At a Glance
- Tasks: Drive sales growth and build relationships with key accounts in Northamptonshire.
- Company: Join Imperial Brands PLC, a global leader in FMCG with a vibrant culture.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, company car, generous leave, and health benefits.
- Other info: Inclusive environment with excellent career progression opportunities.
- Why this job: Perfect for ambitious graduates eager to make an impact in sales.
- Qualifications: Face-to-face sales experience and strong communication skills required.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 30000 £ per year.
Join to apply for the Field Sales Executive role at Imperial Brands PLC. Are you a graduate or early‑career sales professional ready to make your mark in a global FMCG business? We’re looking for a Field Sales Executive to join our high‑performing team and help drive growth across Northamptonshire and surrounding areas. Are you a confident, ambitious self‑starter ready to take your first or next step in sales? Do you thrive on hitting targets, building relationships, and making a real impact? If so, we’ve got the perfect opportunity for you.
Industry‑leading Field Sales Team
Join our industry‑leading Field Sales Team as a Field Sales Executive, where you’ll be part of a global business powered by 25,000 passionate employees and driven by innovation, inclusion, and excellence.
Why this role is perfect for graduates and junior sales talent
- Unrivalled Training & Mentoring: We’ll equip you with hands‑on experience, product and commercial knowledge, and ongoing support to help you grow.
- Career Progression: We take development seriously. Your success is our priority, and we’ll help you build a long‑term career.
- Inclusive Culture: Be part of a team that values engagement, well‑being, and collaboration.
This is a field‑based role, and you will need to be able to travel to your customers’ sites across Northamptonshire, Coventry, Leicestershire, Warwickshire and surrounding areas. You will ideally live in Northampton to make it easier to travel to your customers’ sites. All candidates must hold a valid Full UK driving licence.
Principle Accountabilities
- Deliver on the business's KPI's across Key Accounts Wholesale and Independent Retailers.
- Build an in‑depth knowledge of customer needs and shopper dynamics.
- Partner with retail Key Accounts, Independent and Wholesale outlets in your area, establishing excellent relationships within your territory through a range of Key Accounts Operations Teams to Independent Retailers and key contacts within wholesaler, having value‑add conversations to sell in new products to meet the customer’s identified needs.
- Build customer advocacy for our brands by educating retailers in the market and industry legislation.
- Achieve sales, market share, distribution, availability, and coverage targets within your defined area and ensure that our trade incentives and activities are put to the best use.
- Identify new business opportunities by having an enhanced knowledge of the category and shopper behaviour in‑store.
Skills and Experience Required
- Previous and / or current Face to Face Sales Experience.
- Experienced in building face to face relationships.
- Have excellent communication and people skills, and proven ability to build rapport quickly.
- Be a team player with an understanding of wider team goals and how you can impact them.
- Self‑supportive, managing time and resources effectively; and be able to use your initiative and to act exclusively when required.
- Able to set and meet self‑stretching targets.
What We Offer
- Annual salary of £30,000 (£37,000 OTE).
- Generous pension scheme.
- Company car, phone and tablet.
- 29 days annual leave in addition to public and bank holidays, with an option to purchase additional holiday.
- Competitive benefits including: Health and wellbeing scheme, discount scheme & share save scheme.
Everyone Belongs
Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.
About Us
We’re a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award‑winning development programmes that create exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all. Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.
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