Head of Sales - Away From Home

Sales | Leeds | Full Time | Permanent

Since our beginnings at Dr. Oetker, we have been breaking new ground. With pizza, cake, and desserts, as well as digital platforms and services – quality and an innovative spirit set us apart.

What awaits you? It's up to you! At Dr. Oetker, you can actively shape the future – both yours and ours. We want to be part of something bigger. Don't you?

JOIN THE TASTE.

Your responsibilities:

Ready to shape the future of one of the most exciting parts of our business?

We’re looking for an exceptional commercial leader to join us as Head of Sales for our Away From Home channel. This is a high-impact leadership role with the opportunity to drive growth across our Pizza and Cake categories, shape channel strategy, build powerful customer partnerships and unlock new opportunities in a rapidly evolving market.

Leading a talented team, you’ll be responsible for developing and executing winning customer and channel strategies that deliver sustainable growth in volume, sales, profit and market share. Working cross-functionally with employees across the business, you’ll combine commercial ambition with collaborative leadership to inspire teams, influence key stakeholders and deliver outstanding results.

Away From Home represents a significant growth opportunity for our business. As consumers increasingly engage with our brands beyond traditional retail settings, this role will be instrumental in driving our vision, increasing brand relevance and accelerating our next phase of growth.

This is more than a sales leadership role. It’s an opportunity to shape strategy, develop high performing teams, influence business direction and make a lasting impact on a channel with huge untapped potential.

Why join Dr. Oetker:

• Shape the future of Out of Home:

Take ownership of one of the biggest growth opportunities in our business. You’ll define and deliver the strategy for our Away From Home channel, unlocking growth across our Pizza and Cake portfolio while identifying hew customers, channels and routes to market.

• Lead with impact:

This is a role with genuine influence. Working with UK and International stakeholders, you’ll shape commercial strategy, build high-value customer partnerships and drive sustainable growth in sales, profit and market share.

• Build high-performing teams:

You’ll inspire, coach and develop and talented sales team, creating a culture of accountability, ambition and continuous development, Your leadership will help shape the next generation of commercial talent at Dr. Oetker.

What you’ll bring:

• Commercial leadership:

A proven track record of delivering profitable growth within the Away From Home channel through strong customer relationships, strategic thinking and exceptional commercial execution.

• Growth mindset:

The ability to spot opportunities, challenge the status quo and turn insight into action. You’ll be equally comfortable developing long-term strategy and delivering short-term results.

• Influential leadership:

A collaborative leadership style with experience of leading high-performing teams and successfully engaging stakeholders across customers, distributors and internal functions.

• Analytical & results driven:

Strong commercial instincts combined with data-led decision making, enabling you to manage complexity, prioritise opportunities and consistently deliver against ambitious growth targets.

The role is home based and you must be able to visit our Leeds Head Office, Leyland Production site and other external locations for face-to-face collaboration and to meet business requirements. Occasional international travel may be required.

What we offer:

The Head of Sales – Away From Home role offers a competitive salary alongside many other benefits including:

• Company Bonus Scheme (up to 20% paid annually)
• Company Car Scheme (or alternative car allowance)
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Free life assurance 4x annual salary
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme (3% employee contributions, 6% employer contributions)
• Private health care provided by Bupa (single cover)
• Health Care Cash Plan Scheme (provided by Bupa)
• Annual healthy heart MOT’s
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Enhanced Company Sick Pay
• Employee referral scheme (£350 per referral, you’ll want to tell your friends and family all about us!)
• Employee loyalty scheme, recognising length of service milestones at 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20 years and beyond
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free eye test vouchers