Sales Executive
Location: Salisbury
Salary: £27,750 basic salary + incentives
OTE: Earn up to an additional £12,000 per year through our bonus scheme
Where could your journey take you?
Do you enjoy building relationships, helping customers and achieving results?
At Bidfood, our Sales Executives play a vital role in helping customers grow their businesses while driving sales across our product range. If you're commercially minded, customer-focused and motivated by achieving targets, we'd love to hear from you.
Whether you've worked in sales, telesales, account management or a customer service role where you've developed strong commercial skills, this could be the perfect next step in your career.
Make our journey your journey and join a team where your success is recognised and rewarded.
Play an important part in our journey
As a Sales Executive, you'll become a trusted partner to your customers, building strong relationships and helping them get the most from Bidfood's products and services.
Using phone, email and digital channels, you'll identify opportunities to grow sales, recommend products and provide outstanding support that keeps customers coming back.
No two days are the same. One moment you could be helping a customer place an order, the next you'll be identifying opportunities to increase sales, discuss new products or support a customer in growing their business.
What you'll be doing
- Building strong relationships with customers through regular contact
- Taking customer orders and providing product recommendations
- Identifying opportunities to upsell and cross-sell products
- Helping customers discover new products and promotions
- Analysing buying patterns and identifying sales opportunities
- Supporting customers with enquiries and resolving issues professionally
- Working towards individual and team sales targets
- Delivering excellent customer service on every interaction
What we're looking for
- Previous experience in sales, telesales, account management or a customer-facing role
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills
- Confidence speaking with customers over the phone
- A commercial mindset and enthusiasm for achieving targets
- The ability to identify sales opportunities and add value for customers
- Good organisational skills and attention to detail
- A positive attitude and a genuine passion for customer service
Why join us?
At Bidfood, we know that great businesses are built by great people. That's why we're committed to supporting your development and helping you build a rewarding career.
You'll receive training, ongoing support and opportunities to develop your knowledge, sales skills and career within one of the UK's leading foodservice providers.
In return, you'll enjoy:
- Competitive salary and incentive scheme
- The opportunity to earn additional bonus payments
- Career development and progression opportunities
- A supportive and friendly team environment
- Employee benefits and wellbeing support
- The chance to build a long-term career with a market-leading business
Ready to take the next step in your journey? Apply today and make our journey your journey.
Our journey began back in 1929. Since then, we’ve continued to build a strong and resilient business with a great future. It's why we believe we’re the best foodservice provider in the country.
A journey that gives back
We want your career with us to be as rewarding as possible. So, you’ll get lots in return for your hard work. That includes benefits that can support your wellbeing and financial security, and give you peace of mind.
The essentials
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) as a minimum and the opportunity to buy more
- A pension - contribute 4% and we’ll match you (after year 1, we’ll match your contributions up to 6%).
- Life cover that you can increase.
- Access to confidential support and counselling, when you need it.
- A health plan that gives you money back on everyday medical costs for all the family, as well as access to a digital GP.
The extras
- Exclusive range of high street discounts including cinema, tech, travel, fashion, food and drink.
- Get paid as you earn - access to up to 20% of your pay before payday.
- Opportunity to buy dental cover and critical illness cover.
We want everyone to join our journey
We’re on a journey towards creating the best possible workplace. We’ve got some way to go, but we’re building a diverse and caring workforce. One that’s filled with forward-thinking people who each bring unique talents and skills. So whatever your life experience, we want you to join us - and you really can come as you are!
