Business Development Executive

Standout Field Marketing Careers; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 26,100 - 31,900; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Vehicle

Fuel Card

Flexible working policies

23 days paid holiday

Performance bonuses

Learning and development opportunities

Job summary

Standout Field Marketing Careers is seeking a Business Development Executive in Birmingham to manage the Pladis account. This role involves building relationships, negotiating displays, and driving sales in a field sales environment. Candidates should have experience in field sales, excellent communication skills, and a full UK Driving Licence. This full-time position offers competitive pay and benefits including a company vehicle, flexible working, and a supportive work culture promoting diversity and well-being.

Qualifications

• Experience working in field sales or similar role.
• Strong communication skills and confidence influencing stakeholders.
• Excellent time management and territory planning ability.
• A full UK Driving Licence (no more than 6 points and no previous bans).

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow the Pladis account across Birmingham.
• Build strong relationships with store decision-makers.
• Negotiate additional displays and promotional activities.
• Drive distribution and compliance across the product ranges.
• Sell and promote products to maximize visibility.

Skills

Field sales experience

Strong communication skills

Time management

Self-motivated

Influencing stakeholders

Job description

Job Title: Business Development Executive

Location / Region: Birmingham & surrounding areas (Ideal postcode location: B1)

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time

Salary / Rate: £29,000 per annum, plus a 10% performance related bonus

Other Benefits: Company Vehicle + Fuel Card

The Role at a Glance

We’re recruiting a Business Development Executive to manage and grow our Pladis account across Birmingham and the surrounding areas. You’ll build strong relationships with store decision‑makers, negotiate additional displays, increase distribution and visibility, and drive sales for well‑known household brands.

This role is ideal for someone with field sales or direct selling experience who enjoys autonomy, building relationships, and seeing the direct impact of your work in store. This opportunity gives a wide range of experiences, continuous support from colleagues, fantastic career growth opportunities and excellent perks.

About Us

Standout is part of Avidity Group Ltd, the parent company of a group of sales and marketing agencies (Standout, McCurrach, Wave, Thumbprint & Zing). We are a leading field marketing agency that helps brands increase visibility and drive sales through in-person engagement and strategic marketing.

What You'll Be Doing

As a Business Development Executive, you’ll take full ownership of your area, working closely with the Regional Manager and a supportive field team to deliver against agreed KPIs.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Managing a territory and planning visits around store manager availability to maximise opportunities
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with store managers and key decision‑makers
• Negotiating additional displays and promotional activity
• Driving distribution, availability and compliance across the agreed product ranges
• Executing merchandising activity in line with brand guidelines
• Actively selling and promoting products to maximise sales and visibility
• Using sales data to track performance and identify growth opportunities

What We're Looking For

We are ideally looking for a candidate who has the following skills and experience.

You’ll need:

• Experience working in field sales or similar role
• Strong communication skills and confidence influencing stakeholders
• Excellent time management and territory planning ability
• Be self‑motivated and results‑driven
• A full UK Driving Licence (no more than 6 points and no previous bans)

Nice to Have:

• Experience working in convenience, independents or impulse environment
• Merchandising or POS execution experience
• Direct selling skills

Benefits and Perks

At Standout, we recognise that people are the key to our success. Our benefits package offers continuous support, learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and work‑life balance.

• Competitive salary and remuneration: annual pay reviews, performance bonuses and early pay access
• Transport: Company vehicle and fuel card
• Flexible working policies: SMART working options for all staff members
• Flexible annual leave entitlement: 23 days paid holiday + bank holidays (increasing with length of service) and the option to purchase 5 additional annual leave days
• Family friendly policies: enhanced sick pay, maternity/paternity leave, carers leave and parental leave
• Health and Wellbeing: Employee assistance programme, including 8 face‑to‑face counselling sessions, wellness taskforce, community of mental health first aiders and wellness workshops
• Learning and development: PDR objectives, mentorship, career development plans, access to internal vacancies across all our Group Agencies
• Additional perks: discounted private healthcare, retail discounts, daily lunch allowance and life assurance

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Feel empowered to be your best and authentic self in a safe and supportive working environment. Our colleagues come from a variety of backgrounds, education, experience levels, age groups, religions and ethnicities. We’re committed to inclusive and blind recruitment practices, providing forward thinking policies such as transgender and Ramadan policies, and celebrating diversity through engagement sessions for key events such as Pride, International Women’s Day and Black History Month.

A place where you can be yourself and grow. Our aim is simple - to create a workplace that allows you to be your authentic self, in an environment that supports your wellbeing and development. Build a career that works alongside your lifestyle, allowing you to achieve a healthy work‑life balance.