Area Sales Manager

Area Sales & Growth Manager - Dublin

Location:
Field-based across Dublin with hybrid flexibility (occasional WFH)

Salary:
€65,000 basic + bonus (DOE)

An ambitious Irish start-up in the food & retail sector is hiring an Area Sales & Growth Manager to spearhead expansion across their growing retail and wholesale footprint.

If you love spotting trends before they hit, thrive in a fast-paced, founder-led environment, and know how to drive revenue and brand buzz-this could be your next move.

🥇The Role:

You'll oversee performance across three busy retail locations in Dublin, leading sales strategy and in-store experience. Reporting directly to the founder, you'll also grow wholesale and corporate sales channels-building out new partnerships and scaling what's already working.

This is a varied and impactful role where your insights and actions will directly shape how the brand grows.

🔍What You'll Do:

• Own store performance and sales KPIs across multiple locations

• Guide and coach a team of three supervisors

• Increase revenue through upselling, customer engagement, and visual merchandising

• Expand wholesale and B2B sales (e.g., coffee shops, corporate gifting)

• Act as the founder's commercial eyes and ears on the ground

• Identify seasonal and location-specific trends to optimise stock and promotions

• Collaborate with the bakery and ops team to feed insights back into production planning

🚀About You:

• Retail or food sector experience with a strong commercial edge

• Confident analysing sales performance and identifying growth levers

• A natural communicator with energy and spark-someone who gels quickly with people

• Trend-savvy-someone who knows what's hot and how to turn that into sales

• Hands-on, independent, and solutions-focused

• Flexible and excited by change-you'll be helping build the plane as it flies

This is a rare opportunity to join a high-growth business at a pivotal moment. If you want to make your mark, grow something meaningful, and have fun doing it-we'd love to hear from you.

The Next Step for you:

Should this position be of interest to you please submit your CV to Maura O'Hea from Next Generation Recruitment using the apply button.

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