There’s every chance you’ll have eaten our food, so why not share our success and come and work for us? Bidfood is a leading wholesale food distributor and the preferred supplier for over 60,000 customers across the UK, ranging from pubs to schools, from restaurants to care homes and everything in between.

From Lands End to John O’Groats, whether our customers want just a teaspoon or a full range of catering supplies, we’ll supply their needs. We work as a team to provide every food option from quality ingredients to finished meals, including a number of own brand ranges as well as all the big brands and regional specialties. We believe in our food, and we know that our people are so very important in our success.

The telesales team forms an essential part of our depot by ensuring customer orders are taken in an efficient and professional manner.

You’ll be responsible for making outbound calls to take our customers’ normal orders. You’ll be required to manage your own customer base and through careful analysis of on screen data and account statistics, you will help every customer to buy across our product range, selling in new lines, link and gap selling, and maximizing customer spend. You will be required to tender effectively and successfully for new business within the existing customer base, and strive to achieve growth targets set. There will be opportunities for off site visits to customers within your base where face to face sales are needed.

We need you to have a key mix of skills and be able to deploy them effectively when required and in accordance with changing customer demands. Firstly you will need good experience of solving a variety of customer problems, plus an understanding of sales techniques that will enable you to recognize and maximize sales opportunities as they arrive. Finally, you’ll bring the dexterity and organisation needed to effectively and accurately key orders at speed.

You will be a strong and natural communicator and team player, with the ability to work successfully on your own, making decisions that are commercially viable for the business whilst meeting the needs of the customers’. You will used to working in a busy and challenging environment. You will be motivated, organised, flexible and driven to achieve results whilst building effective working relationships over the telephone.

If this is you, then we look forward to hearing from you.

 

Benefits

4%/4% matched pension scheme rising to 6%/6% with service, 25 days (plus bank holidays) funded healthcare cash plan for you and your family, digital GP, life assurance, employee discounts, employee helpline and counselling, free onsite parking.

Apply

To apply, please complete an application form which can be collected at the depot, or send your CV with a covering letter:

Name and job title: Jo Hobbs Telesales Manager

Address:  Lee Mill Industrial Estate, Central Avenue, Ivy bridge, Devon, PL21 9EW

Email: johobbs@bidfood.co.uk