Field Sales Representative

Salary: £33,600 – £42,000 per year

This is an exciting opportunity to join the industry leading and award winning Bestway field sales team!

About the Role:

You will be joining the ‘Grocer’s Logistic Supplier of the Year Winner’ (2019), your main responsibility is to deliver a fantastic service to our extensive customer base and represent both Bestway Wholesale and brand leading manufacturers selling our vast range of market leading FMCG products.

Enjoying the freedom to drive your own success, you’ll take your career in sales to the next level with the UK’s largest independent food and drinks wholesale group. Letting your customer service skills shine, you’ll build strong relationships to understand and meet your customer’s individual needs.

About our Benefits:

We’ll reward your hard work and customer service skills with a great package; In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a bonus and commission scheme and 22 days holiday, plus 8 statutory holidays. You could also look forward to a pension, tablet, phone and a depot shopping membership card that can be used across all of our sites.

Our 3-week in depth and professional training programme will give you all the skills, knowledge and confidence you will need to succeed. You could soon find yourself following set journey schedules and making planned and unscheduled sales visits to retailers, delivering unrivalled service to your customers. Allocated your own local territory and a van, your role will involve growing existing sales and developing new business across your sales territory, cash handling and stock management.

About You:

will know what great service looks like and shares our passion for providing customers with the right products, you must have a full UK driving licence and the motivation to exceed sales targets. A self-motivated team player and confident communicator, with a can-do attitude, you should also be passionate about building strong customer relationships.

Representing some of the biggest global FMCG brands, including KP, Cadbury’s (Mondelez), McVitie’s, Mars, Tayto, Kellogg’s, Nestle, Britvic, Fox’s, Wrigley’s, Ferrero, Seabrooks, Haribo, Tangerine, Chupa Chups, Fruittella, Mentos, Red Bull, InBev, Molson Coors, Burtons and many, many more, your customers will look forward to your regular and reliable visit.

About Us:

Established in 1976, Bestway Wholesale has grown to become the UK’s largest independent food and drink wholesaler, we also operate in Banking, Cement and Heath Care Sectors with UBL Bank, Bestway Cement and Well Pharmacy.

Our mission is to be the ‘Best Way to Grow your Food and Drinks Business’.

With 58 depots spanning the length and breadth of the UK, Bestway Wholesale is a supply partner to over 70,000 independent retailers and 40,000 catering and foodservice operators.

We have scale and purchasing power to help our customers compete in an ever-changing market. In addition to supplying to thousands of convenience stores, Bestway Wholesale also operates the award-winning Best-one symbol group which has 1,400 members across the country and over 3,500 independent retailers have chosen our depot-run promotion club, Xtra Local, as their retail club of choice.

Through the acquisition of Costcutter Supermarkets Group into our Bestway Retail Division, our annual wholesale turnover has grown to c£3b per year.

Bestway Retail now supports nearly 3000 symbol retailers as well as operating over 400 franchised stores, and over 170 company owned stores throughout England and Wales, we employ over 2500 colleagues who enable us to provide a great local retail service in our communities.

We own the UKs largest franchised off license and convenience chains which encompasses the brands Bargain Booze, Wine Rack, Select Convenience and Central Convenience. Our vision is to be the best value off licence led convenience retailer and wholesaler.

Both retailers and suppliers are supported by this new additional scale of the combined business, with the collaborative partnership approach making Bestway the partner of choice for growing sales in the convenience market.

Join us and you will be joining our fast-paced business, entrepreneurial and dynamic business. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us in this new venture!

What next?

If you are looking to launch, or grow, an exciting career in sales, join the Bestway family and take our great proposition to retailers in your community!