PH1889 – Business Development Manager – Premium Foodservice Wholesale Software\n\nREWARDS: 60K-70K Basic, OTE 90K,Full company expenses and benefits\n\nExciting opportunity to sell to the Foodservice wholesale sector for a strong industry experienced BDM\n\nLOCATION: London, Watford, Chelmsford, Canterbury, Reading, Guildford\n\nTHE COMPANY:\n\nWe are an established international software provider with a strong and developing presence in the UK.\n\nBased in London, our software product range is highly innovative and is designed for the specific needs of Foodservice wholesale customers.\n\nOur solution is tailored towards the fast paced environment of Foodservice – in particular wholesalers who operate in a trading environment with short shelf life produce such as Fresh Produce, Butchery and Seafood.\n\nThe solution provides efficient connection between purchasing, stock control, online ordering, inventory, pricing and ongoing customer management – enabling our customers to as effective as possible to operate within a fast paced foodservice environment.\n\nAs a company we pride ourselves on being a great company and team to work within – and have strong growth plans for the next 12 months.\n\nTHE ROLE:\n\nThis position is focused around developing new business with Foodservice wholesale operators.\n\nA large proportion of these will be in the London area, although the role does have travel Nationally.\n\nYou will be responsible for developing initial relationships at IT Manager/Owner/MD Level and to ascertain the companies needs in terms of CRM/Customer Management and Purchasing IT systems.\n\nMany of the target customer base will be wholesalers across fresh produce, butchery, seafood and other short life foodservice shelf life products although we also successfully work with mainstream wholesalers.\n\nYou will be involved in securing contracts for our software and then onboarding and managing key commercial relationships with the accounts subsequently.\n\nThis is a great opportunity for a candidate who has strong sales experience in Foodservice but is technically minded and would thrive in a role with a strong bonus/commission structure to reward success.\n\nTHE APPLICANT.\n\nThe successful candidate will have strong new business skills and in depth experience of the UK Foodservice sector.\n\nWe have a strong preference towards candidates with experience of the sector over candidates from a software/CRM Sales background but with no knowledge of the Foodservice sector.\n\n * Candidates must have a proven track record of sales within the Foodservice sector\n\n * Candidates must have experience of working within a Foodservice wholesale environment\n\n * Candidates with strong experience of Seafood, Fresh Produce or Butchery wholesale and trading/market led Foodservice sales will be of particular experience.\n\n * Candidates must be able to demonstrate a strong new business track record and have strong IT Skills.\n\nIf you feel that this fantastic opportunity could be the right one for you please forward your CV to our retained recruitment partners at the email address below