UBI 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 support and manage French Africa Trading territories under the lead of the Business Development Manager focusing:

• 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 Business Development Manager 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 BDM on a monthly basis.
• Complete weekly sales tracker.
• 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 customers in-market sales out (if available)

Context

• The Regional Sales Intern role is to operate under the Business Development Manager direction (Hayes based) with specific responsibility for French Africa 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 requires 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)
• To deliver business target turnover for the concerned region;

Key Relationship

Internal

• Managing Director - periodically to update on performance
• Business Development : as required to review an on going business and implementation of plans.
• Customer service as required for order tracking
• Logistics personnels
• Supply chain periodic reviews to update forecasts

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

Qualification

University level

Language

Fluent French and ability to translate into English, effortlessly

Skills and Knowledge

• Basic arithmetic / mathematics
• Negotiations skills
• Adminstration/Financial skills
• Essential to be proficient on Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Essential to have good level of literacy in French