Overview
Field Sales Executive - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
FMCG – Drinks including alcohol
Bedford, Bedfordshire - Field Based
Up to £32k (depending on experience) plus company car & bonus + benefits
Are you driven, love meeting people face to face, building relationships and highly organised? Are you results orientated?
The opportunity:
A global drinks brand with an amazing culture is looking for a BDE to grow sales within Buckinghamshire / Northamptonshire / Bedfordshire area.
Responsibilities
* Customer Management: Building strong relationships with customers, developing mutually beneficial relationships, credibility & trust
* Identifying business development opportunities: Identifying business development opportunities & converting these into triple win plans & activations
* Activation: Converting head office agreed plans within your customer base into actual activations whilst searching for additional opportunities to maximise impact
* Execution: Maximising the impact of commercial plans by using all appropriate levers
* Feature space: Agreeing and building feature space in prime locations in store/depot and secondary sites
* Brand exposure: Creating high exposure and impact of brands in line with promotional plans in accounts
* Financial Management: Managing your territory profit & loss (P&L) to ensure growth. Right product, right place, right consumer
* JBP alignment: Creating JBP’s that are aligned to the commercial priorities and are in line with the key account teams’ plans
Who will I be working with?
* Your line manager and the key account teams
* Customers from the Wholesale, Convenience and Out of Home Foodservice channels
A great candidate will have:
* Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
* Experience of a sales environment is preferred although not essential
* A tenacious and entrepreneurial approach
* Financial numeracy and competent use of Microsoft Office applications
* Motivation and ability to learn rapidly (new tasks, processes & ways of working)
* A basic understanding of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) marketplace, its key players and projected market dynamics
In return for everything you can bring we can offer you:
* Up to £32k, depending on experience
* Company Car
* Bonus
* Holiday – Annual holiday entitlement is 26 days, increasing to 27 days after five years' and 28 days after 10 years' service plus bank holidays
* Home working allowance
* Healthcare: eligible to receive private healthcare
* Staff shop/subsidised gym membership
Seniority level
* Associate
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Sales and Business Development
Industries
* Wholesale and Food and Beverage Manufacturing
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