At Joseph Joseph we love solving everyday problems through intelligent design to create distinctive, functional products that are a pleasure to own and use. We are one of the world’s leading houseware brands with a global presence spanning over 100 countries, available in most major department stores and independent houseware stores worldwide as well as our rapidly growing ecommerce channel.

We are looking for an Area Sales Manager to join the team. Reporting to the Country Manager for the UK you will be supporting the National Account Managers to evolve the Accounts within the Dept. Stores Houseware/Beauty & Grocery (Food & Non-Food) as well as the Mass Merchandiser Channel, driving business opportunities. Managing relationships with customers, finding innovative ways to market our products, ensure and secure listings and POS positioning and help to grow the brand. We are looking for a hands on, a self-starter and a problem-solver. You will engage closely with your peers in Sales, Customer Service, Demand Planning & Logistics, Finance & Controlling in the UK. It is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious individual who wants to be involved in making a real difference, to fully realise the potential of the brand by utilising your local market expertise. The ideal candidate must demonstrate they are results driven and unwavering to achieve the company’s goals.

What you will be doing:

• Develop a strong network and customer relationships, to increase partners engagement and
• commitment to the brand.
• Optimise existing commercial relationships and actively pursue new business opportunities
• Support with increasing sales and profitability by market strategy implementation, sales concept creation and active business management delivering sales pitch presentations
• Achieve listings, create strong promotions, implement Planogram & POS strategies, optimize
• sales condition, negotiate prices, reliably plan demand & solve customer problems in line with JJ’s brand & market strategy
• Diligently work & efficiently communicate with internal stakeholders such as trade marketing, customer service, demand planning, finance & controlling to ensure mutual understanding of customer needs and JJ’s go-to-market strategy requirements
• Optimize service to the customer to increase JJ’s retail footprint & to strengthen brand
• visibility within your area
• Participation in Industry fairs, specific events, and sales meetings
• Constantly benchmark and collect market & shopper insights within your accounts and provide feedback to the Country Manager

What we need from you:

• Experience working within a sales environment as a Field Sales/Territory Manager
• Strong established relationship and network within accounts
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment
• Knowledge of accounts who deal in the housewares market is an advantage
• Being commercially astute
• Shares and shows entrepreneurial mind-set
• Well organised, hard-working, and highly motivated
• Enthusiastic and action-orientated
• A strong networker & influencer of customers
• Strong presenter & excellent communicator towards customers, peers, and senior stakeholders
• Analytically and numerically strong underlined by MS office skills
• An ability to work without close supervision
• Strong commercial and negotiation skills
• High Willingness to travel

What you will get from us:

• Competitive salary and holiday allowance
• Company performance related bonus
• A pension contribution
• An exclusive staff discount
• External private employee wellbeing support
• Access to Perkbox
• Season-ticket travel loan
• Holiday trading (buy/sell) and extra holiday days for long service