Business Development Manager - South East
16426
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
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Consultant
Sarah Garner
Sarah is a Senior Consultant and joined Jackson Hogg in May 2026, bringing with her six years of recruitment experience. She specialises in junior to mid-level commercial roles, including sales and business development, commercial management, and bids and proposals. Sarah is passionate about delivering tailored solutions for her clients while building strong, long-lasting relationships with candidates.
Outside of work, she enjoys travel and the outdoors but these days you'll mostly find her chasing after her one year old twin boys at the farm or soft play.
Sales & Commercial Management (Product)
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