Wholesale Business Development Executive

Job Title: Wholesale Business Development Executive

Location / Region : Hemel Hempsteadand the surrounding areas

Industry
: FMCG / Wholesale

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time (40 hrs per week)

Working Pattern: Monday-Friday

Salary : Upto £31,000 per annum plus 10% bonus

Other Benefits: Company Car/Van + Fuel Card

W
ould you like to represent a business that contributes to a healthier and more sustainable way of living?

The Role at a Glance:

Standout Field Marketing have a fantastic opportunity to join our Danone Impulse Field Sales Team.

As a Wholesale BDE, your role will be to call on the Top 8 Wholesale partners for Danone. Your remit will be to influence and agree space, range, promotional compliance and to attend sales events s will include actively managing shelf life quality of stock, ensure rotation, utilise bay space and palletised displays. You will be representing a wide range of Danone brands including Evain Water, Volvic Touch of Fruit, Alpro Plant Based UHT and Dairy SKU’s.

You will play a huge role in helping Danone drive sales by working with key contacts. You must be comfortable and capable manual handling/lifting stock.

About Us:

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.

Why join us & our Danone Team?

We are Danone, with the leading brands across 4 separate categories, you will be representing true leaders in the industry.

Passion, team spirit and go-getting attitude. Courage and ownership. Care and compassion. If these words resonate, you’ll feel right at home working for Danone.

Working on the Danone account, you have the opportunity to represent a company whose driving force is it's people. Danone recognises that together we are a force for good in the role we play through food & drink. A people powered company, where everyone at every level has a voice and share in the future

What We’re Looking For:

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.

• Experience working in field sales or similar role

• Strong communication skills and confidence influencing stakeholders

• Stakeholder management experience

• 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 previous bans)

What You’ll Get in Return – Benefits and Perks:

At Standout, we recognise that people are the key to our success. That’s why our benefits package is designed to offer continuous support, learning and development opportunities delivered by our in-house L&D team, support your wellbeing and work-life balance.

Our competitive benefits package includes:

• Competitive salary and remuneration: annual pay reviews, performance bonuses and early pay access

• Transport: Company vehicle and fuel card

• Flexible working policies
  : SMART working options for all staff members

• Flexible annual leave entitlement: 23 days paid holiday + bank holidays (increasing with length of service) and the option to purchase 5 additional annual leave days

• Family friendly policies: enhanced sick…