A rare chance to help build emerging drinks brands from the ground up, opening new customers, partnerships, events and routes to market.
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Business Development Manager - Emerging Drinks Brands
This is a home/field-based role with UK customer travel.
Customers are spread nationally, so there is flexibility on location, although a South West base may be helpful due to occasional HQ visibility and wider business activity in the region.
Permanent
£45,000-£55,000 + 10% bonus + £5,000 car allowance + benefits
The Opportunity
We're supporting a well-established UK drinks business with the appointment of a Business Development Manager to help accelerate growth across a portfolio of emerging and incubator brands.
This is not a role where you are simply inheriting a mature account base and maintaining existing relationships. It is much more about getting into the market, spotting opportunities, opening doors and turning early-stage conversations into commercially valuable customer partnerships.
You'll be working across a mix of new drinks brands, including moderation-led, spirits-led and event-friendly propositions, with the backing of a wider business that understands brand building, activation, distribution and commercial execution.
The role would suit someone who enjoys autonomy, is energised by new business and can move confidently between customers, events, internal teams and commercial planning.
Key Responsibilities
Build and convert a strong new business pipeline across customers, outlets, events, festivals and partnerships.
Identify where the brands are not currently visible and create practical routes to market.
Lead customer conversations, proposals and commercial negotiations.
Develop event, festival and experiential opportunities that improve visibility and drive value.
Work closely with Marketing, Revenue Management, Operations and wider commercial teams to make plans commercially viable and deliverable.
Keep forecasting, trade spend and customer activity well-managed behind the sale. xgikmsk
What We're Looking For
You'll need to be a natural new business developer - someone who enjoys creating momentum, chasing opportunities and building relationships from a standing start.
Food, drink or FMCG experience would be very useful, but we are also open to people from broader consumer brand, event-led, hospitality, on-trade, experiential or challenger brand backg...
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