Business Development Executive in Hemel Hempstead

Wholesale Business Development Executive

Location / Region : Hemel Hempstead and the surrounding areas

Industry: FMCG / Wholesale

Working Pattern: Monday-Friday

Salary : Upto £31,000 per annum plus 10% bonus

Other Benefits: Company Car/Van + Fuel Card

The Role at a Glance

We’re recruiting a Wholesale BDE to manage and grow our Danone across Hemel Hempstead. You’ll build strong relationships with Wholesale and Cash & carry decision-makers, negotiate additional displays, increase distribution and visibility, and drive sales for well-known household brands.

As a Wholesale BDE, your role will be to call on the Top 8 Wholesale partners for Danone. Your remit will be to influence and agree space, range, promotional compliance and to attend sales events at depot. This will include actively managing shelf life quality of stock, ensure rotation, utilise bay space and palletised displays. You will be representing a wide range of Danone brands including Evain Water, Volvic Touch of Fruit, Alpro Plant Based UHT and Dairy SKU’s.

You will play a huge role in helping Danone drive sales by working with key contacts. You must be comfortable and capable manual handling/lifting stock.

About Us

Standout is part of Avidity Group Ltd, the parent company of a group of sales and marketing agencies (Standout, McCurrach, Wave, Thumbprint & Zing).

We put brands in the spotlight. We are a leading field marketing agency that helps brands increase visibility and drive sales through in-person engagement and strategic marketing. We work with household names across various industries and are dedicated to delivering an outstanding service and optimising results.

Be yourself and grow, have your voice heard, and develop your career with flexible working policies and an abundance of opportunity with a sustainable, forward-thinking agency.

About the Danone Account and Team

We are Danone, with the leading brands across 4 separate categories, you will be representing true leaders in the industry.

Passion, team spirit and go-getting attitude. Courage and ownership. Care and compassion. If these words resonate, you’ll feel right at home working for Danone.

Working on the Danone account, you have the opportunity to represent a company whose driving force is it's people. Danone recognises that together we are a force for good in the role we play through food & drink. A people powered company, where everyone at every level has a voice and share in the future

What We’re Looking For

We are ideally looking for a candidate who has the following skills and experience, but if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we still encourage you to apply you might be just the right person for our team.

• Experience working in field sales or similar role
• Strong communication skills and confidence influencing stakeholders
• Excellent time management and territory planning ability
• Be self‑motivated and results‑driven
• A full UK Driving Licence (no more than 6 points and no previous bans)

What You’ll Get in Return – Benefits and Perks

At Standout, we recognise that people are the key to our success. That’s why our benefits package is designed to offer continuous support, learning and development opportunities delivered by our in-house L&D team, support your wellbeing and work-life balance.

Our competitive benefits package includes:

• Competitive salary and remuneration: annual pay reviews, performance bonuses and early pay access
• Transport: Small Company van and fuel card
• Flexible working policies: SMART working options for all staff members
• Flexible annual leave entitlement: 23 days paid holiday + bank holidays (increasing with length of service) and the option to purchase 5 additional annual leave days
• Family friendly policies: enhanced sick pay, maternity/paternity leave, carers leave and parental leave
• Health and Wellbeing: Employee assistance programme, including 8 face-to-face counselling sessions, wellness taskforce, community of mental health first aiders and wellness workshops
• Learning and development: PDR objectives, mentorship, career development plans, access to internal vacancies across all our Group Agencies
• Additional perks: discounted private healthcare, retail discounts, daily lunch allowance and life assurance

If you’re looking for more information on the role, contact our recruitment team on recruitment@weareavidity.com referencing the job title and ID number, and a member of our team will get back to you shortly.

We have a fantastic track record of retaining colleagues and redeploying them into our other brand teams across Avidity Group. We are always looking for talented individuals to join our group of agencies.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Feel empowered to be your best and authentic self in a safe and supportive working environment. Our colleagues come from a variety of backgrounds, education, experience levels, age groups, religions and ethnicities. We’re committed to inclusive and blind recruitment practices, providing forward thinking policies e.g. transgender and Ramadan polices, and celebrating diversity through engagement sessions for key events e.g. Pride, International Women's Day and Black History Month.

Discover What It’s Like to Work with Us

A place where you can be yourself and grow. Our aim is simple - to create a workplace that allows you to be your authentic self, in an environment that supports your wellbeing and development. Build a career that works alongside your lifestyle, allowing you to achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Learn more about our culture and what it’s like to be a member of our team: Join an award-winning sales and marketing team.

• Read more about our commitment to our colleagues here.