Cover Letter for Sales Representative

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Sales Representative cover letter example

A complete letter, with notes on what each marked line is doing. Borrow the structure, not the facts: yours come from your own resume.

A field sales representative for kitchen equipment, applying to a coffee roaster that sells to cafés

Dear Ms Hartley,

Last year I sold £1.4 million of commercial kitchen equipment across the west of Scotland, 118% of my target¹ and the third year in a row I have finished above it. Stanbrook Coffee is looking for a Sales Representative to win new café and restaurant accounts, and those are the people I sell to every day.

I look after 340 accounts for Rathlow Catering Equipment, from single cafés to a hotel group with nine kitchens. About a third of my revenue comes from customers I found myself. Last year I opened 47 new accounts, mostly by visiting in the quiet hour after lunch service and asking the chef what broke most often². I log every visit and quote in HubSpot on the same day, and my forecast has landed within 6% of actual sales³ in each of the last eight quarters.

The deal I learned most from was a school catering contract I lost on price. I asked the buyer for feedback, rebuilt the proposal around the cost of running the equipment over five years instead of the price on the day, and won the contract when it came back up eighteen months later. That way of pricing is now part of our standard proposal.

Your beans are already in two of my customers' grinders, and both chefs still talk about the training visit your team gave them. I would like to be the person who brings that to the next fifty.

I would be glad to go through my territory plan with you, or to spend a day on the road with one of your reps. I am free on Mondays and Fridays.

Kind regards, Rory McIver

Why this works

1Revenue against target in the first sentence, with the run of years that shows it was not a lucky one.
2How the new business was won, in a detail only someone who did the work would know.
3Forecasting accuracy, which tells a sales manager the pipeline can be trusted.

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Tips for a standout Sales Representative cover letter

Lead with revenue against target, and say how many years in a row you have reached it
Separate new business from growth in existing accounts, with the number of accounts you opened
Tell one deal story: what you changed after losing, or how you won a hard account
Name your CRM and show you keep it accurate, for example how close your forecasts land