Regional Sales Placement

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About United Biscuits

Our fundamental business purpose is to provide simple and wholesome pleasures for our consumers and we do this by baking goodness into all our products. We have a portfolio of well recognised brands which include McVities, Jaffa Cakes, Jacobs, Delacre, Go Ahead, Penguin and many more. Our ambition is to build on our heritage and core strengths and compete as a world-class biscuit business. We believe our impressive stable of brands and reputation for product quality has huge potential for growth.

If you are interested in pursuing an internship in the dynamic FMCG world, then United Biscuits is the perfect place for you. There has never been a more exciting time to join our business as we invest heavily in our brands, infrastructure and people.

Purpose

To assist in the management of Australasian, Caribbean & Central American and French Overseas Trading Markets under the direction of the Regional General Manager and two Regional Managers, focusing on the following:

• To develop customer relationships with our key customers in these markets.
• To assist and provide inputs into presentations preparation such as range reviews and performance.
• To evaluate new market opportunities with existing customers.
• To assist and ensure reliable and timely sales reporting between UBI and customers.
• To support and work with to establish a product range, pricing, promotional activity (if required) in key markets and develop an ongoing in market support plan to deliver budget.
• To monitor competitive activities in these markets and report to RGM on a monthly basis.
• To ensure the smooth running of all aspects of the ordering/forecasting/ supply procedures for the whole UBI range for these markets.
• To analyse ongoing retail scan data and customers in-market sales
• To manage the provision of samples to our markets.

Context

• The Regional Sales Intern role is to operate under the direction of the Regional General Manager and two Regional Managers with specific responsibility for Australasian, Caribbean & Central American and French Overseas Trading Markets.
• One key objective is to continue to grow the relationship with our key customers so that they see UBI as a serious partner who is willing to grow with their businesses and markets.
• The role will require internal liaison with other parts of UBI / Supply Chain / BN Team / Factories in France.
• The role will require some domestic travelling to BN factory in France (occasionally).

Key Relationships

Internal:

• Business Development: as required to review an ongoing business and implementation of plans.
• Customer service as required for order tracking
• Logistics personnel
• Supply chain periodic reviews to update forecasts

Decision making authority: Day to day – weekly/monthly plans to be developed and agreed with Business Development Manager.

Person Specification:

Qualification: 

• Be in either your penultimate year of study, returning to your degree course at the end of the placement or a graduate who has recently graduated and is looking for work experience.
• Has obtained or is predicted a 2.1
• Must have the right to live and work in the UK for the full duration of the role 
• Must have achieved a minimum of 240 UCAS points 

Skills and Knowledge: 

• Basic arithmetics/Mathematics 
• Negotiations skills 
• Administration/Financial skills 
• Essential to be proficient on Word, Excel and PowerPoint 
• Essential to have good level of literacy in French and ideally Spanish