Regional Sales Manager - North (Thriplow, East of England, GB)

KWS UK Ltd. is looking for a new Regional Sales Manager - North! Are you ready to be the face of KWS in the northern market? This role will focus on delivering cross crop sales operations in Northern UK by focusing on serving customers through the optimal channels such as agencies and distributors. Your Responsibilities:

Executing cross crop sales activities for the northern region of the UK.

Actively promote KWS products to farmers, agronomists, trade representatives and others to influence purchasing decisions in favour of KWS hybrid and C2 seeds.

Analyse and understand the market situation, evaluation and future to define action plans for the region.

Feed market information back into KWS UK to support action plans for the company.

Regularly attend relevant open days, field events, trade shows etc.

Act as first point of contact for customers for product questions, complaints etc.

Design sales campaigns together with Commercial Director and marketing, price offers and contracts with customers and partners.

Distribute trial/demo seed according to sales strategy

Supports KWS in project related work.

Your Qualifications:

Preferred: academic degree in agricultural sciences, agricultural economics or similar

Minimum 3 years of work experience in Sales

Knowledge of UK agricultural market / distribution channels

Fluent English skills

Our Offer:

Key focus on professional and personal development. “Make yourself grow”.

35 working hours weekly – additional working hours will be expected based on seasonal demands (especially in July - Sep)

30 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

Highly competitive Pension Scheme with 16% Company contribution and 1.2% minimum employee contribution

Life Assurance, of three times annual salary

Income Protection Plan at 75% of salary for long-term illness and disability for a period of three years

Private Health Care Plan

Profit Related Bonus Scheme, targeted at 10% of annual salary

Membership of Lifestyles discount scheme

Reduced diesel prices from the company’s fuel pump