Regional Manager
Overview:
Regional Manager – Unilever Grocery
Area Covers: Northern Ireland, Liverpool & surrounding areas
Permanent, Full-Time
Salary upto £40K per annum, annual bonus + other benefits including private health care, annual leave purchase
Our Unilever Grocery team are growing! Do you want to kick start with a new opportunity with one of the world's leading companies?
You may not realise but you probably use a Unilever product in your everyday life. Operating in 190 countries Unilever’s portfolio includes some of the world’s leading brands in personal care, nutrition, homecare, beauty & wellbeing, these include: Persil, Sure, Lynx, Hellmann’s, Tresemme, Dove and Comfort.
Can you lead, motivate and engage a field sales team to deliver results? We have a unique opportunity to join us as a Regional Manager on our Unilever Grocery account. As a Regional Manager your focus will be on performance managing your field team - ensuring delivery of results through field-based coaching, team meetings, training, development and appraisals.Ideally, you will have experience of leading a field based team preferably within the FMCG industry. You will also have experience in a client facing enviroment and be strong at building relationships with key stakeholders. Your team will be operating in the Grocery sector, visiting the big 4 supermarkets plus Boots, B&M and Poundland, enhancing product availability and visibility.
You will also be responsible for the following:
- People management & team leadership
- Ownership of team performance in delivering agreed objectives
- Training, coaching & development
- Working in partnership with our in-house recruitment team to recruit & retain
- Commercial insight from the field, providing effective and timely reporting
- Developing and enacting joint business plans with the Client to deliver results
What’s in it for me?
Here are just a few of the reasons our colleagues love working here:
- SMART Working, 40 hours Monday- Friday
- Company car & fuel card
- We champion equality & inclusivity and are passionate about creating a workplace that promotes and values diversity.
- On top of your 25 days holiday per annum + bank holidays you can purchase additional annual leave up to 5 extra days per annum
- Family-friendly policies & support such as enhanced maternity or paternity pay, enhanced adoption pay, carers leave & parental leave*
- Plus, lots of amazing discounts, financial & wellbeing support via our EAP, life assurance, enhanced sick pay
- We encourage flexibility, life outside of work and a healthy work/life balance so take advantage of our smart working policy
- Annual pay reviews and access to early pay
- Plus, lots of amazing discounts, life assurance x3 salary, enhanced sick pay, health cash plan, private health care & more
- Fantastic progression opportunities across Avidity Group
If this sounds like the perfect next step in your career then don't miss out, apply now!
Please note this role requires a full UK manual driving licence (with no more than 6 pts or previous bans), all offers will be subject to successful completion of a DVLA licence check. This is a field based role which will involve regular travel on a daily basis, so you must be comfortable driving distance.Overnights may be required on occasion.
Responsibilities:
Regional Manager – Unilever Grocery
Area Covers: Liverpool, Northern Ireland & surrounding areas
Permanent, Full-Time
Grade 2
Due to growth, we are looking for additional Regional Managers to join our expanding Unilever Grocery Team.
This is the perfect opportunity for a current Grade 3 ready for the next step in their career OR current Grade 2 looking to diversify their RM experience.
As a Regional Manager your focus will be on performance managing your field team - ensuring delivery of results through field-based coaching, team meetings, training, development and appraisals. Ideally, you will have experience of leading a field based team preferably within the FMCG industry.You will also have experience in a client facing enviroment and be strong at building relationships with key stakeholders.
Our Unilever Grocery team represent the range of personal care, nutrition, homecare, beauty & wellbeing . Calling on Grocery stores, they work with our current customer base to increase the presence and sales of the Unilever portfiolio (Tresemme, Lynx, Comfort, hellmann's).
You will also be responsible for the following:
- People management & team leadership
- Ownership of team performance in delivering agreed objectives
- Training, coaching & development
- Working in partnership with our in-house recruitment team to recruit & retain
- Commercial insight from the field, providing effective and timely reporting
- Developing and enacting joint business plans with the Client to deliver results
You will be considered a high performer in your current role and ideally will have put yourself forward for additional challenges i.e. projects, active taskforce participant, internal secondments. Please remember to speak to your line manager before applying as we will need to confirm their endorsement of your application during the recruitment process.
If you are a current Regional Manager looking to widen your experience, please remember a sideways move can be highly beneficial in your career journey with Avidity Group.
Remember to speak to your line manager in the first instance before applying. You will be asked to fill in a short application form and to upload an up to date CV