Area Sales manager, Retail
This listing is for an Area Sales manager, Retail role at Consensus Sverige AB, in Linköping, Sweden. It is listed as a full-time, management position.
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This listing is for an Area Sales manager, Retail role at Consensus Sverige AB, in Linköping, Sweden. It is listed as a full-time, management position.
Reading the advert, the employer asks for Swedish and English language skills.
Skills and tools named in the text include sales, negotiation and CRM.
No salary is given in this listing, so check the official pay figures in the DGJ Insight section below where they exist.
The advert does not mention visa sponsorship. If you would move to Sweden for this job, check the official work permit route first (DGJ Insight lists it where we have it).
Dev Global Jobs found this job on Arbetsförmedlingen (JobTech) on Nov 12, 2026; applications close on Nov 29, 2026.
- Employer
- Consensus Sverige AB
- Location
- Linköping, Sweden
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level (from the title)
- management
- Pay
- Not stated by the employer
- Languages asked
- Swedish and English
- Found
- Nov 12, 2026 on Arbetsförmedlingen (JobTech)
- Closes
- Nov 29, 2026
- Employer text
- 400 words, about 2 min to read
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- Mirror the skills the advert names (sales, negotiation and CRM) in your CV where you really have them; applicant tracking systems look for these words.
- Say your level in Swedish and English plainly (for example B2 or C1).
- Plan to apply before Nov 29, 2026.
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DGJ Insight
Our own data about this role and place, from official statistics and our live job index.
Source: OECD Average annual wages, 2025
UN living-cost index for Sweden (ICSC post adjustment 37.6), as of 1 Nov 2026.
Source: ICSC post adjustment classifications (icsc.un.org)
- Work permit: Job offer with terms equal to Swedish collective agreements; new salary threshold
- EU Blue Card: Degree and salary threshold
- Job seeker permit for highly qualified: Advanced degree, up to 9 months
Official routes: Swedish Migration Agency
About the role
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Do you enjoy being close to customers, identifying growth opportunities and turning them into concrete sales?
We are looking for an Area Sales Manager to join Kekkilä-BVB’s Nordic Retail Sales team in Sweden for Hasselfors Garden. You will be commercially responsible for your own territory and develop both existing and new customers.
Our field-sales model focuses time where sales work can make a difference: growing priority customers, developing assortments, improving brand visibility and placement and discovering new business opportunities.
01What you will do
- Develop and execute short- and long-term sales plans for your territory.
- Grow sales and profitability with prioritised customers and build sustainable, long-term partnerships.
- Use customer and sales data to prioritise customer activity, visits and routes.
- Develop assortments through cross-selling, pre-sales and customer-specific growth opportunities.
- Ensure strong brand visibility, product placement, availability and distribution in priority customers.
- Identify and convert new local customer opportunities.
- Lead seasonal pre-sales with prioritised private garden centres and agreed chain and key-account locations.
- Use digital selling methods and sales-support tools alongside physical customer visits.
- Work closely with KAMs and other functions and maintain high-quality customer and opportunity information in CRM.
Preferred location: Mid-East Sweden or close to the Stockholm area. Regular customer travel is an essential part of the role. The role reports to the Vice President, Sales Retail & Professional.
02What we are looking for
You do not need to tick every box. We are looking for a commercially curious and proactive person who enjoys developing customers and business and is comfortable taking ownership.
- Experience in field sales, retail sales or customer development.
- Strong commercial drive and the ability to work independently.
- Good understanding of sales, margin, profitability and customer potential.
- Strong sales, negotiation and communication skills.
- The ability to plan and prioritise a geographically broad customer portfolio.
- A collaborative and solution-focused approach.
- Interest in gardening products and the retail market.
- Confidence in using CRM, forecasting and digital sales tools.
- This is an active field sales role requiring frequent travel across the assigned territory, systematic route planning and regular face-to-face customer meetings.
- Fluent Swedish and English
If you want to combine customer relationships, commercial thinking and hands-on sales, we would be happy to hear from you.
03Contact Information
We cooperate with Consensus for this recruitment. For further information, please contact Lena Ahlin . We look forward to receiving your application as soon as possible, but latest by 29 November at www.consensus.nu (http://www.consensus.nu).
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