JACKSON HOGG
Business Development Manager - South East
Business Development Manager - South East at JACKSON HOGG, based in United Kingdom. This is a permanent role.
- Pay
- Not given by the employer
- Hours and contract
- Permanent · On site
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Closing date
- Sector
- Business Development
Reference 16426
About the role
Business Development Manager – FMCG
South East
We are delighted to be supporting the appointment of a driven Business Development Manager to support growth across a key South East territory - - covering London, Kent, Surrey across to Southampton, up to Ipswich and Cambridgeshire.
This is a customer-facing, field-based role focused on developing new business and growing existing accounts across the Foodservice Wholesale and Vending sectors.
What you’ll do
South East
We are delighted to be supporting the appointment of a driven Business Development Manager to support growth across a key South East territory - - covering London, Kent, Surrey across to Southampton, up to Ipswich and Cambridgeshire.
This is a customer-facing, field-based role focused on developing new business and growing existing accounts across the Foodservice Wholesale and Vending sectors.
What you’ll do
- Drive sales growth and increase gross profit across your territory
- Win new business and expand relationships within Foodservice and Vending customers
- Manage and retain existing customer accounts, ensuring long-term partnership value
- Identify and convert new opportunities through proactive, needs-based selling
- Maximise sales opportunities through understanding customer requirements and trends
- Maintain strong knowledge of product ranges across drinks, snacks, and consumables
- Monitor competitor activity and market trends to stay commercially competitive
- Collaborate with internal teams and suppliers to deliver value to customers
- Manage territory activity, including regular travel and customer visits
- Proven experience in a field-based sales or Business Development role (5+ years)
- Experience within Foodservice, wholesale or FMCG environments (desirable)
- Track record of delivering profitable sales growth
- Strong commercial awareness with the ability to interpret and act on financial data
- Tenacious, driven, and proactive approach to winning and growing business
- Excellent relationship-building skills with the ability to engage business owners
- Down-to-earth, persuasive, and customer-focused approach
- Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel and stay away regularly
- Market-leading wholesale distributor with a strong industry reputation
- Established product portfolio across multiple high-demand categories
- Structured onboarding with field training and supplier exposure
- Clear opportunity for career progression and succession planning
- Competitive salary + bonus
- Company car
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Company pension
- Laptop & mobile phone
- Additional brand-led incentives
Reference: 16426 · Posted 3 months ago · Closes 25 Jan 2027 · Listed via JACKSON HOGG
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