Field Sales Manager

As the FIELD SALES MANAGER AWAY FROM HOME, you’ll have an FMCG or retail background, with a successful track record of winning in a field sales environment, combined with strong strategic mindset & commercial capability gained within an account executive or account manager role.

What is vital is attitude and behaviour. It’s about working smart: taking responsibility & accountability, challenging yourself & others, analyzing how you & others can improve and ensuring that every action you take builds towards our objective.

You’ll be working very collaboratively with the head of field sales as well as the take home team, helping develop our people, owning the performance management process, supporting the recruit to retain strategy, while simultaneously ensuring the team deliver against key performance measures

WHAT WE OFFER

25 Days Holiday plus 8 Bank Holidays

Annual bonus circa 6% based on performance.

53rd week payment (an extra weeks pay in Dec) and a yearly performance bonus

Flexible working hours and hybrid working - We also offer summer hours where you can work to have the afternoon off on Fridays!

Fantastic Pension contribution where Kellanova will double your pension contribution up to a maximum of 12.5% meaning your pension could be up to 18.75% a month

Life insurance, plus any more benefits

HERE’S A TASTE OF WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

Own the channel commercial plan – people, strategy, tactics so we win in the right environments across relevant occasions (Insight based).

Recruit, develop and progress talent for the team to evolve and progress development of careers from the field into head office roles to drive the succession future talent.

Support the performance and overall management of the team and delivery against targets working with the Head of field sales, AFH Sales Lead, and with BDE team directly to ensure the delivery of individual and total team objectives

Set direction of the team along, aligning deployment with key accounts specific to regional bias and customer base.

Being out with the team as required coaching and developing them commercially through the right support and challenge, performance managing where needed.

Inspiring the team and individuals, championing a growth mindset and inclusive feedback culture.

Identification of any training needs, aligning with field leadership team to create and deploy training needs through L&D lead.

Lead the co-ordination of internal meetings for total team.

Be the face of the team internally giving business updates and sharing total team successes

YOUR RECIPE FOR SUCCESS

A fundamental passion for people development and sales growth

Strong sales, coaching & team leadership evidence

NAM / commercial experience (account ownership)

Evidence of driving results through people, situational leadership / GROW model, performance management

Previous advanced sales experience / senior retail team leadership preferred

Experience selling to regional store contacts, to director level

WHATS NEXT

After you apply, your application will be reviewed by a real recruiter – not a bot. In the meantime, visit our How We Hire page to get insights into our hiring process and how to best prepare for a Kellanova interview.

If we can help you throughout the application or hiring process, please email We’re proud to offer industry competitive Total Health benefits (Physical, Financial, Emotional, and Social) that vary depending on region and type of role. Be sure to ask your recruiter for more information.

This role takes part in Locate for Your Day, Kellanova’s hybrid way of working that empowers office-based employees to, in partnership with their managers, find a balance between working from home and the office.

ABOUT KELLANOVA

Kellanova is a leading company in global snacking, international cereal and noodles, plant-based foods, and North America frozen breakfast, and a portfolio of iconic, world-class brands, including Pringles, Cheez-It, Pop-Tarts, Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Treats, MorningStar Farms, Incogmeato, Gardenburger, Nutri-Grain, RXBAR, and Eggo. We also steward a suite of beloved international cereal brands, including Kellogg’s Frosties, Zucaritas, Special K, Krave, Miel Pops, Coco Pops, and Crunchy Nut, among others.

To become part of our story requires a commitment to a team that demands the best you’ve got to give. In return, you get to make a meaningful contribution towards how we shape the future, ensuring better days for our planet, our people and our communities. We strive to create a world where people are not just fed but fulfilled and a workplace where everyone is empowered to be their true selves.

We’re results oriented and we ask you to live up to the best you can be. This means you’ll be excited and afraid of the opportunities all around you in equal measure. We’re passionate and incredibly proud of our inclusive culture that balances understanding, accountability and challenge at every step of your journey, for as far as you want to progress. It’s the challenge of a high-performance culture combined with a team first mentality that drives us all forward and brings us closer together. We can be tough, but we’re always kind. We’re at our best when we push each other to become better, recognising and rewarding greatness along the way.

At Kellanova, we are committed to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (ED&I), uplifting each other and embracing our differences to achieve our common goals. Our focus on ED&I enables us to build a culture where all employees are inspired to share their passion, talents, ideas, and can bring their authentic selves to work. Learn more here. We’re a foundation member of the Leading Executives Advancing Diversity (LEAD) Network, dedicated to meaningfully accelerating gender parity and driving inclusion in the European retail & Fasting-Moving Consumer Goods value chain. We’re proud that we’ve reached 50:50 gender parity for all leadership roles ahead of our 2025 target.

There’s a seat for everyone at our table. It’s up to you to make yours count.

So, Make It Happen

-Kellanova Recruitment