Field Sales Executive â Manchester
Field Sales Executive â Manchester
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Job Description
Hello potential future Oatly employee. Its us the original oat drink company that started in Sweden back 30 or so years ago.
Our mission To make it easier for people to eat better and live healthier lives without throwing the planet under the bus in the process. If that makes you want to stand up fist-pump and shout Yes! or even just a mild Cool Im into that then maybe youd like to join us. (Fun fact: we were recently voted one of 2024s best places to work for a small organisation.)
The Role
Weve got an exciting opportunity for Oatly in Manchester! This role in particular will be to call on sites across the city: from coffee shops bakeries and restaurants to potentially convenience stores bars and event spaces to sell in Oatly to businesses that dont already have it or help support sites that do with activations or education. Youll need to know Manchester like the back of your hand love being out and about talking to customers learning about their businesses and thinking of ways Oatly can help them grow.
Heres some of what the day-to-day could look like...
- Be out and about every day calling on sites in Manchester those sites will mostly be coffee shops bakeries and restaurants but there may be more.
- Identify sites that dont currently stock Oatly and pitch the Oatly dream to them helping them become a stockist
- Have conversations on pricing and run a simple price negotiations to agree new listings.
- Build relationships with sites that already stock Oatly and work with them to find ways to sell even more based on a toolkit well provide you.
- Run simple events for sites such as drinks giveaways or tastings.
- Attend industry and community events to learn about the industry and help make Oatly part of it.
- Over time become an expert on the world of coffee other hot drinks and cold drinks containing milk. Youll understand the customers operating in these areas and be tuned in to the very latest drinks trends.
- Maintain a call file for all of your customers well provide you with the database and the tool youll just need to log all of your activity upcoming plans and customer feedback.
Who You Are
If the below sounds like you wed love you to apply:
- Youve got a full UK driving licence and youre based in Manchester.
- Youll start a conversation with anyone and you really enjoy building relationships.
- You love being out and about visiting customers talking to new people and getting stuff done.
- Youre comfortable (once taught) doing simple commercial maths like how to calculate margin.
- Youre a self-starter whos comfortable working mostly with a virtual team at Oatly and the real life team of your customers!
- Youre energetic and resilient you wont let a no get you down. You brush yourself off and come back even more determined to win the next time.
- You feel connected to our mission of encouraging health sustainability and transparency.
- Were a motivated enthusiastic kind positive and values driven team and we hope youre these things too.
Another bulleted list felt redundant so we made this page talking about all the benefits we offer to sweeten the deal working with us before you apply if youre curious check out this fancy page right here.
Phew! Well done if youve got this far. Were glad weve still got your attention because weve got one last super important point to make.
As you can probably tell were a norm-breaking company. For us diversity and differences are an obvious asset. We know that amazing candidates can sometimes be put off applying for a job unless they can tick every box and that makes us really sad. So please trust your gut and pop in your application if its feeling right. Good luck!
A Note On AI
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Employment Type
Full Time
