Regional Field Sales Executive

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We have an exciting opportunity for an individual to join our industry leading Field Sales team as a Regional Field Sales Executive in Exeter and surrounding areas.

This is a field-based role and you will need to travel to customers’ sites across Exeter, Plymouth, Newton Abbot, Teignmouth, Salcombe, Brixham and surrounding areas. You will ideally live in Exeter or Plymouth to make it easier to travel to your customers’ sites. All candidates must hold a valid Full UK driving licence.

Join a long-standing, experienced team with fantastic relationships with retailers. We offer unrivalled training and a mentoring scheme. If you want to develop your career with an organisation that takes development, engagement, wellbeing and progression seriously, then this is the role for you.

About Imperial Brands: we are a truly international company, operating across 120 markets with 25,000 employees. We are an inclusive, innovative global FMCG business committed to growth and development.

• Deliver on the business's KPIs across Key Accounts, Key Accounts Wholesale and Independent Retailers
• Build an in-depth knowledge of customer needs and shopper dynamics
• Partner with retail Key Accounts, Independent and Wholesale outlets in your area to establish excellent relationships within your territory through a range of teams, with value-add conversations to sell in new products to meet the customer’s identified needs
• Build customer advocacy for our brands by educating retailers in the market and industry legislation
• Achieve sales, market share, distribution, availability and coverage targets within your defined area and ensure trade incentives and activities are used effectively
• Identify new business opportunities by developing knowledge of category and shopper behaviour in-store

• Previous and/or current Face to Face Sales Experience ideally within an FMCG business
• Experience in building face-to-face relationships
• Excellent communication and people skills with the ability to build rapport quickly
• Team player with understanding of wider team goals and how you can impact them
• Self-driven, managing time and resources effectively; able to use initiative and act independently when required
• Able to set and meet self-stretching targets

• Annual salary of £33,000 (£40,000 OTE)
• Generous pension scheme
• Company car, phone and tablet
• 29 days annual leave in addition to public and bank holidays, with an option to purchase additional holiday
• Competitive benefits including Health and wellbeing scheme, discount scheme & share save scheme

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and neurodivergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at  to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

We are a truly international company operating across 120 markets. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration drive our ambitions, innovation and success, supported by our award-winning development programmes.

We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.

• Not Applicable

• Full-time

• Tobacco Manufacturing

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