About Savona
Savona is a leading independent foodservice wholesaler with over 50 years of experience supplying chefs, caterers, and hospitality professionals across the South of England. What truly sets us apart isn’t just our products – it’s our people, our culture, and our customer-first mindset.
We’re a business built on relationships. Every order, every delivery, every conversation is driven by one simple value: put the customer at the heart of everything we do. Our team takes pride in going the extra mile – anticipating needs, solving problems, and delivering a service experience that is personal, reliable, and refreshingly genuine.
We work fast, stay flexible, and think differently. As an independent company, we have the freedom to innovate, to act quickly, and to put doing the right thing above all else. Collaboration and integrity guide how we work – with our customers, our partners, and each other.
At Savona, you’ll join a team that values initiative, celebrates fresh ideas, and supports each other to grow. We’re passionate about food, serious about service, and proud of the reputation we’ve built.
Purpose of Role
As a Business Development Executive, you will play a key role in supporting the growth of Savona, helping us strengthen relationships with existing customers while identifying exciting new opportunities. This role offers a fantastic chance to develop your commercial acumen, analytical skills and industry knowledge, whilst working in a collaborative, high-energy environment that values initiative, creativity and results.
Accountabilities
- Must be highly self-motivated to achieve agreed goals.
- First point of contact for customer sales
- Identify and develop new sales opportunities
- Identify opportunities and action within existing customers.
- Identify opportunities for new products, promotional & clearance lines.
- Participation in Product Knowledge Development.
- Focus on delivering great customer service to ensure customer retention by passing queries in full to the customer service team
- Able to manage own time and prioritise workload with the ability to work under own initiative as well as part of a team.
- Excellent communication & listening skills with a positive attitude.
- Maintenance of customer records inc.
- Working closely with the all the sales team and all other departments within the business to develop mutual respect at all times.
Employee Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Reward and recognition scheme
- Long service awards
- Company Pension scheme
- Death in service benefit
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to discounted food
- Non-contibutory Cash Health Plan Scheme
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £26,227.50 per year
Work Location: In person
