• The Role & Key Responsibilities

  • Job Title: Sales Specialist Manager - Dairy UK

    Location: UK

    Contract: Full time, Permanent.

    Package includes Salary from £60,000, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact, including discretionary performance related bonus, car allowance, private healthcare, and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%.

    About the role

    As a Sales Specialist Manager at AB Agri, you will play a pivotal role in driving the success of our dairy sales team by leading a small group of sales specialists across either the northern or southern region of England.

    This position offers a unique blend of people management, sales strategy execution, and hands-on customer engagement within the agricultural sector.

    You will be responsible for coaching and mentoring your team to improve sales capability, managing key customer relationships, and ensuring the right products are sold to the right customers to maximise growth and profitability.

    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

    • Experience or knowledge of animal feed sales and livestock nutrition, with proven credibility and understanding of the dairy industry.
    • Proven experience in field sales, ideally with at least two to three years in a regional sales role that includes managing a team and regular travel to customer sites.
    • Strong background in business-to-business sales, with the ability to manage a sales pipeline, develop strategic sales plans, and build lasting customer relationships.
    • Demonstrated people management skills, with the ability to coach, mentor, and develop a small team of sales specialists to achieve shared goals.

Questions about this role?

If you have any questions about this role or need help applying please contact Salvatore Munago via [email protected].

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.

Sales Specialist Manager - Dairy UK

  • All Locations
    Home based
  • Job Function
    Business Development / Commercial / Sales
  • Type
    Permanent
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