National Sales Team Manager - Bovine Genetics

Do you enjoy balancing strategy, customer relationships, and hands-on team development?

Are you someone who likes to lead from the front and help others improve?

This role offers a genuine mix of home working, customer visits, and time spent out in the field with your team.

You’ll take responsibility for the UK side of a well-established international company in bovine genetics, focusing on sales performance, customer relationships, and, importantly, developing your people.

The opportunity:

Reporting to the International Regional Sales Manager, you will have full commercial responsibility for the UK business, leading a team of seven business development Mmanagers located across the UK’s key dairy regions.

You will spend most of your time with customers and alongside your BDMs, allowing you to focus on:

• Driving sales performance

• Strengthening farmer relationships

• Coaching and developing your team through hands on leadership

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading and supporting a team of field-based sales representatives across the UK

• Working from home to manage plans, performance, and communication

• Visiting dairy farmers and key customers to build strong relationships

• Spending regular time in the field with your team, coaching and training them during real customer interactions

• Helping each team member improve their sales approach and grow their accounts

• Driving overall sales performance across the UK

• Feeding back market insights and customer feedback to the wider business

• Representing the company at industry events and farmer meetings

Your profile:

You will be an established and credible commercial professional within the dairy sector, comfortable operating at farmer level while leading others.

You are likely to bring:

• Experience selling into the dairy or agricultural sector (ideally bovine genetics or similar)

• A strong track record of building relationships with farmers

• Experience managing, mentoring, or training salespeople

• Someone who enjoys developing others and improving team performance

• A practical, grounded approach with the ability to balance planning and time in the field

• Good commercial awareness

What you can expect:

• Home based role with regular/daily UK travel

• Competitive salary with performance related bonus

• Company vehicle or car allowance

• Pension and benefits package

• The opportunity to build and lead the UK Business

To apply:

If this role is of interest and you would like more information, please call George Clayton on 01885 485525 or email me at george.clayton@delacyexecutive.co.uk

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