Field Sales Executive - West Midlands

Field Sales Executive - West Midlands role at Imperial Brands PLC

We’re looking for a Field Sales Executive to join our high‑performing team and help drive growth across the West Midlands and surrounding areas. As a graduate or early‑career sales professional, you’ll be part of a global business powered by 25,000 passionate employees, driven by innovation, inclusion and excellence.

• Deliver on the business's KPIs across key accounts in wholesale and independent retailers.
• Build an in‑depth knowledge of customer needs and shopper dynamics.
• Partner with retail key accounts, independent and wholesale outlets to establish excellent relationships and drive new product sales.
• Educate retailers on industry legislation and brand advantages to build customer advocacy.
• Achieve sales, market share, distribution, availability and coverage targets within your defined area, ensuring trade incentives and activities are optimised.
• Identify new business opportunities by applying enhanced category and shopper behaviour knowledge.

• Previous and/or current face‑to‑face sales experience.
• Experienced in building face‑to‑face relationships.
• Excellent communication and people skills, with proven ability to build rapport quickly.
• Team player with understanding of wider team goals.
• Self‑supportive, managing time and resources effectively with initiative.
• Able to set and meet self‑stretching targets.

• Annual salary of £30,000 (£37,000 OTE).
• Generous pension scheme.
• Company car, phone and tablet.
• 29 days annual leave in addition to public and bank holidays, with option to purchase additional holiday.
• Competitive benefits including health and wellbeing scheme, discount scheme and share save scheme.

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro‑divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at  to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

We’re a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work.

Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award‑winning development programmes that create exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all. Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.