Sales Specialist Manager - North in Peterborough

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Location: Covering the North of England, from Birmingham upwards

Contract: Full time, Permanent.

Package includes Salary from 65,000 plus matched pension contributions, plus car / car allowance, plus performance related bonus and access to flexible benefits that support your development, wellbeing and everyday life.

About the role: We’re looking for a sales manager to lead and develop our commercial activity in the northern region of the UK, covering areas above Birmingham, with a particular focus on the dairy sector. This is a fantastic opportunity to represent KW, a well-respected name within the industry, known for providing innovative and effective feed solutions for ruminants. As part of the wider AB Agri group, your contribution will also be pivotal to our ongoing growth and innovation across the agricultural sector. In this role, you’ll drive sales of our ruminant feed range alongside wider agricultural products, working closely with customers to support their businesses and build long-term relationships. You'll play a key part in growing KW’s presence and ensuring our customers across the northern region continue to benefit from our trusted, high-performance nutritional solutions.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead and manage a team of five to six sales specialists within your designated region, providing coaching, mentoring, and performance management to drive sales effectiveness and team capability.
• Oversee pipeline management, ensuring sales opportunities are progressed efficiently and aligned with the company’s strategic objectives.
• Collaborate closely with consultant leads to coordinate customer engagement, deciding the best approach for each account based on relationship strength, growth potential, and sales strategy.
• Maintain and grow your own portfolio of high-value customers, focusing on selling high-margin, performance products that meet customer needs and drive business growth.
• Conduct regular farm visits to provide product advice and support to dairy farmers, reinforcing strong customer relationships and understanding of their evolving requirements.

What we're looking for:

• Proven team management experience.
• Proven experience in field sales, ideally with at least two to three years in a regional sales role.
• Strong background in business-to-business sales, with the ability to manage a sales pipeline, develop strategic sales plans, and build lasting customer relationships.
• Experience or knowledge of animal feed sales and livestock nutrition, with proven credibility and understanding of the dairy industry would be desirable.

Rewarding your passion: When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About us: We’re AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support just let us know.

Application Notes: We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales: AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Questions about this role? If you have any questions about this role or need help applying please contact Salvatore Munago via Salvatore.Munago@abagri.com.

Supporting your application: We work with a number of external partners to ensure that our application process is as comfortable as possible, regardless of your circumstances or background.