Business Development Executive

Overview

Job Title: Business Development Executive

Location / Region
:
Sheffield and surrounding areas

Industry
:

FMCG / Food service

Contract Type:Fixed Term, Full Time
- 13th October 2026
until 8th February 2027 with a great chance to lead to a permanent opportunity.

Working Pattern:Monday-Friday (No Weekend Working)

Salary / Rate: Upto £34,000 per annum (pro rated) + 10% KPI bonus & £600 retention bonus

Other Benefits: Company Car + Fuel Card

Would you like to work with a high profile client, helping hospitality and food service businesses grow their profits by identifying sales opportunities, building strong customer relationships and offering the right service and solutions for their business?

Zing has a fantastic opportunity to join our Client Team within food service as a Business Development Executive.

As a Business Development Executive, you will be the field-based growth engine for your assigned territory. Your role will be to create new opportunities, build a qualified pipeline, win target outlets and work collaboratively with our client to ensure retention of the customer. We will work together to identify sales opportunities and build strong customer relationships and support across food service businesses.

Success in this role will be measured through pipeline value, outlet conversion and revenue growth.

Zingis part of Avidity Group Ltd, the parent company of a group of sales and marketing agencies-Zing,McCurrach, Standout, Wave&Thumbprint.

Weput a little zing into sales.Webuild communities of tactical teams who support leading brands with new product launches, building distribution and availability, increasing sales in targetedlocationsand giving consumers the best possible shopping experience.

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, you’ll manage your own territory, working closely with the Regional Manager and a friendly, supportive field team.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Build and manage a strong territory pipeline by proactively identifying and opening new opportunities.
• Secure meetings with key decision makers across hospitality and food service outlets.
• Convert prospects into active customers and support a smooth handover.
• Prioritise outlet clusters using insight, plan visits and follow-ups with discipline, and share useful local market intelligence.
• Work closely with our client’s branch teams to create warm referrals, build local pull and support regional growth priorities.
• Understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by hospitality and catering operators.

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’llneed:

• Experience working in hospitality, food service, wholesale or FMCG
• Strong communications skills
• Excellent time management and territory planning ability
• Be self-motivated and results-driven
• A full UK Driving License (no more than 6 points and no previous bans)

Nice to Have:

• Strong knowledge of meat, wine and cleaning product categories
• Direct selling skills

AtZing, we recognise that people are the key to our success.

That’swhyourbenefitspackage is designed tooffercontinuous support, learning and developmentopportunitiesdelivered by ourin-houseL&D team,support your wellbeing and work-life balance.

Our competitive benefits package includes:

• Competitive salary and remuneration: annual pay reviews,…