Field Sales Manager

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🇫🇷 France – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏙️ Outside Sales

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Jack Link's Protein Snacks

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1986

🏭 Manufacturing

👥 B2C

🍽️ Food & Beverage

Manufacturing • B2C • Food & Beverage

Jack Link's Protein Snacks is a well-known provider of high-quality meat snacks, including jerky, sticks, strips, and bars made from beef, pork, turkey, and chicken. The company offers an extensive range of flavors such as Original, Teriyaki, Peppered, and Sweet & Spicy, catering to a wide array of taste preferences. Jack Link's engages in collaborations, like the Jack Link's x Frito Lay and Jack Link's x Squid Game editions, and provides a subscription service for convenience and savings. The brand emphasizes a robust, adventurous image with its 'Feed Your Wild Side' slogan and Sasquatch mascot, appealing to consumers looking for a satisfying, protein-rich snack.

📋 Description

• Lead, support, and develop a team of 10 internal Sales Promoters • Supervise the external field sales agency in France • Translate commercial strategy, customer plans, routes to market, and brand priorities into clear field priorities and measurable objectives • Optimize territories, segmentation, visit frequency, and workload allocation • Ensure standards for distribution, availability, pricing, facings, merchandising, and promotions • Conduct regular store visits and monitor shopper, customer, and competitor behavior • Develop additional opportunities for distribution, visibility, and in-store activation • Manage key performance indicators, dashboards, objectives, analyses, and corrective actions • Ensure reliable reporting on visits, availability, in-store activations, execution, and incremental gains • Communicate field insights, risks, and recommendations to leadership and cross-functional teams • Collaborate with Sales, Key Account Management, Category Management, Marketing, and Supply Chain teams • Build relationships with regional customer contacts and key in-store decision-makers • Manage budgets, travel, samples, point-of-sale materials, expenses, and company assets • Lead agency governance and ensure compliance with legal, customer, internal, and ethical standards

🎯 Requirements

• Citizenship of an EU country and/or a valid work permit is required • All applications must be submitted in English, the company’s official language • A bachelor’s degree or equivalent (minimum three years of higher education) in business, sales, marketing, or a related discipline is preferred • Equivalent management experience in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector may be considered • At least five years of commercial or field sales experience in the FMCG sector • Proven experience managing and supporting a geographically dispersed team • Experience managing a sizeable internal field sales force and overseeing an external service provider—including performance indicators, service levels, and performance reviews—is highly preferred • Strong understanding of the French modern grocery retail environment, store operations, and execution requirements of major food retailers • Ability to drive performance and develop the sales capabilities of geographically dispersed teams • Strong understanding of distribution, product availability, merchandising, promotions, and consumer sales drivers • Ability to translate data into clear priorities and actions • Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint • Comfortable using CRM, field sales force automation, dashboard, and reporting tools • Fluency in French is required • Professional proficiency in English is highly preferred • A valid driving licence is required • Willing and able to travel frequently throughout France, including regular field accompaniment and overnight stays • Valid authorization to work in France is required

🏖️ Benefits

• No relocation assistance will be provided for this position • Equal employment opportunity