Job Title: Customer Development Executive
Location / Region: Portsmouth and surrounding areas
Industry: FMCG and Multi Channel
Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time
Salary / Rate: £29,000 & 10% Annual Bonus
Other Benefits: Lunch allowance, Company Vehicle + Fuel Card
The Role at a Glance
We’re recruiting a Customer Development Executive to manage and grow our Magnum across Portsmouth and surrounding areas. You’ll build strong relationships with store decision‑makers, negotiate additional displays, increase distribution and visibility, and drive sales for well‑known household brands.
This role is ideal for someone with field sales or direct selling experience who enjoys autonomy, building relationships, and seeing the direct impact of your work in store. It offers the chance to represent leading brands and work with a range of well‑known products. It also provides continuous support from colleagues, career growth opportunities and excellent perks.
About Us
McCurrach is part of Avidity Group Ltd, the parent company of a group of sales and marketing agencies (McCurrach, Standout, Wave, Thumbprint & Zing). We increase sales at the point of purchase. We are a leading field sales and marketing agency that helps brands sell more through a multi‑faced approach, with a focus on delivering outstanding service and optimising results.
We put brands in the spotlight by increasing visibility and driving sales through in‑person engagement and strategic marketing. We provide a sustainable, forward‑thinking environment that supports growth, innovation, and high performance.
About The Magnum Ice Cream Company
The Magnum Ice Cream Company is the world’s largest ice cream business and an industry leader, with 19,000 expert colleagues and iconic brands such as Wall’s, Cornetto, and Ben & Jerry’s. For more than 100 years we’ve taken pleasure seriously, delivering happiness with every lick and scoop and creating unforgettable experiences. Today, we’re on a mission to become the ultimate snacking company, encouraging growth, innovation, ownership mentality, and high performance.
What You’ll Be Doing
As a Customer Development Executive you’ll take full ownership of your area, working closely with the Regional Sales Manager and a supportive field team to achieve agreed KPIs.
Your key responsibilities include:
- Managing a territory and planning visits around store manager availability to maximise opportunities
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with store managers and key decision‑makers
- Negotiating additional displays and promotional activity
- Driving distribution, availability and compliance across agreed product ranges
- Executing merchandising activities in line with brand guidelines
- Actively selling and promoting products to maximise sales and visibility
- Using sales data to track performance and identify growth opportunities
- Managing CAPEX assets such as freezers on loan and premium POS, ensuring outlets meet contractual terms and conditions
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for a candidate with the following skills and experience. If your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we still encourage you to apply if you’re excited about this role.
- Experience working in field sales or a similar role
- Strong communication skills and confidence influencing stakeholders
- Excellent time‑management and territory‑planning ability
- Self‑motivated and results‑driven
- A full UK driving licence (no more than 6 points and no previous bans)
Nice to have:
- Merchandising or POS execution experience
- Direct selling skills
What You’ll Get in Return – Benefits and Perks
Our competitive benefits package includes:
- Competitive salary and remuneration: annual pay reviews, performance bonuses and early pay access
- Transport: Company vehicle and fuel card
- Flexible working technologies: 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, counselling, wellness workshops and mental health support
- Learning and development: PDR objectives, mentorship, career plans and access to internal vacancies across the Group Agencies
- Additional perks: discounted private healthcare, retail discounts, daily lunch allowance and life assurance
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 such as transgender and Ramadan policies, and celebrating diversity through engagement sessions for key events such as Pride, International Women’s Day and Black History Month.
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