Field Sales Category Representative - Gillette

Field Sales Solutions; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary £28,700 per year

Bonus up to 15%

Company car & fuel card

In-house academy and training

Career development opportunities

Incentive programmes

Health and financial guidance

Holiday accrual

Job summary

Field Sales Solutions is seeking a Category Development Manager to drive Gillette's grooming category across a defined UK territory. You’ll lead in-store execution, influence availability with store teams, and ensure compliant back-of-house processes and planograms to secure growth.

You’ll build strong relationships with retailers, conduct business reviews, and use Field View to identify opportunities and formulate improvement plans.

Qualifications

• Excellent organisation and communication skills.
• Strong relationship-building ability and a consultative mindset.
• Experience combining negotiation skills with category development to grow sales.
• Knowledge of grocery and high-street retail environments.
• Understanding of category management.
• A self-motivated, resilient individual who thrives on achieving results.
• Full UK driving licence and eligibility to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Executing the male & female grooming category strategy to the highest standard.
• Influencing availability through a consultative, collaborative approach with in-store teams.
• Ensuring robust back-of-house processes, product protection and system compliance.
• Improving inventory accuracy through regular stock takes and root-cause analysis.
• Ensuring grooming fixtures are fully compliant to planograms, including SELs, facings and capacities.
• Acting as the key point of contact for Gillette, building strong, long-term store relationships.
• Conducting business reviews with store managers to drive store and regional growth.
• Using the Field View sales app to analyse performance, identify opportunity and create actionable plans.
• Sharing category insights, trends and data where approved to drive engagement and results.

Skills

Organisation skills

Communication

Relationship-building

Negotiation & category development

Grocery & retail knowledge

Category management

Self-motivation & resilience

UK driving licence & work eligibility

Job description

Field Sales Solutions has an exciting opportunity to join our award-winning business as a CategoryDevelopment Manager, working with one of the world’s most iconic brands – Gillette (Procter & Gamble).

Are you driven, articulate and thrive on making things happen?

If you love being out in the field, influencing results and taking real ownership of a category, this could be the role for you.

About us

Field Sales Solutions area leading field marketing agency, proud to be a three-time winner of the FMBE Field Marketing Agency of the Year Award. We partner with some of the UK’s most exciting and recognisable brands, delivering standout in-store execution that drives growth.

We’re now looking for a passionate and commercially focused individual to become a category expert within male & female grooming – growing sales, improving availability, educating store teams and delivering irresistible execution in store.

The Role

Territory Covered:CB7, CB23, MK41, MK42, NN1, NN3, NN8, NN10, PE1, PE3, PE4, PE6, PE7, PE10, PE11, PE15, NN19, SG18

As part of our Perfect Store Team, you’ll be the face of Gillette within your stores, driving performance across your territory by:

• Executing the male & female grooming categorystrategy to the highest standard.
• Influencing availability through a consultative, collaborative approach with in-store teams.
• Ensuring robust back-of-house processes, product protection and system compliance.
• Improving inventory accuracy through regular stock takes and root-cause analysis.
• Ensuring grooming fixtures are fully compliant to planograms, including SELs, facings and capacities.
• Acting as the key point of contact for Gillette, building strong, long-term store relationships.
• Conducting business reviews with store managers to drive store and regional growth.
• Using the Field View sales app to analyse performance, identify opportunity and create actionable plans.
• Sharing category insights, trends and data where approved to drive engagement and results.Delivering high-quality training to store colleagues on new products, initiatives and category knowledge.

What we’re looking for

• Excellent organisation and communication skills.
• Strong relationship-building ability and a consultative mindset.
• Experience combining negotiation skills with category development to grow sales.
• Knowledge of grocery and high-street retail environments.
• Understanding of category management.
• A self-motivated, resilient individual who thrives on achieving results.
• Full UK driving licence and eligibility to work in the UK.

What’s in it for you?

In return for joining Field Sales Solutions, we offer a competitive and rewarding package:

• £28,700 salary
• Up to 15% performance-related bonus
• Company car & fuel card
• In-house academy with best-in-class training and support
• Clear career development opportunities
• Incentive programmes, including retailer discount schemes
• Health, wellbeing and financial guidance support
• Holiday accrual linked to length of service

Our values

At Field Sales Solutions, our values guide everything we do:

• Partnership – Transparent, collaborative and focused on shared success
• Return – Driving activity that delivers a positive ROI
• Ownership – Accountable, purposeful and proactive
• Upstanding – Honest, ethical and professional
• Determined – Resilient, focused and driven to succeed

We are PROUD to be Field Sales Solutions.