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Merchandiser, Bournemouth & New Forest
Commercial: Field Sales
80188
07/01/2022
The overview
People know and love our brands like Coca-Cola, Fanta, Dr Pepper and Sprite. As an ambassador for CCEP, you’ll bring them alive, making sure they are always available to consumers and providing a fantastic experience to our customers. They could be supermarket chains, local convenience stores, wholesalers, restaurants, cafés… or many other outlets.
Success profile
Along with the ability to build a great rapport with customers, you’ll need a solution-focused approach to business problems. We also look for the determination to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment A driving licence is essential, and you’ll need to be eligible to work in your chosen location.
Results driven
Self starter
Organised
Enthusiastic
Relationship expert
Career path
Many Field Sales Representatives and Merchandisers are happy to stay in the role, giving their best and earning high rewards. But it can also be a springboard to move into national and key account management, or a sales management or merchandising team leader role. An example of a potential career path is here:
The role
Merchandiser, Bournemouth & New Forest
Location:
Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Outline of the role
Are you looking for new challenges and personal growth within Coca-Cola Europacific Partners? Then we have a great opportunity for you!
Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect?
Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing?
Will you make an impact with your desire to win?
Join one of the world's most recognisable brands as a Grocery Merchandiser within our field sales team. This entry-level position will provide the perfect starting point for a career with Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, enabling you to develop your skills with best-in-class training and support.
The Day-to-Day Role
Your role will be to increase the availability and visibility of our iconic beverages, ensuring compliance to any national agreements across Supermarkets and Convenience outlets within your territory through;
- Checking any store priorities prior to the call
- Signing into the store and introducing yourself to key store contacts.
- Merchandising CCEP products, ensuring stock is on sale on the shop floor and displayed as agreed.
- Investigating and resolving any availability issues by working with store contacts and your account executive where applicable
- Making sure any current promotions are activated and in line with the nationally agreed plan and that they are full and priced correctly.
- Ensuring coolers both CCEP and supplier are compliant to nationally agreed plans
- Assembling promotional displays if required (e.g. Point of sale)
At the end of the call, answering question sets about the call on our mobile app.
Please note: this role requires Saturday work and occasional evening work as part of your weekly hours.
What We Expect Of You
- Effective communication skills: building rapport with colleagues and in-store contacts as well as influencing customer is essential.
- Meet customer needs with a flexible and proactive approach to problem-solving.
- To use mobile phone apps for inventory and administrative purposes.
- Manual handling of branded packs is a requirement of the role.
What We Provide
- £21,982 OTE
- A 37.5-hour working week
- 45 pence per business mile for 1st 10,000 miles and then 25p per mile thereafter
- iPhone
- Pension & Share plan
- Host of flexible benefits
You Will Need
- Eligibility to work in the UK
- Use of your own car, a full driving license & business insurance
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) is a major fast-moving consumer goods business and the world’s largest independent Coca-Cola bottler. With a dedicated team of 33,200 people, serving customers in 29 countries, we make, sell and distribute the world’s most loved drinks brands to more than 600 million people, including Coca-Cola®, Fanta®, Powerade®, Glaceau Vitaminwater®, Monster® and Capri-Sun®. And we want a workforce as diverse as our products – with a culture that fosters belonging and inclusivity. One that enables everyone to be themselves, whatever their background or experience. From gender, age and ethnicity to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcome people from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognise we’ve got some way to go, but we’ll get there with the support of our people. It’s them who drive our future growth. To find out more about what it’s like to work at and our culture we would welcome you to speak to one of our employees on our live chat platform, just click here to speak to an insider
Meet our people
No two stores are the same, and I love meeting different people everyday
Mohammad K
Merchandiser
See Mohammad's storyThe benefits
There are great benefits for hitting your targets and delivering a great customer experience. You can look forward to:
A market-competitive basic salary plus sales bonus to give you every incentive to excel
Phone, iPad and laptop, dependent on role. Company car for you to visit your customer base (not applicable to Merchandisers)
Flexible benefits programme for you and your family, covering savings and finance, wellbeing and lifestyle
Pension and share plan to help you prepare for the future