Unilever Ice-Cream Territory Manager - North London and Watford
- Employer
- McCurrach UK Ltd
- Location
- Watford, Hertfordshire
- Salary
- Up to £19,000 + Oyster Card + Pension + Retention Bonus
- Closing date
- 15 Apr 2015
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Marketing, Merchandising, Sales
Job Details
We are looking for candidates in the following areas;
North London, North West London, Central London, Watford, North East London
As an Ice Cream Territory Manager for Unilever, you'll take responsibility for increasing brand distribution and visibility within the Convenience and Foodservice channels. You will ensure stores and outlets are set up ready for the Ice-cream season (with the right range, space and point of sale) and then help drive sales throughout the key summer months.
Representing an amazing portfolio of market leading Ice-cream brands you'll prove your ability to negotiate and build great relationships whilst demonstrating the passion, energy and entrepreneurial spirit to identify and exploit every opportunity to develop sales.
You'll need to be results-driven with high personal energy, ideally with experience in a customer facing role. Your ability to build relationships quickly and effectively should be combined with solid commercial understanding and excellent planning skills.
Job Role
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Managing an existing base of Convenience and/or Foodservice outlets, ensuring they are stocking the right equipment, range and point of sales
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Identifying and opening new customer sites by following up leads or creating your own opportunities, tailoring the appropriate proposition for each one.
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Identifying the key decision makers in each outlet and flexing your style to influence effectively and build value-adding relationships.
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Build and present selling stories to open up new distribution points, place additional point of sale or site locally agreed displays to increase consumer visibility and drive incremental sales of Unilever brands
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Sell in forthcoming promotions to key contacts to ensure compliance
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Site and maintain head-office or locally agreed Point Of Purchase equipment such as freezers or other fistulisation/kit
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Hand-held invoicing and payment collection (using card-readers)
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Personal ownership of territory objectives and targets
Skills Required
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High energy and self-motivation
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Results focussed
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A passion for providing excellent customer service
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Effective and flexible communication and inter-personal skills
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High levels of initiative and the ability to work without direct supervision
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Honesty and integrity
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Experience in a similar field sales / van sales or merchandising role in the Retail, Convenience or foodservice sector will be an advantage, but full training will be provided to the successful candidate, plus on going support.
Benefits
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Competitive Salary Up to £19,000 (Dependent on experience)
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Oyster Card
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Retention Bonus
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Tablet and phone
Company
Avidity is the parent company of a group that offers a range of specialist sales and marketing services that help brands sell more.
Services include field marketing, experiential, digital and data products and consultancy.
Our companies are: McCurrach UK Ltd, Standout Field Marketing Ltd, Experience Wave Ltd, Sellex and Thumbprint
- Website
- http://www.weareavidity.com/
- Telephone
- 07866 846 366
- Location
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74 Waterloo Street
Glasgow
United Kingdom
G2 7DJ
United Kingdom
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