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Field Sales Manager (AFH) - Reading/Windsor

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners
Reading
4 days ago
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Are you looking for new challenges within Coca-Cola Europacific Partners? 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?

 

Field Sales Manager (Away From Home)

Location: Reading / Windsor

Contract type: Permanent

 

 

Looking for a new professional challenge supporting a high-octane field sales team?

Do you want to be the face of one of the world’s most recognisable brands? Relentless focus on delivery and customer experience in store is at the heart of everything we do! As we strive to be the best in our market, we deliver leading tools & technology to our field sales teams whilst investing in our people so that you can genuinely drive your personal career development - and our business!

 

What we expect of you

As a Field Sales Manager you will lead a team of sales representatives, inspiring and coaching them to deliver on our challenging sales and distribution targets. All achieved by strengthening existing customer relationships and developing the team’s capabilities to become experts in the soft drink category.

 

The customers that you and your team will be interacting with daily will vary, however will include independent convenience stores, licensed pubs, bars, restaurants and cafes.

 

As one of our Sales Managers you will play a pivotal role in coaching and mentoring the team to deliver performance and add value to the customer. You will be responsible for embedding and delivering structured weekly meetings and training with a high energy, inspiring, fresh and creative approach. You will utilise the wider commercial plans and data to pull insights, set team direction, and identify opportunities.

 

To succeed in this role, experience in a sales environment is essential, along with strong financial and commercial awareness. Ideally, exposure to an FMCG, retail, or pharmaceutical environment would be beneficial, though it is not essential.

 

However, we’re not just looking for sales experience. Experience in people management and/or coaching is essential, as is the ability to motivate a customer-facing sales team to deliver excellent results.

 

Skills Requirements 

  • Coaching – inspire your team to great things
  • Consultative – use data and stats to deliver great outcomes for both us and our customers
  • Commercial – financial awareness, numeracy and an entrepreneurial outlook
  • Leadership – deliver great results through your team
  • Customer Service - demonstrate excellent customer service and inter-personal skills to drive first class customer relationships
  • Plan - show that you can plan & prioritise for success
  • Solutions - take solution focused approaches to problems
  • Positive - show that you have an adaptable & growth mindset to change & customer needs
  • Resilience - in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment

The closing date for applications is 07/06/25. We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of applications. To ensure you are considered for this role, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world’s most loved drinks.
We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day.

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

We recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If that’s true for you – please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.

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