Field Sales Territory Account Manager

Do you want to be in the driver’s seat selling our global leadership brands? Do you want to build long-term business relationships with our customers? Then Sales at Procter & Gamble is the right place to kick-start your career and leadership development.

P&G Professional is a leading manufacturer and marketer of away from home products. We produce and sell cleaning and laundry products targeting at professional end users in the Hospitality, Health Care and Restaurants industry.

Some of your responsibilities as an account manager will include:

• Grow P&G business within your geographical territory by selling our professional line of cleaning and laundry products to end-users in the focus areas of Hospitality, Healthcare, and Restaurants
• Develop business building ideas and sell these ideas to our accounts, as well as lead their implementation.
• Market products which will enable customers to meet their consumers' needs in the "away from home" food area.
• Support and collaborate with local distributors in the Food & Janitorial industries.

For you, the sales process begins with understanding your commercial customers’ (distributor or end-user) business, then utilizing available information (P&G and customers’) to explain the business building opportunities, and, finally persuading our customer to accept the recommendation for one or more specific courses of action. You will need to develop expertise in areas such as product knowledge and technical support as well.

This is a field sales role, you will be location free but your territory will cover Birmingham and the South West region.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for individuals who are leaders, have a real passion for building customer relationships and have a history of making things happen. We are seeking analytical thinkers and problem solvers, as well as excellent communicators. We are looking for someone who can set priorities and follow through on commitments, as well as demonstrate creativity, innovation, and initiative.

• A bachelors/masters degree in any discipline.
• Valid Driver’s license.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.

What we offer you:

• Responsibilities as of Day 1 – From the beginning you will be doing a full-time job in sales, managing your own account with a retailer.
• Continuous coaching – You will work with passionate people and receive both formal training as well as day-to-day mentoring from your manager.
• Dynamic and respectful work environment – Employees are at the core, we value every individual and encourage initiatives, promoting flexible working arrangements and work/life balance.
• A job in P&G Sales offers a competitive salary as well as other great benefits such as a company car, great pension, share schemes, 24 days' holiday entitlement (increasing with duration of service) and a medical insurance plan.

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