Job Title

Business Development Representative, Multiple Outlets - Scotland

Location

Central Belt, Scotland, United Kingdom

Contract and working pattern

Field Based, Permanent Full-time

About Us

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.

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.

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

• 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 high 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…

• 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

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.