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Job Title:  Sales Manager   
Location: London N1C – Site moving to Enfield from summer 2025
Job type: Full-time, Permanent
Working days/hours: Monday – Friday 40hrs
Salary/Rate of pay: Competitive Salary
Closing date: 6th September 2024
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About us
Daily Fish supplies has been around a long time! Since 1984, where we started trading from Exmouth market we have grown into a very reputable supplier to some of London’s top restaurants and professional kitchens, such as Michelin star restaurants, hotels, casinos, sports stadiums, universities and contract caterers; all within the M25. 
 
Ethical Sourcing, animal welfare, sustainability, provenance and traceability are all paramount to everything we stand for. We work closely with NGOs such as MSC maintain the highest standards within our industry. Not only that we are BRC accredited, and are managed by passionate people with many years of experience in the seafood industry.
 
Daily Fish also forms part Direct Seafood’s within the Bidfresh Group, a principal British supplier of fresh meat, fish and produce to the catering industry; a national supplier with strong local heritage.
 
If you are enthusiastic and actively seek to understand the specific needs of our different customers, look to regularly exceed their expectations and enjoy working in a fast paced environment, then this is an exciting time for you to join our dynamic team within a leading foodservices business.


What we can offer you
It is really important to us to make sure we are focused in making things happen in the right areas for our employees. We have a diverse team and we are proud at being receptive to everyone’s different needs and priorities. With this in mind we offer a great range of employee benefits that focus on wellbeing and financial needs:
-Health care cash plan which gives you money back on everyday medical costs such as Prescriptions, Opticians, dentists, 24/7 access to a digital GP and more!
-Access to free confidential support and counselling
-Discount to a number of high street brands
-Employee saving scheme 
-Pension scheme which offers 3% employer contribution and  5% employee with the option for you to increase your contributions 
-28 days holiday (Including Bank holidays)
-Performance bonus every quarter

 
About the Role
We are currently looking for an experienced Sales Manager to manage the day to day and long term vision of our sales strategy. The Sales Manager is accountable for the targeted sales levels and productivity targets for the depot through the effective leadership of their account managers and Business Development mangers.  You will be given autonomy in your role and encouraged to implement new ideas in order to lead your team to success. You will also have a hands on approach and possess the ability to effectively coach your team in order to achieve conversion and sales targets whilst effectively building good relationships with internal and external stakeholders to achieve our vision of “being every chef’s first choice”.
We offer a wide range of development opportunities within Daily Fish, where training is provided to improve your skills and knowledge, allowing the opportunity to grow.


​You’ll have:
  • Strong leadership skills and an ability to inspire sales teams.
  • Previous experience successfully managing sales teams ideally from a Foodservice industry
  • Ability to deliver professional sales training would be a strong advantage.
  • Proven track record of achieving targets and driving sales growth in a business
  • Customer driven with a collaborative and hands-on approach
  • Ability to think and act in a commercial way that makes sustainable profit
  • Thorough knowledge and understanding of, our marketplace and the food industry generally
  • Relationship and account management to a high level of professionalism and effectiveness
  • Challenging, yet Intrepid with the ability to perform effectively in complex and difficult environments
  • Team focussed with  the ability to achieve success through others
  • Key decision maker with regards to winning new business v retention and growth of existing accounts


To apply:
Please send your CV to: Matt Lane, Business Unit Director - [email protected]