Regional Sales Manager

Job Description

Are you passionate about leading, coaching, and inspiring a team of salespeople?

At Butternut Box, our Direct Sales team attends hundreds of events, trade shows and exhibitions to connect directly with customers and share our mission of spreading more health and happiness to dogs all over the world. As the Regional Sales Manager for London, you’ll lead a team of freelance salespeople (or Brand Ambassadors as we like to call them), helping them thrive through hands on coaching, training and motivation. You’ll take ownership of one of our busiest and most vibrant regions, driving performance and making a real impact on the lives of dogs and their owners.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Take ownership: Lead the London sales region with energy and dedication. This is your team to grow and nurture.
• Inspire and coach: Mentor salespeople—many of whom are new to sales—through hands-on coaching, training, and development to achieve their full potential.
• Build culture: Foster a strong, mission-driven culture within your team that aligns with Butternut Box’s values. Keep your team motivated and connected to our mission of making dogs’ lives better.
• Collaborate: Work closely with other regional managers and the head of Direct Sales to align on goals and share best practices.
• Recruit and retain: Identify, onboard and retain the best talent for your team creating a pipeline of top-performing salespeople.

🤔 Why join us?

• Mission driven work: Be part of a team dedicated to spreading health and happiness to dogs and their humans through the power of Fresh dog food.
• Growth opportunities: Join a rapidly growing business with plenty of opportunities to advance your career. Our now Head of Sales started in this role and we have lots of stories similar to this.
• Autonomy: Own your region and make a tangible impact on the business.
• Supportive environment: Work closely with a passionate and invested leadership team who will support you every step of the way.

👋 A bit about you:

• Ideally you have at least a year of leadership experience - whether this is in a mentoring or line management capacity. You must be excited to help others grow and succeed and are motivated by seeing your team thrive.
• Experience in a sales environment (we're happy to consider different industries) is a requirement
• You must be a hard worker who will bring confidence, energy, passion and grit to this role
• You demonstrate Dedication & Determination, Openness & Honesty, Genuine Care and a drive to Strive for Better in everything you do
• If you're comfortable already with reporting via Looker / Google Sheets, this is a huge bonus

🐶 A bit about us:

At Butternut, we put the food back into dog food. We believe dogs deserve to eat the healthiest, most natural and tastiest food with none of the nasties. That’s why we make freshly prepared dog food. Cooked like you would at home. Delivered in perfect portions. #LI-Hybrid

As a B-Corp certified company; you can be sure you are joining a sustainable company who care about our people, product and our impact on the environment.

Our goal is to help dogs live healthier, happier and longer lives whilst leaving humans smiling after every interaction. We’ve come a long way since our co-founders (Kev & Dave) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, we now feed a lot of dogs across the UK & Europe - but we want to feed dogs everywhere. And to do this, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work with us.

🙌 A bit about what we offer:

• 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) and an additional day for every year of service
• 5 paid 'paws' days per year to support to learning and/or wellbeing
• £500 personal learning & development budget
• Butternut Box employee discount
• Enhanced parental leave
• Co-working office space.
• Flexible working hours and work from home options
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension with NEST
• Private Medical Insurance with Vitality
• Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
• Time off for fertility treatments and pregnancy loss
• Paid sabbaticals for squad members with 5 or more years at Butternut
• Discounted gym access through MyGymDiscounts
• Lots of office dogs (Ajax, Brio, Basil, Chorizo, Lenny, Jasper, Peggy, Pip and many more….)

❗️A few things to note:

• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• As our business has grown so has our responsibility to our community, our planet and our business. We are not perfect, but we are committed to doing business the right way and continually improving our social and environmental performance.
• We really value a cover letter - so if this is a role that excites you, we would encourage you to submit a cover letter alongside your application.

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