Regional Development Manager

Location: North West & Yorkshire

Reporting to: Head of Field

Why Join Us?

Salary of up to £35,000

Car Allowance of £5,000

Company Phone / Allowance & the tech support you day to day

Company Bonus Scheme – up to 20% of annual salary

Paid day off to celebrate your Birthday

❤️‍ £40 per Month to spend on your Health & Wellbeing

Who Are We?

Phoenix 2 Retail are the UK’s leading specialist distributor. We offer a unique route to market service to global brands who wish to gain distribution within the UK’s Vape and FMCG categories. Since our inception 2019 we have seen rapid growth and supported our clients deliver their objectives. Now is a brilliant time to join Phoenix 2 Retail as we continue our growth.

What You Will Be Doing?

This is a truly unique opportunity to make a huge difference in what we do and the value we provide to our clients and their brands. As one of the first hires in a newly created Field function, you will build your team from scratch. This newly created team will initially focus on ensuring our execution is perfect within Grocery and controlled convenience, they will work with the store’s leadership teams, department managers and store staff to ensure all barriers to sales are removed every visit, whilst ensuring our planograms & point of sale are in good condition, compliant and enough stock is reaching the store.

You’ll lead your team in exceeding KPIs, Coaching, Support and Performance Management to your direct reports, ensuring our values and mission is transferred into the field and beyond. You’ll inspire your team to go above & beyond for our clients and brands whilst ensuring your building a supportive, performance driven culture. You’ll have the gift of building relationships at every level, whilst being able to communicate complex strategies in a simple, clear and engaging way to ensure your taking your team on the journey with you.

• You will be responsible for the day-to-day operations & leadership of a brand-new Field Team
• This role is field based supporting our field team, working in the field 4 out of 5 days, with occasional travel to our office in Peterlee for meetings.
• Build and lead a high performing team; living and breathing our values, whilst ensuring the team is properly mentored, coached and developed.
• Further develop, and sustain a culture that is rich in diversity, representation and builds a pathway for Talent.
• Working with the Head of Field to support the development of the Field strategy & vigorously execute the plan to achieve against the strategy.
• Lead & influence our Field sales teams to always deliver high quality merchandising and compliance visits
• Be plugged in to the trends and insights from both our customers and the licensed sector to enable continuous learnings and to drive the evolution of our business.
• Be trading focused with strong commercially nous; continually looking for opportunities to drive profitability & efficiency and faster growth for the business.
• Engage efficiently with cross-functional Stakeholders, to help our business thrive.

We would love to meet someone with…

• A positive, mindset that sees all challenges as opportunities.
• Humility, and an ability to learn every day.
• An appetite to lead from the front.
• A great communicator, with people at the heart of everything they do.
• A sharp commercial mind – comfortable with optimizing a set of revenue driving KPIs.
• A proven track record of managing through influence, with the ability to take people with you.
• The skills and confidence to co-ordinate effectively across the business, working with Teams from Sales Performance to Learning & Development, to continually drive improvements to both Field Sales, and the broader business.
• Happy to work at pace, in a dynamic, and agile sector.
• Relentless about achieving success.
• A passionate voice on the significance of having a culturally rich, diverse Team, that promotes respect, equality and opportunity for all.
• This is a demanding, people centric role requiring high degrees of flexibility and occasional nights away from home.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Phoenix 2 Retail. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people, and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.