Job Title: Business Unit Director
Location:National, Field Based
Reports to: Sales Director
Direct Reports: This role is a people leader role
Let’s Grow!!!
Are you passionate about delivering strategic excellence and results through your Senior Leadership?
If you thrive on a challenge and are looking to grow your career - we have an opportunity for you to join us at AG Barr as a Business Unit Lead.
What we’re looking for…
This role offers an exciting blend - delivering operational and safety plans, achieving stretching commercial results and providing strategic oversight and planning - all through effective leadership, coaching and engagement of our people and partners.
As a Business Unit Director, you will lead a specific business unit to deliver excellence.
You will be responsible for customer relationships, creation and execution of sales plans across multi-channel customers, commercial agreements internally and externally, category and shopper insight, operational and field-based objectives and the training and development of your teams.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Health and Safety Prioritising a safe and inclusive work environment by ensuring full compliance and that safe ways of working are second nature across all teams
- Leadership of a multi-disciplined team to create a high performing and engaged workforce. Provide guidance, supervision, motivation and role modelling behaviours to foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
- Performance Delivery Monitor and evaluate performance, facilitating the delivery of a range of key metrics , commercials, and business unit targets and objectives
- Strategy and Planning Develop and execute comprehensive business unit plans and strategies that contribute to the company's growth goals and objectives
- Training & Development Management of training aligned to commercial competencies and Barr Behaviours to ensure the team is competent and building capability and succession planning through a feedback and development plan culture
- Financial Control Working with your finance partners, delivering effective management of the business unit's P&L through regular reviews of cost base, commercial budgets, and fixed and variable investments, with a view to achieving all commercial contribution targets and objectives
- Keeping us legal Ensure company policies and legal guidelines are communicated from the top down in the company and are followed at all times
- Operational Working with internal and external partners to maximise efficiencies, cost control, stock holding and service levels to deliver a best-in-class operational focus to our company
What you will bring:
- Significant experience in senior sales leadership within an FMCG environment, preferably with a major customer, large team management, commercial and category experience - with a proven track record of delivery and achievement
- Driven to deliver the best, personally and for the business. Motivated by responsibility, an energetic self-starter who is results-orientated, tenacious and deadline-driven. A high degree of self-belief and desire to progress.
- Inspirational Leadership, capable of providing clear direction for the teams, and motivated to constantly drive safety, development, performance targets, and efficiencies to a high standard. Promotes autonomy within the team, has a flexible approach, and encourages an ethos of managing upwards
- Influential communicator, able to engage effectively at all levels, with gravitas and a flexible communication style which can be adapted to suit the audience. Able to construct an engaging business case/argument and vary approach and content to motivate, persuade and challenge.
- Discipline with high standards and a natural flair for organisation, administration and attention to detail. Will see work through from start to finish, managing multiple and often conflicting priorities
- Decisiveness, confident in making difficult decisions, balancing data analysis with personal judgement and considering the wider business ramifications.
- Proficiency using IT systems is required with an interest in leveraging data and tech
What we offer…
We believe in creating a diverse and inclusive culture where your voice can be heard. Our skilled, loyal and committed people are critical to the future success of AG Barr which is why we are continually investing in our employees to develop their talent.
We look after our employees by offering a competitive salary and benefits package which includes;
- Flexible Pension Scheme
- Private Medical benefit
- Automatic life Assurance
- Company Car allowance
- Annual Bonus Opportunity
- 33 days holiday with flexible holiday trading
- Healthcare Cash Plan
- Range of flexible benefits e.g. discounts & cash backs, gym memberships, technology purchases etc
- Save as you earn scheme
- Staff sales discount
- Access to Peppy - health and well being support
- Free AG Barr products throughout your working day
- Ongoing professional development
To find out more about what it is like to work for AG Barr, please visit our careers platform here.
We are an equal opportunities employer and happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that may be needed for successful candidates with a disability, health or mental health condition.
GROW with AG Barr
If you’re ready to lead, inspire and connect with people across the business, apply now to become part of our Team.
Let’s Grow!!!
Speculative CVs from agencies will not be accepted.
Latest closing date for applications is 1pm on 20th December 2024
Please note, we may close vacancies early where we receive significant numbers of applications, so apply now!
