Field Sales Executive

Warburtons Ltd; England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Warburtons is looking for a Field Sales Executive in the Tyne & Wear/Northumberland area. This role involves driving sales, executing brand initiatives, and building customer relationships within stores. You'll enjoy competitive pay, a company car, and a range of benefits while joining a leading bakery brand dedicated to career development.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Company Car

Annual profit share

5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays

Award winning pension scheme

Deals and discounts for employees and family

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Proven ability to interpret and evaluate complex data.
• Proactive with ambition to develop a career in Commercial Sales.
• Confidence to work autonomously and manage own workload.

Responsibilities

• Drive sales and execute brand plans in store.
• Build strong customer relationships within the territory.
• Deliver the channel and customer plans instore, ensuring targets are met.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Commercial knowledge

Analytical experience

Organizational skills

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Company description:

At Warburtons, family is at the heart of our business. Five generations'? worth of expertise that goes into making our bakery products allows us to continue a tradition of baking inherited over the past 141 years.

Warburtons is the largest bakery brand in the UK, but that doesn't allow us to rest on our laurels. We are pioneers of the industry and ambitious market leaders, always seeking to challenge ourselves and convention. It is part of our philosophy to provide honest good sense on issues of health and well-being, helping the whole family to enjoy our products as part of a healthy, balanced diet, through a range of products to suit all meal occasions, lifestyles and tastes.

Job description:

Title: Field Sales Executive
Function:Commercial
Location: Tyne & Wear/Northumberland
Salary:Competitive + Company Car

Are you a Field Sales Executivelooking for a new challenge and would loaf to build a career in the FMCG industry with the UK’s most chosen brand?

We are recruiting for a Field Sales Executivecovering the Tyne & Wear/Northumberland area.

If you are passionate about sales and want to be a part of a leading bakery brand, we would love to hear from you.

The Recipe

Be part of a great family. As an organisation that is 149 years old, with a clear purpose and values, we provide staple products that help to feed our nation. You’ve probably tasted our products - now have a taste of what it means to be part of the family behind developing, creating and delivering all the incredible products that we’re famous for. We’re proud of our heritage and we love our brand, we know you will too!

At Warburtons, we are committed to your growth and development. We offer a range of career progression opportunities to help you achieve your professional goals. We will provide you with ongoing training and support that will equip you with the skills and knowledge needed to excel in your role and advance within the commercial team.

The Role

Working within our Instore Sales Field Team as a Territory Manager, you’ll be responsible for driving sales, executing our brand plans in store with excellence and acting as a brand ambassador for our products.

This is an amazing opportunity for someone to develop their area and build strong customer relationships with our stores. You’ll love networking and building on existing relationships driving growth and sales through category-based initiatives within your stores and territory.

You'll focus on driving growth within some of our current retailers, delivering the channel and customer plans instore, ensuring the successful execution of all customer in store activities and the achievement of targets within your defined territory to ensure we feed the nation.

As part of the wider team, we’ll be looking for you to create opportunities and harness innovative ways to add value to the wider business. You’ll be passionate about achieving territory targets and sharing best practice. Through quality process and living our values, you’ll build a solid partnership with our customers.

It’s not essential that you have any previous experience, but it definitely helps if you have a commercial mind, are comfortable with building relationships and curious about retail or market trends and changes.

Essential Ingredients

• Excellent communication skills: great at building relationships and establishing credibility with both internal and customer contacts.
• Commercial knowledge: good understanding of numbers and the key levers for driving sales.
• Confidence to work autonomously and manage own workload.
• Analytical experience: proven ability to interpret and evaluate complex data.
• Proactive with the ambition to develop a career within Commercial Sales.
• Brilliant organisational skills: managing own and others time effectively.
• Competent with IT systems: including Excel, PowerPoint, and customer specific software.
• A solution mindset: someone that enjoys turning challenges into results.
• Full driving licence

Extra Dough

And last but by no means yeast, you will want to know what your bread is worth:

• Competitive Salary
• Company Car
• A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
• Family time is important to us, and we know it will be to you, so you’ll have 5 weeks holiday and bank holidays with the opportunity to buy an additional 5 days each year
• Award winning pension scheme
• Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
• Support for your health and wellbeing, access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service

We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.

In Short

• Industry Consumer Goods & FMCG
• Founded 1876
• Location Bolton
• Company size 1000 - 4999

About us

At Warburtons, family is at the heart of our business. Five generations' worth of expertise, with the recent introduction of the sixth generation of family, that goes into making our bakery products allows us to continue a tradition of baking inherited over the past 147 years.

Warburtons is the largest bakery brand in the UK, but that doesn't allow us to rest on our laurels. We are pioneers of the industry and ambitious market leaders, always seeking to challenge ourselves and convention.

It is part of our philosophy to provide honest good sense on issues of health and well-being, helping the whole family to enjoy our products as part of a healthy, balanced diet, through a range of products to suit all meal occasions, lifestyles and tastes.

Rewards

As a modern family business, we have always strived to make Warburtons an enjoyable place to work so that you grow with us as we work together to achieve our vision to be Britain’s Best Food Business.

Our people are the key ingredient needed to achieve this. We value our people and are proud to offer a wide range of reward and benefits, from an award winning pension plan, profit share scheme and voluntary benefits website Extra Dough.

By offering a range of excellent benefits, we can be sure to attract and retain top talent to drive the business forward. We pride ourselves on being on top of our game, leading the way in our industry and our reward package is a reflection on this.

Training & Development

Nobody becomes a master baker overnight. Or a HR Manager, Accountant or Driver for that matter. Training and development is at the heart of our business. We can’t deliver quality products unless our team is of a similar quality. Our programmes for learning and development are highly respected and world-class. We empower people to make choices and do the right thing. This comes from knowing your role inside out, innovating and seizing the potential to learn more.

We are proud to have won awards for our talent management programmes and practices. Developing your career is an ongoing process – we need people who embrace change, take control and make sure their career is going the way they want it to, both professionally and personally. They are in the driving seat, but we’re right beside them.

Personal development of each and every employee is in our plan and is a priority for us. Alongside skills development, our management and leadership programmes are recognized throughout the company as being ‘best in class’. Those who aspire to or are joining in a management and leadership role will be able to access and benefit from a wide range of development offerings.

Key to our commitment is to ensure that our people are growing to the best of their abilities.