Location: Homebased
Job type: Full Time, Permanent
Salary: £Competitive + car allowance (can be offered as a home based role)

Who Are We?

At Burton’s Biscuit Company we are the home of Jammie Dodgers, Maryland Cookies, Wagon Wheels and Thomas Fudge’s to name just a few of our brands. We are incredibly lucky to work in the world of making delicious biscuits!

As a flexible working business who encourage a happy family work life balance, if flexible working is something that is important to you please get in touch and we are more than happy to discuss flexible options with you.

We are the UK’s third largest – and fastest-growing – biscuit manufacturer, and our vision is to have a shared Pride and Passion for baking great biscuits & snacks that delight our consumers, shoppers and our customers. Our head Office is in St Albans but the majority of out 1800 employees are based in our four bakeries in Llantarnam, Blackpool, Edinburgh and Dorset.

Alongside some of the nation’s most loved snack brands, such as Maryland, Jammie Dodgers and Wagon Wheels, we have secured a long term agreement to allow us to manufacture a number of Mars branded biscuit products, Marmite biscuits and Cathedral City savoury snacks. We are also forming key strategic partnerships within the Retailer Private Label sector.

What are we all about?

Here at Burton’s Biscuit Company we pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. Our goal is to support our team in achieving their career goals, by providing a working environment that offers opportunity, support, scope and pace of change. Our culture is the foundation of our business. We are fast paced, agile and fun.

We don’t want to bore you with just a job description - we want to tell you what it’s really like to work for us.

So let’s start with ….…

Why work as part of our commercial team?

This is an opportunity to join an innovative sales team full of energy, drive and passion. You will make a real difference by managing your customer base and working closely with other departments to deliver great results across some of the best biscuit brands on the market.

What does your typical day look like?

This is a key role for business and will see you split your time between key Discounter Wholesale accounts, managing the full relationship and P&L, ensuring best quality & profitability is maintained across your portfolio. This will involve managing some promotional work with the customer, assisting with category data and working with NPD & Brand Marketing to understand how you can continue to offer your customer a clear point of difference within this varied channel.

The 2nd part of your role will see you take full responsibly for Burtons Biscuits surplus stock strategy, this will involve building key relationships across all of our grocery accounts & bakeries to understand forecast v’s stock holdings and anticipate in advance the strategy and channel required to commercialise additional routes to market. This is a fast paced part to the role & forms a key element to helping Burtons achieve their commercial strategy.

What are the key ingredients needed for the role?

To be successful in this role, you need to have either a great track record within the Discounter Wholesale channel and have a good working relationship with a number of existing customers or work for a Discount Wholesaler already. Or you will have experience of managing the surplus stock process within an FMCG environment., this could come from a number of experiences such as an Account Manager, Trader or working as a Buyer to name a few.

Final part of the mix.

You will need strong communication skills, be commercially aware and understand the complexity of the discounter channel and how it operates. Although our head office is based in St Albans, depending on location this role can be offered as home based and would require you to be in the office 2 days a week.

If you are ready to begin a career with real bite we would love to hear from you so apply now by clicking the link below.

You may have had experience or be interested in the following: Commercial Manager, Trader, Wholesale Discount Channel, Buyer, Trading Manager, Discounter Channel, Buying Manager, National Account Manager, Distributor, Business Development Manager etc.