Field Sales Solutions has an exciting opportunity to join our award-winning business as a Category Development Manager, working with one of the world’s most iconic brands – Gillette (Procter & Gamble).
Are you driven, articulate and thrive on making things happen?
If you love being out in the field, influencing results and taking real ownership of a category, this could be the role for you.
About us
Field Sales Solutions are a leading field marketing agency, proud to be a three-time winner of the FMBE Field Marketing Agency of the Year Award. We partner with some of the UK’s most exciting and recognisable brands, delivering standout in-store execution that drives growth.
We’re now looking for a passionate and commercially focused individual to become a category expert within male & female grooming – growing sales, improving availability, educating store teams and delivering irresistible execution in store.
The Role
Territory Covered: CF5, CF10, CF11, CF14, CF24, CF31, CF32, CF34, CF37, CF40, CF44, CF47, CF48, CF62, CF63, CF64, CF72, CF83, SA1, SA4, SA5, SA6, SA7, SA10, SA12, SA14, SA18, SA31
As part of our Perfect Store Team, you’ll be the face of Gillette within your stores, driving performance across your territory by:
- Executing the male & female grooming category strategy to the highest standard.
- Influencing availability through a consultative, collaborative approach with in-store teams.
- Ensuring robust back-of-house processes, product protection and system compliance.
- Improving inventory accuracy through regular stock takes and root-cause analysis.
- Ensuring grooming fixtures are fully compliant to planograms, including SELs, facings and capacities.
- Acting as the key point of contact for Gillette, building strong, long-term store relationships.
- Conducting business reviews with store managers to drive store and regional growth.
- Using the Field View sales app to analyse performance, identify opportunity and create actionable plans.
- Sharing category insights, trends and data where approved to drive engagement and results.
- Delivering high-quality training to store colleagues on new products, initiatives and category knowledge.
What we’re looking for
- Excellent organisation and communication skills.
- Strong relationship-building ability and a consultative mindset.
- Experience combining negotiation skills with category development to grow sales.
- Knowledge of grocery and high-street retail environments.
- Understanding of category management.
- A self-motivated, resilient individual who thrives on achieving results.
- Full UK driving licence and eligibility to work in the UK.
What’s in it for you?
In return for joining Field Sales Solutions, we offer a competitive and rewarding package:
- £28,000 salary
- Up to 15% performance-related bonus
- Company car & fuel card
- In-house academy with best-in-class training and support
- Clear career development opportunities
- Incentive programmes, including retailer discount schemes
- Health, wellbeing and financial guidance support
- Holiday accrual linked to length of service
Our values
At Field Sales Solutions, our values guide everything we do:
- Partnership – Transparent, collaborative and focused on shared success
- Return – Driving activity that delivers a positive ROI
- Ownership – Accountable, purposeful and proactive
- Upstanding – Honest, ethical and professional
- Determined – Resilient, focused and driven to succeed
We are PROUD to be Field Sales Solutions.