Business Development Executive

Job Title: Business Development Executive

Location / Region
: Southeast London & the surrounding areas

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time

Working Pattern: Monday-Friday

Salary / Rate: £30,200 per annum, plus 10% performance related bonus

Other Benefits: Company Car + Fuel Card

We’re recruiting a Territory Manager to manage and grow our Pladis across Southeast London
. 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 role offers the chance to work to represent a leading brands and work with a range of well‑known products. Not only does this opportunity give you a wide range of experiences, but you’ll also have continuous support from colleagues, fantastic career growth opportunities and excellent perks.

Standout is part of Avidity, the parent company of a group of sales and marketing agencies (Standout, McCurrach, Wave, Thumbprint & Zing).

We put brands in the spotlight. We are a leading field marketing agency that helps brands increase visibility and drive sales through in‑person engagement and strategic marketing. We work with household names across various industries and are dedicated to delivering an outstanding service and optimising results.

Be yourself and grow, have your voice heard, and develop your career with flexible working policies and an abundance of opportunity with a sustainable, forward‑thinking agency.

As a Business Development Executive, your role will be to increase visibility of key Pladis brands. You will be representing a wide range of Pladis brands in store with McVities biscuits and brands such as Jaffa Cakes and Flipz - and you will play a huge role in helping Pladis drive sales by working to increase distribution and actively selling into key contacts within your assigned territory.

You will visit your designated cash and carry regularly to purchase stock and sell into your retailers within your call file.

Pladis is one of the world's fastest-growing snacking companies, and home to iconic brands like McVitie’s, GODIVA, and Ülker, alongside regional favourites such as Jacob’s, Go Ahead, Flipz and more.

As a Territory Manager, 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

We are ideally looking for a candidate who has the following skills and experience, but if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we still encourage you to apply - you might be just the right person for our team.

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…