Jobs at AG Barr

Field-based Business Development Representative responsible for growing AG Barr’s soft drinks distribution across convenience and independent retail outlets in Central Scotland. The role involves achieving sales KPIs, building retailer relationships, increasing product availability and displays, supporting merchandising, executing brand plans, route planning, and sharing market intelligence. Candidates must be self-motivated, resilient, communicative, customer-focused, comfortable working with alcohol products, and able to drive throughout the territory.

Manage and grow strategic national wholesale accounts for AG Barr’s beverage portfolio. Responsibilities include developing joint business plans, negotiating with buying teams, delivering revenue and volume targets, forecasting demand, managing budgets and promotional investments, executing activations, analyzing sales and market data, and maintaining strong internal and customer relationships. The role requires FMCG sales experience, ideally within the UK on-trade drinks sector, with a focus on new business and profitable growth.

Manage and grow AG Barr’s national wholesale accounts across the on-trade drinks portfolio. Responsibilities include developing strategic growth and joint business plans, managing customer relationships and negotiations, forecasting, promotional execution, budgets, distribution, revenue, profitability, and account KPIs. The role requires using sales data and market insights to optimize performance, coordinating with demand planning and internal teams, and maintaining effective communication with wholesale buying, operations, and marketing stakeholders.

Drive sales growth for AG Barr brands across a defined Cheshire territory of convenience and independent retail outlets. Build retailer relationships, secure product distribution, deliver sales KPIs, improve displays and availability, provide merchandising guidance, and execute brand plans using point-of-sale materials. The role requires route planning, market insight, strong communication, independent working, collaboration with territory teams, and occasional overnight travel for team meetings.

Manages site capacity and supply planning for a manufacturing operation, including 13-week rough-cut capacity planning, short-term production scheduling, materials availability, inventory deployment, product lifecycle planning, and supply planning KPIs. Leads a planning team, coordinates with site operations and cross-functional stakeholders, supports S&OP, and improves OTIF performance and cost efficiency.

Manage customer supply chain relationships and act as the primary interface for assigned accounts. Develop volume and value forecasts, support S&OP, coordinate promotions and launches using CPFR principles, monitor service metrics, create service level agreements, identify cost-saving opportunities, and collaborate with commercial, planning, logistics, warehouse, production, finance, customer support, and marketing teams to resolve supply chain issues.

Manage and grow a portfolio of leisure-group customers within the FMCG and out-of-home trade sectors. Responsibilities include acquiring customers, developing joint business plans, forecasting, managing budgets and promotions, analyzing market data, achieving sales KPIs, and building relationships with customers and internal teams. The role is field-based and focused on profitable account growth, customer retention, and execution of company strategic priorities.

Leads quality assurance across third-party food and beverage manufacturers, ensuring food safety, BRC/GFSI compliance, hygiene, testing, audits, and corrective actions. Investigates complaints, manages incidents and non-conformances, tracks site action plans, and improves virtual factory systems and controls. Deputises for the Virtual Factory Quality Manager and conducts site audits across the UK and EU.

Manages the Ocado account with full P&L responsibility and supports the Amazon Vendor Central relationship. Responsibilities include account planning, promotional execution, digital merchandising, product listing management, supply chain coordination, sales and digital shelf analysis, stakeholder communication, agency oversight, KPI delivery, and administrative compliance. The role is home-based with regular travel to company sites, customer offices, and third-party locations.

Lead site engineering strategy for a high-speed FMCG manufacturing facility. Responsibilities include engineering budget management, preventive maintenance and asset reliability, capital project delivery, continuous improvement, utilities and site services oversight, contractor management, QSE compliance, and leadership of engineering teams. The role partners with production to improve line efficiency, plant uptime, flexibility, and cost performance while developing a high-performing engineering culture.

Manage engineering compliance and technical documentation for capital and site-led projects in a beverage manufacturing facility. Represent engineering in project meetings, oversee technical files and CMMS records, coordinate CEAP governance, verify machinery safety and statutory compliance, and facilitate operational handovers. The role also resolves commissioning issues with contractors and OEMs while applying continuous improvement methods to improve asset integration and site OEE.

Drive distribution and sales growth for AG Barr’s on-trade portfolio across the North East and York. Own KPIs, develop joint business plans, secure new accounts, manage supply/forecasting, execute activations, oversee promotional budgets, use data-driven insights, and maintain strong buyer and internal stakeholder relationships.