires UK travel for meetings and trade shows.

Benefits

OTE bonus

Laptop

Mobile

Qualifications

• Experience in a sales or business development role is advantageous.
• Strong interest in food and drink, hospitality, and the restaurant industry.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage online presence through website and social media channels.
• Design marketing materials and attend trade shows for promotions.
• Manage new business development in the on-trade and off-trade markets.

Skills

Negotiating skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Relationship building skills

Marketing

Tools

Microsoft Office

Sage Accounts

Job description

Kingsdown is looking for a talented, ambitious individual to join our team and contribute towards developing the Kingsdown brand at a very exciting time for the business. This position presents an excellent opportunity for the right person to play a key role in Kingsdown’s growth over the years to come.

Kingsdown Water - established and leading brand of premium glass bottled spring water supplied into a wide range of restaurants, hotels, and bars, as well as retail outlets, across the UK. Listings include The Savoy, The Wolseley, Malmaison, Hotel du Vin, Tate, Brasserie Blanc, Marstons, Young’s, and Shepherd Neame.

Kingsdown Sparkling Pressés - premium soft drinks which target the rapidly growing adult soft drinks sector - made from spring water and meticulously sourced natural juices and blended to produce premium quality soft drinks with eye catching beautifully designed packaging.

Role

Basic salary £35k plus OTE bonus £10k+, laptop, mobile, office based (Walmer, CT14), Monday to Friday 08.30 to 17.30.

The role is permanent and full time and will focus primarily on developing new business and managing new and existing accounts across the UK so as to ensure enduring commercial relationships. The emphasis will be on sales into the on trade market (restaurants, hotels, pubs etc) with both direct supply and indirect supply through drinks and food service distributors. There will also be opportunities to develop new business in the off trade market (farm shops, delis, grocery stores, online etc).

Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include working on marketing and building the Kingsdown brand, including developing and managing our online presence through our website and the usual social media channels; designing and producing marketing materials (POS, sales flyers, advertisements for trade publications etc); and attending trade shows and other events in order to promote Kingsdown and develop new business. There will be a requirement to travel within the UK to attend meetings, trade shows etc, sometimes involving overnight stays.

Experience/Qualities

The successful candidate will be confident, out-going, articulate (both spoken and written), resilient, fearless, dynamic, and have a keen interest in food and drink, restaurants, hotels, and all things related to the hospitality industry. They will have strong negotiating and communication skills - over the phone, electronically, and in person, and will have excellent organisational skills, and relationship building skills.

• Experience of working with Microsoft Office is essential; experience of working with Sage Accounts, or similar accounting software, and Photoshop or similar image editing software, is preferred but is not essential.