Business Development Executive Swansea, Wales
Job description
Business Development Executive
Location:South Wales, Ideally Swansea (TER0040)
Reporting to: Regional Development Manager
Why Join Us?
Salary of up to £27,000 (including Car Allowance)
Company Phone / Allowance & the tech support you day to day
Company Bonus Scheme – up to 10% of annual salary
Paid day off to celebrate your Birthday
❤️ Monthly payment to spend on your Health & Wellbeing
Who Are We?
Phoenix 2 Retail are the UK’s leading specialist distributor. We offer a unique route to market service to global brands who wish to gain distribution within the UK’s Vape and FMCG categories. Since our inception 2019 we have seen rapid growth and supported our clients deliver their objectives. Now is a brilliant time to join Phoenix 2 Retail as we continue our growth.
What You Will Be Doing?
This is a truly unique opportunity to make a huge difference in what we do and the value we provide to our clients and their brands. As one of the first hires in a newly created Field function, you will initially focus on ensuring our execution is perfect within Grocery and controlled convenience, and work with the store’s leadership teams, department managers and store staff to ensure all barriers to sales are removed every visit, whilst ensuring our planograms & point of sale are in good condition, compliant and enough stock is reaching the store.
You’ll exceed all given KPIs, and excellent execution and customer service for our key customers, whilst ensuring our values and mission is embodied in everything we do. You’ll go above & beyond for our clients and for our brands, be engaging, be a highly effective communicator, quickly establish solid customer relationships and articulate a compelling sales story in call.
- You will be responsible for achieving call rate and other sales KPI’s
- This role is field-based, working in the field most days, with occasional travel to our office in Peterlee for meetings.
- Report successes to your regional manager and share best practice with colleagues
- Work on strategic, tactical projects from time to time, always delivering the best possible results.
- Ensure stores conform to high quality merchandising and compliance standards.
- React to and keep abreast of the trends and insights from both our customers and the licensed sector to enable continuous learnings and communicate this with our customer base, as being the expert in the category.
- Continually looking for opportunities to drive additional, incremental profitability & efficiency and faster growth for the business.
- Engage efficiently with cross-functional Stakeholders, to help our business thrive.
We would love to meet someone with…
- A positive, mindset that sees all challenges as opportunities.
- Humility, and an ability to learn every day.
- An appetite to lead from the front.
- A great communicator, with people at the heart of everything they do.
- A sharp commercial mind – comfortable with optimizing a set of revenue driving KPIs.
- A proven track record of managing through influence, with the ability to take people with you.
- The skills and confidence to co-ordinate effectively across the business, working with Teams from Sales Performance to Learning & Development, to continually drive improvements to both Field Sales, and the broader business.
- Happy to work at pace, in a dynamic, and agile sector.
- Relentless about achieving success.
- A passionate voice on the significance of having a culturally rich, diverse Team, that promotes respect, equality and opportunity for all.
- This is a demanding, people centric role requiring high degrees of flexibility and occasional nights away from home.
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Phoenix 2 Retail. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people, and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.
