WSR is recruiting for a Regional Sales Manager for our reputable client in Milton Keynes.
Regional Sales Manager – Slice & Pack
Location:
Regional – covering England, Scotland & Wales
Salary:
£60,000–£70,000 + uncapped commission
Benefits:
Company car or car allowance
We’re looking for an experienced Regional Sales Manager with a strong background in capital equipment sales within the food processing or food packaging industry.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who understands the slice and pack environment and can combine technical solution selling with strong relationship management and business development. Experience working with slicing, portioning, loading, packing or associated food production technologies is particularly important for this position, ideally within meat, poultry, cheese or prepared food environments.
Regional Sales Manager Role Overview:
You’ll take responsibility for developing business across England, Scotland and Wales, managing and growing established customer relationships while also identifying new business opportunities across the territory.
This is a varied sales role combining account development and new business, where you’ll work closely with customers to understand their production requirements, identify opportunities for capital equipment and integrated solutions, and manage projects through the full technical sales cycle.
Regional Sales Manager Key responsibilities will include:
- Developing and growing key customer accounts
- Identifying new customers, projects and capital equipment opportunities
- Building strong relationships with production, engineering, operations and procurement teams
- Conducting customer site surveys and process reviews
- Managing technical and commercial proposals
- Supporting equipment demonstrations, trials and customer visits
- Managing your sales pipeline, CRM information and forecasting
- Supporting commercial negotiations and project handovers
- Attending relevant exhibitions and industry events
- Travelling regularly throughout the UK territory, with occasional European travel
Regional Sales Manager Skills, Experience & Attributes:
You’ll be an experienced technical sales professional who is comfortable selling capital equipment and solutions into food manufacturing environments.
Ideally, you will have:
- Proven capital equipment sales experience within food processing or food packaging
- Direct knowledge of slicing and packing processes or equipment, including areas such as slicing, portioning, loading and packing
- Experience within sectors such as meat, poultry, cheese or prepared foods
- A strong track record across both account management and new business development
- Experience managing longer and more complex technical sales cycles
- A consultative, solution-led approach to sales
- Strong commercial and negotiation skills
- Confidence communicating with operational, engineering and technical stakeholders
- Good CRM and Microsoft Office skills
- The ability to manage your own regional territory independently
- Experience selling integrated production lines, automation systems or wider food production technologies would be particularly advantageous.
Regional Sales Manager Benefits:
- Company car/ car allowance
- Uncapped commission
- Holidays: 25 days (with increases based on service).
- Health: Private healthcare, digital GP access, and mental health support.
- Enhanced Pay: Generous maternity, paternity, and sick pay.
- Secure Future: Pension plan, income protection, and life assurance (4x salary).
- Employee Rewards: Recognition platform, discounts, Cycle 2 Work scheme, and more!
What’s On Offer?
This is a senior, autonomous sales opportunity offering the opportunity to develop established customer relationships while also creating new opportunities across a substantial UK territory.
If you have strong capital equipment sales experience within food production and, importantly, understand the slicing and packing side of the industry, we’d love to hear from you.
Please click ‘APPLY NOW’, or call the WSR Team at for more info. We appreciate the time and effort invested in your application.
While we strive to respond to all applicants promptly, we kindly ask for your understanding in case of delays. If you do not hear from us within 10 days of submitting your application, please assume that, unfortunately, you have not been successful this time.
We will however keep your CV on file and review your suitability against any other vacancies we may have available.
