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Customer Development Executive
Customer Development Executive
McCurrach on behalf of The Magnum Ice Cream Company
Location
📍 Reddish & Surrounding Areas (Ideal Postcode: M18) 📍 Permanent, Full-Time – 40 hours per week
Salary & Benefits
✅ £29,000 basic salary ✅ 10% annual bonus ✅ Tax-free lunch allowance ✅ Company vehicle & fuel card ✅ Flexible (SMART) working ✅ Continuous coaching, learning & development ✅ Employee Assistance Programme ✅ 23 days paid holiday + public holidays ✅ Annual leave purchase scheme
About The Magnum Ice Cream Company
Join the world’s largest ice cream business, home to iconic brands like Wall’s, Cornetto, and Ben & Jerry’s, enjoyed in 76 countries!
For over 100 years, we’ve made life taste better through pure pleasure, innovation, and unforgettable ice cream experiences. Today, we’re growing as an ultimate snacking company, empowering employees to thrive through growth, ownership, and high performance.
The Role
As a Customer Development Executive (CDE), you will:
- Drink creativity and strategic thinking to promote the total Walls portfolio to independent customers.
- Identify and win high-potential accounts by analysing opportunity gaps.
- Work with a data-led call plan, shaping a territory strategy with support from your Regional Manager.
- Be accountable for driving growth through increased distribution, availability, visibility, compliance, and execution.
- Act as an ambassador for brands like Walls, Magnum, Cornetto, and Ben & Jerry’s, bringing brand awareness and brand experience to life!
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Key Responsibilities
Customer Relationships
- Build long-term relationships with customers, understanding their business needs and local consumers.
- Influence wholesaler transfer orders through strong advocacy and activation.
- Support store-level Joint Business Plans (JBPs) within QSR chains.
Territory & Business Growth
- Create and deliver a winning territory business plan for growth.
- Analyse and track performance against KPIs, using data and insights to drive decisions.
- Execute promotions and activations to maximise impact and compliance.
Administrative & Compliance
- Ensure all reporting, systems, and compliance tasks are completed accurately and on time.
- Manage CAPEX assets (e.g., Freezers on Loan, premium POS) to meet contractual obligations.
Smart Working Approach
- Balanced between independent work and team collaboration, using remote work options where suitable.
What You’ll Need
✔ Driven, target-focused, and team player with a passion for bringing brands to life in retail. ✔ Strong commercial acumen—comfortable negotiating, growing territories and building relationships. ✔ Exceptional communication skills to influence stakeholders at all levels. ✔ Experience in FMCG, Direct Sales, Convenience, or Field Sales is advantageous but not essential. ✔ Thrive in a fast-paced environment, with organisational skills, analytical abilities, and resilience. ✔ IT-literate, with MS Office & CRM/data system experience. ✔ Full valid UK driving licence (no more than 6 penalty points or previous convictions). ✔ Eligible to work in the UK and **able to commute from Reddish (M18).
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How This Could Be You
Believe More Pleasure
You’re optimistic, energetic, and love driving results. You delight in problem-solving and turning challenges into wins.
Be Your Best
We’re a high-performance company, and you flourish when you have coaching, growth opportunities, and a supportive culture. We celebrate progress as much as perfection.
Lead with Humour
Our workplace is collaborative, engaging, and full of personality. You’d feel right at home energising teams and spreading our shared passion for ice cream.
"At The Magnum Ice Cream Company, we know one thing for sure: life tastes better with ice cream."
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If you’re ready to grow with us, make an impact, and shape the future of ice cream—apply today!
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