Business Development Executive South Cambridgeshire Sales

Excellent benefits package including use of Company Car, Laptop, iPad & Mobile Phone.

Mon-Fri working

We have a fantastic new opportunity for an experienced Business Development Executive to join our Blakemore Trade Partners Team. Your role is to support and develop the existing customer base in and around Norfolk/Cambridgeshire area whilst controlling the implementation of Trade Partner initiatives and ensuring that retailers maintain the standard required by A.F Blakemore.

We take the word  Partner  seriously. As such we are seeking a determined, articulate self-starter with a real passion for customer service, to collaborate, support and listen as we continue to add value to our customer’s businesses as well as our own.

As part of the broader A.F. Blakemore & Son business, you will be empowered and supported in a family business that encourages accountability and personal development, thriving in a culture with defined DNA and Values built upon positive relationships both internally, with its partners and our local communities.

• Development of appropriate retail business plans, operational targets and budgets, in conjunction with the retailer
• Monitoring retailers’ level of adherence / loyalty towards recognised SPAR operating standards and facilitating improvement as required
• Monitoring retailer performance and facilitating improvement as required, in conjunction with the team
• The control of bad debt management within the business and liaising closely with head office with regard to issues identified
• Providing retailers with information and support regarding the implementation of new SPAR developments / initiatives
• Providing retailers with advice / sources of information reference general business issues and legislation (e.g. health and food safety, training, employment law, etc.)
• Developing good working relationships with individual retailers and their teams, without compromising the needs and expectations of the AFB Group
• Identification of issues that may affect the retailer’s ability to trade or pay AFB Group bills, and the reporting of these to head office
• Successful integration of new retailers as they are handed over from Recruitment
• Supporting the RSM by representing the Sales Department within project groups.

• UK Driving Licence
• High level of numeracy and literacy
• A good knowledge of Retail Operations
• A passion for Retail
• Extremely self-motivated and driven
• Experienced in Account/Field Management
• Business Degree or equivalent

• potential to earn bonus of up to 20%
• Use of Company Car, Laptop, iPad & Mobile Phone
• A dynamic role in an expanding team
• Fast paced exciting opportunity working with some of the UK's leading brands
• Proactive promotion of internal candidates
• Market leading benefits scheme including:
  • Early access to your pay through 'Early Pay'
  • 24/7 access to your payslips via HR/Payroll portal
  • 10% Staff Discount in our SPAR stores
  • Access to our colleague benefits scheme which offers a wide range of high street retail, holiday & leisure discounts
  • Company Life Insurance worth 1 x Annual Salary and 6 x Annual Salary with Company Pension Scheme
  • Company Pension Scheme
  • NEST pension scheme
  • Extra Holidays - Purchase Scheme
  • Long Service Awards

At A.F. Blakemore & Son Ltd, we're proud of our heritage, but even more excited about our future. What started in Wolverhampton in 1917 as a small, family-run grocery store has grown into one of the UK’s largest privately owned businesses, employing over 6,000 people and generating a turnover of £1.2 billion. We combine the strength of a global brand, while maintaining the values of a family business.

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