Area Manager (m/f/d) – Foodservice / Catering for Giessen, Offenbach, Hanau and Aschaffenburg
Are you familiar with the hospitality industry, do you understand your customers, and are you keen to actively develop your own territory? If so, we have a field sales role for you that offers a great deal of personal responsibility and creative freedom. As a district manager, you’ll be close to our customers, identify opportunities on the ground and develop your territory with an entrepreneurial mindset. 🤝This involves more than just traditional customer service: we’re looking for someone who enjoys getting out and about, spots opportunities and gets things moving – with sales talent, initiative and a genuine interest in our customers. 🚀
Permanent
100%
ab sofort
German
What we offer
We offer professional development opportunities in an international environment. We offer a wide range of further training programmes and regular training courses on our training campus.
All employees have the opportunity to take advantage of sports, leisure and wellness programmes throughout Germany with HANSEFIT.
A variety of company events ensure a great community and a family atmosphere at work.
Our attractive additional financial benefits include a company pension scheme, holiday pay, special annual bonus, employee participation and anniversary payments.
Your tasks
- You will actively develop your sales territory and take responsibility for customer and sales growth in your district.
- You’ll be working closely with customers: a significant part of your week will be spent on site with our customers – engaging directly with kitchens, businesses and decision-makers.
- You will further build on existing customer relationships and secure new customers and business opportunities.
- You identify needs and sales opportunities and use these to develop suitable solutions for your customers.
- You plan your customer visits and activities independently and organise your territory efficiently.
- You monitor market developments and use your insights to tap into new opportunities.
- You work closely with retail, Key Account Management and the back office, ensuring that opportunities are capitalised on jointly.
- You take a holistic approach to sales: What matters most to you is not the channel through which a customer places an order, but how we can develop that relationship together and support the customer successfully in the long term.
- You contribute new ideas, challenge existing approaches and play an active part in shaping changes and new sales channels.
What you bring with you
- You enjoy being out and about, are approachable, and can win others over to your ideas. At the same time, you work independently and take responsibility for your results.
- Experience in direct customer contact and a passion for sales, advising and networking
- A background in the restaurant trade, institutional catering, catering or the hotel industry – or alternatively, experience in foodservice field sales
- Experience as a head chef, deputy head chef, sous chef, operations manager or catering manager also provides excellent principles for joining us
- A structured, independent and solution-oriented approach to work
- Strong communication skills, a commitment to others and a good understanding of different customers
- An entrepreneurial mindset and the ambition not only to manage your territory but to actively develop it further
- Openness to change, new distribution channels and collaboration with various sales partners
Any more questions?
I'm happy to help
I'm happy to help
This is what our application process looks like:
Thank you for your application! We have received your documents and will get back to you as soon as possible.
We would like to get to know you and your motivation better in the first introductory meeting – let us have a relaxed chat and find out together whether we are a good match.
In the second interview, we will get to know each other better and talk about your skills and the next steps at our company – we look forward to continuing our dialogue with you. For some positions, an assessment may still be required - if this is the case, you will be informed in good time.
Congratulations, you have won us over and we you! We are now finalising the process and look forward to welcoming you to our team soon.
