Job Title: Business Development Representative, Multiple Outlets - Scotland
Location: Central Belt, Scotland, United Kingdom
Contract and working pattern: Field Based, Permanent Full-time
Are you ready to Be Your Best Barr None?
Lets Grow!!!
We are all about Being Your Best Barr None and having a career with real Moments that Matter!
Employing around 950 people across the UK, we are proud to be a responsible business that takes care of our people, values diversity, gives something back to our communities and works to minimise our environmental impact.
For 150 years AG Barr has been building great brands and is home to some of the nations favourite flavours.
At our core is IRN-BRU, launched in 1901 and still going strong today, the vibrant RUBICON fruit based brand, Boost making every moment better with a caffeine kick, hydration hit or tasty treat, and FUNKIN where real fruit means authentic taste.
We also have a number of exciting owned brands within our portfolio including MOMA, which crafts quality oats into great tasting oat drinks and porridges.
There's never been a better time to join us!
What we’re looking for…
The MULTS Business Development Representative is primarily responsible for merchandising to protect availability, driving visibility by activating POS & agreeing secondary points of interruption for display - with the focus on the core AG Barr brands as the key instore driver. On top of this, each BDR will have a defined territory of stores to develop model store status.
We are looking for Business Development Representative to drive increased sales of the various AG Barr brands in the key geographies UK wide. BDR’s will be educating the retailers about AG Barr core brands within a given territory of 60 Multiple & Discounter outlets, as well as merchandising our brands in the best way in each outlet to build maximum rate of sale. You will be creating impactful visibility to drive consumer awareness, building impulse purchase displays to increase value and to protect availability.
Your responsibilities will include...
As a BDR your responsibilities will include;
- Presenting brands via a prepared presentation and securing a commitment to increase the share of shelf and local display
- Completing admin for each completed call
- Ability to manually handle the movement of large quantities of stock in compliance with our manual handling procedure
- Physical placement or reorganisation of products into customers chilled equipment in the best position - Drink Now
- Physical placement or reorganisation of products into customers ambient shelving in the best position - Take Home
- Placement of point of sale (POS) at key points of interruption within the store
- Activating local/regional agreed displays and identifying opportunities for additional points of interruption (POI)
- Support & involvement in any additional project opportunities across Take Home &/or Drink Now within given territory
Requirements
What you’ll bring...
- Full UK driving licence essential
- Ability to work unsupervised
- Ability to present information at a hight standard internally, using account performance data and in store execution
- Fluent in English
- Experience merchandising FMCG brands and building impactful in-store displays
- Experience working with retail outlets
- Ability to move stock, restock chillers, and reorganise shelving
- Willingness to travel across Scotland
- Experience selling into multiple retailers, managing a territory of stores, or handling account-facing conversations with store managers and buyers is preferred
- Experience with CRM systems and sales reporting tools is preferred
- Experience managing a multi-outlet territory independently is preferred
- Flexibility to attend monthly team meetings that may require overnights is preferred
Benefits
What we offer…
We believe in creating a diverse and inclusive culture where your voice can be heard. Our skilled, loyal and committed people are critical to the future success of AG Barr which is why we are continually investing in our employees to develop their talent.
We look after our employees by offering a benefits package which includes;
- Annual bonus linked to business performance
- Company car
- Defined contribution Pension
- 34 days holiday
- Flexible holiday trading
- Flexible cash pot to spend on benefits
- Healthcare Cash Plan
- Flexible benefits e.g. discounts & cashbacks, gym memberships, technology purchases etc
- Life assurance
- Save as you earn scheme
- Staff sales discount
- Free AG Barr products throughout your working day and staff sales
- Ongoing professional development and access to Learning and Development programmes and content
And much more!
We are an equal opportunities employer and happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that may be needed for successful candidates with a disability, health or mental health condition.
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Skills Required
- Full UK driving licence
- Ability to work unsupervised
- Ability to present information to a high standard using account performance data and in-store execution
- Fluent English
- Experience merchandising FMCG brands and building impactful in-store displays
- Experience working with retail outlets
- Ability to move stock, restock chillers, and reorganise shelving
- Willingness to travel across Scotland
- Experience selling into multiple retailers, managing a store territory, or handling account-facing conversations with store managers and buyers
- Experience with CRM systems and sales reporting tools
- Experience independently managing a multi-outlet territory
- Flexibility to attend monthly team meetings that may require overnight stays
What We Do
We are a UK-based branded multi beverage business that is ambitious and value driven, with strong consumer focus,. We are brand owners and builders, offering a diverse and differentiated portfolio of brands that people love. The company was established over 145 years ago in Scotland. At our core is the Barr Soft Drinks division, home to some of the UK’s most loved soft drinks brands. Whether it’s the iconic IRN-BRU, launched in 1901 and still going strong today, the vibrant RUBICON fruit based brand or the unique range of BARR flavours, Barr Soft Drinks’ brands offer people a choice of great tasting products and bring exciting innovation to the market, available across multiple channels. Our FUNKIN business operates within the exciting and growing cocktail market. Real fruit means authentic taste and FUNKIN believes that to shake the best cocktail you have to use the best ingredients. That’s why they use the best fruit to create their premium products, famous amongst top bartenders. Now the UK’s number 1 cocktail brand FUNKIN provides innovative and unique purées, syrups, mixers and ready to drink cocktails, for behind the bar and at home. Our BOOST business is always looking for new trends and to appeal to the evolving tastes of drinkers. Proud to offer an exciting range of flavours across several functional drinks categories - Energy Stimulation, Sport and Iced Coffee - BOOST enjoys a very strong position within the UK independent retail channel and has an exclusive sales and distribution partnership with the fruit drinks brand RIO. MOMA uses a blend of the highest quality wholegrain jumbo oats that give its oat drinks a full-bodied flavour and its porridge a distinctively creamy texture. MOMA believes in crafting simple, natural ingredients into food and drink that tastes. AG Barr’s simple, effective and profitable business model - making, moving, marketing and selling - is supported by strong partnerships, talented people and responsible actions.
