TOMRA Food designs and manufactures sensor-based sorting machines and integrated post-harvest solutions for the food industry, using the world's most advanced grading, sorting, peeling and analytical technology. The company's mission is to enable its customers to improve returns, gain operational efficiencies, and ensure a safe food supply via smart, useable technologies.

 TOMRA Food is a member of the TOMRA Group founded in 1972 that began with the design, manufacture, and sale of reverse vending machines (RVMs) for automated collection of used beverage containers. Today TOMRA provides technology-led solutions that enable the circular economy with advanced collection and sorting systems that optimize resource recovery and minimize waste in the food, recycling, and mining industries. This person will be operating in the Business Area TOMRA Processed Food within TOMRA Food. 

TOMRA Processed Food are looking for an Area Sales Manager for the food industry.

We offer a challenging position in an open, friendly and global environment where we help each other to develop and create value. Your work will have a big impact on TOMRA and its employee’s future success. The position will be working out of home office and travelling regularly to meet and interact with new and existing customers. 

The purpose of this position is to find real opportunities and secure sales within the UK region.  

You are self driven, ambitious, persistent and looking for business opportunies, always. You are highly motivated by customer interactions in a complex technical environment and you are a strong networker and influencer with the ability to create, develop and maintain strong customer relations. You have a professional approach and attitude towards your work and possess strong communication skill´s which allows you to interact across many levels. 

About the job: 

You will be responsible for developing several accounts within Food industry such as  agriculture, processing of potato, vegetable, fruits and protein. You will be working with TOMRA  optical sorting technologies. 

You will be part of a dynamic global team which will support and aide in your growth and development as a Sales Manager.  

Key tasks:

• Regular customer visits and interaction by visits, calls, teams, and test work 

• Maintain and foster close relationships with customers and major key accounts 

• Proactively work with your sales planning in a structured and consistent manner. 

• Build a robust sales pipeline and work to achieve sales targets 

• Assist with planning and preparing for trade shows and company events. Represent TOMRA professionally at industry events  

• Ability to establish rapport quickly with colleagues and develop productive relationships  

• Takes initiative to build and strengthen relationships with colleagues and customers 

We are looking for: 

• University degree 

• Experience from B2B 

• Experience from processing industries ideally from the food industry

• Networker & communicator at all levels 

• Relation builder that can create strong partnerships 

• Down to earth and open, honest communicator 

• Analytical thinker, able to implement a structured approach 

• Result oriented and eager to learn by listening to customers needs

How to apply
If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you! All applications will be managed in the strictest confidence.  

Don't meet all the requirements? At TOMRA we are committed to creating an inclusive, diverse workforce and supporting our people to grow into their roles.