Business Development Executive

Mackenzie Jones; Bedford; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A global drinks brand is seeking a Business Development Executive to enhance sales in the Bedfordshire area. The ideal candidate will be driven, organized, and skilled in customer management, with a bachelor's degree preferred. The role offers a competitive salary up to £32k, a company car, and various benefits including healthcare and holiday entitlement.

Benefits

Company Car

Bonus

Holiday entitlement of 26 days

Home working allowance

Private healthcare

Subsidised gym membership

Qualifications

• Experience in a sales environment preferred but not essential.
• Basic understanding of FMCG marketplace and its dynamics.

Responsibilities

• Building strong relationships with customers and identifying business development opportunities.
• Managing territory profit & loss to ensure growth.

Skills

Sales

Customer Management

Financial Numeracy

Motivation

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

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Connecting Commercial & Marketing talent across FMCG & Retail

Business Development Executive

FMCG – Drinks including alcohol

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.

What will my key accountabilities be?

Customer Management

• Building strong relationships with customers, developing mutually beneficial relationships, credibility & trust
• Identifying business development opportunities & converting these into triple win plans & activations.
• 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
• Agreeing and building feature space in prime locations in store/depot and secondary sites.
• 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
• 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 hols
• Home working allowance
• Healthcare: eligible to receive private healthcare
• Staff shop/subsidised gym membership

People are at the heart of everything we do. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment process that means people can be their best authentic self. We would love to reply to all applications, regrettably we are unable to do so due to the high volumes we receive, so if you do not hear back within 14 days unfortunately on this role it won’t be progressing. It is possible that the position could be in the process of closing, so chalk it up to bad timing. But, have no fear! There will be more opportunities. Follow us at Mackenzie Jones Recruitment so you don’t miss them.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Business Development

• Industries

  Wholesale and Food and Beverage Manufacturing

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