Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast-growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure, and people? Then this is the place for you.
As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don't compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.
To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient, and positive because we expect pace and agility. We insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivaled opportunities to learn and make an impact.
This role offers an agile 3,2 working pattern with 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.
As we try to reduce our carbon footprint and adapt our styles of working, pladis global's amazing head office in Chiswick Park offers great public transport links, agile working spaces, with both meeting and training rooms, as well as formal and informal workstations. The park also offers great restaurants and services for everything you need to suit your day.
What will this role achieve? We are crafting the FMCG landscape by being innovative, finding solutions, and working with our customers to help grow their businesses.
As a Sales Executive, you will play a key supporting role to our Savoury, Snacks, and Seasonal business worth £47M NSV. This role will give the successful candidate experience with a Top Four Grocery account and strong development opportunities for the future.
What will be your key deliverables? Support on Tesco Brand Plans, Promotional planning, and Shopper activation.Ensuring all customer requirements and sales planner admin is completed on time and in full.Customer Portal management.Management of Field Sales planning.Ownership of the sales forecast against business KPI's.Bring your experience. Experience within the FMCG category.Working autonomously and as part of a team towards business set targets.Ability to build positive internal and external relationships cross-functionally.Logical mind and strong eye for detail.High energy and resilience.Desire to learn, develop, and make a difference.Top 4 FMCG experience.Experience of dealing with Tesco as a customer.Experience in Impulse categories.Branded experience (as opposed to Retailer Brand).What will the interview process be? 1st stage interview – 45 minutes competency-based interview based on our company values and your experiences.2nd stage interview – 60 minutes – a technical interview to understand your skill set/case study or presentation interview.pladis does also use both Psychometric and Aptitude tests to support our processes so you may be asked to complete these as part of your process. Some processes may differ, but we will keep you updated!
What does pladis offer you? Annual Incentive Plan (AIP) – this is the business's annual bonus scheme.Opportunity to self-enrol into Health Cash Plan.Private medical Insurance.Life Assurance Cover ~ upon enrolment to Stakeholder Pension Scheme.25 days + bank holidays.1 Volunteering Day per year.Cycle to work scheme.Discounted gym membership.Discount and Cashback Scheme – make your everyday spending work hard for you on major high street brands, supermarkets, and services.Access to Employee Assistance Programme.Financial Wellbeing Support.Access to great training and development opportunities.Our Values Purpose-led – We're energised and guided by our purpose to bring happiness with every bite.Agile – We're ever evolving, we never stand still, always improving for our customers and our consumers.Positive – We're highly motivated, optimistic, courageous, and we inspire each other to be better.Resilient – We're persistent in the face of setbacks, quick to adapt, learn and move forward.Collaborative – We gain strength from operating as one pladis, winning and succeeding together.pladis is an equal opportunities employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion, or any other classification protected by law.
We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit candidates to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business. We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL.
About Uspladis is one of the world's fastest-growing snacking companies and home to much-loved brands including McVitie's, GODIVA, and Ülker. pladis also owns regional brands Jacob's, Go Ahead, Flipz, Turtles, BN, Verkade, and many more products across sweet and savoury biscuits, wafer, cake, and chocolate.
Formed in 2016, pladis is the proud steward of over 300 years of family baking and confectionery experience. The expertise of our 16,000-strong global workforce spans 27 bakeries across 11 countries and is united by our purpose: to 'bring happiness with every bite'.
As a responsible business delivering the highest quality products and exceptional service, pladis' products have the potential to reach more than four billion people across the world.
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