Sales Manager Bakery (m/f/d)

You bear the overall responsibility for the sales area of the bakery products and ensure that sales and earnings targets are achieved sustainably. You develop industry-specific sales strategies, continuously observe the bakery market and successfully implement derived measures. You lead the district leaders and branch teams with a situational approach: You recognize individual strengths, give constructive feedback and create an environment where employees want to grow. The targeted professional and personal development of your team is not a HR job for you, but an experienced leadership conviction. You optimize the branch organization, ensure a convincing presentation of baked goods and increase sales performance. You plan and control sales, costs and cover contributions with clear earnings orientation within the framework of the corporate objectives. You ensure the quality of daily business through efficient returns control, careful cash checks and consistent compliance with legal requirements. In cooperation with the social media team, You effectively implement marketing and advertising measures to sustainably support the sales goals. You take responsibility for site analyses of new potential branches and maintain contact with the landlords of existing sites. You actively participate in the personnel acquisition and contribute to ensuring a qualified occupation of the bakery matures. You maintain an open feedback culture, recognize conflicts at an early stage and resolve them constructively – with the aim of permanently strengthening cohesion and performance of the overall team.

You have multi-year leadership experience in sales, ideally in the infilialized retail. In-depth knowledge and experience in food and food products are particularly valuable. Backing industry, which can be used specifically for the successful further development of our client. You are an entrepreneurial thinking personality with a clear sense of market and customer needs in the bakery sector. You lead with attitude – empathic, clear and reliable, because our employees are the decisive factor. Your leadership style is situative – you know when your team needs orientation and when free space causes more than control. The ability to engage in different personalities is of course part of professional leadership for you. You have a well-founded knowledge of the market and competition analysis of the food and baking industry and develop successful sales strategies. You are characterized by strategic strength, organizational talent and decision-making. You communicate value-estimatingly and at eye level – to the store teams and employees as well as in cooperation with the management.

A responsible key position in which you can actively participate in the future of the company with a great scope of design. A dynamic and valuable working environment in a successful, future-oriented family business. The corporate culture is characterized by the values of a traditional family business, which should also be managed in this sense in the future – with personal proximity, flat hierarchies and long-term perspective. The handicraft baking tradition is of particular importance: Our client stands for high-quality, regionally anchored baked goods that are made with passion and care. This bakery craft is the basis for the success of the company and shapes the cooperation throughout the team. Short decision-making and close cooperation with the management, which allows you to directly influence strategic options. Attractive framework conditions as well as diverse possibilities for personal and professional development so that you can fully develop your potential. .