Brakes UK
Field Sales Consultant
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Field Sales Consultant – Your Way Home/Field Based – London (Liverpool Street area)
Brakes is seeking a dynamic and driven Field Sales Consultant to thrive in a unique, neighbourhood-focused role as part of our "Your Way" initiative. This isn’t just a job – it’s a chance to build a local sales empire, control your own growth, and shape the future of an exciting new business model.
About the Role
This role is 100% about you – a Field Sales Consultant responsible for winning, expanding and maximising profit in your own dedicated 1-city-block territory (yes, just one square mile!). Here at Brakes, we’re not simply growing; we’re radically reinventing how we engage with customers in the foodservice sector – and you’ll be at the heart of it.
This is not an ordinary job – it’s a fresh, hybrid hybrid home/field-based role designed for ambitious sales professionals who thrive on autonomy, relationships and delivering results. No other business in our space offers this kind of model. If you’re seeking a career with real impact, freedom and progression, stop reading and apply now.
What You’ll Be Doing
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Own Your Square Mile: Be the sole guardian of sales success in your neighbourhood, spanning:
- Researching and identifying clients, opportunities, and untapped markets within that locality
- Building and nurturing deep, face-to-face relationships – selling, engaging, and understanding customer needs with exceptional consultative skills
- Onboarding new accounts while fostering loyalty with existing customers, ensuring smooth handover and ongoing long-term engagement
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Operations Alchemy:
- Driving profitable volume growth against personal targets
- Utilising Salesforce to track and manage customer activities, ensuring transparent reporting
- Staying ahead of competitors by proactively monitoring local competitors and independent suppliers – translating insights into better offerings for your customers
- Partnering with your assigned distribution team to streamline community-level logistics and create local-level operational agility
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- Dynamic & Democratised Sales:
- Delivering on-the-ground branding through face-to-face interactions, ensuring every client feels heard and valued
- Leveraging foodservice expertise (though prior food industry experience is not necessary)
- Developing a customer-driven mindset that ensures we provide not just solutions, but the most commercially effective ones
Ideal Candidate Profile
You’ll bring stellar energy with the following creds:
- Sales DNA – Proven track record of new business and customer relationship expansion (ideally from field sales or account management background)
- Commercial nous – Quick thinking, savvy with numbers, skilled at identifying efficiencies and negotiating wins
- Tech savvy – Fluent in Excel and Salesforce with analytical rigor
- Customers first – Passionate about building trust and long-term bonds over quick sales cycles
- Autonomous hustler – Flourishes when owning outcomes and tactically managing their own territory
- Passion for foodservice/FMCG – A plus, but problem critical to understanding the sector’s dynamics
You don’t just sell products: you see yourself as a trusted partner who grows businesses by growing theirs.
Why Join Brakes?
We’re not just charity suppliers or faceless corporations – we’re passionate, proactive, inclusive team players feeding 50% of those who eat out and travel in the UK today. Here’s what you’ll receive:
- Base Salary: £42,000
- Performance reward: Fantastic bonus, making this one of the most competitively motivating opportunities on offer
- Freedom: Fully home/field-based model with minimal commuting
- Flexibility: Company car or excellent car allowance (the choice is yours)
- Perks: Award-winning products at near-cost price, additional paid holiday, and unique wellness and enrichment benefits
- Career hoofboard: Having just 500+ sales professionals, this means unlimited progression paths within a company aligned to our ethos of growth and collaboration
- Unshakable diversity & inclusion: Values culture diversity—your background helps shape ours; our talent attracts your passion.
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Packed-Lunch Reflection: Our Culture
At Brakes, everyone belongs. You won’t need to conform to an existing culture – instead, you’ll define it. We’re unfiltered in celebrating individuality while playing to each other’s strengths.
- Diversity & Belonging: Proud to offer opportunities to everyone without preconceptions. The application or CV can’t cover the myriad of skills you bring
- Supportive Recruitment Network: When developing partnerships or growth plans with your local community-related roles for example—we adjust everything to make it right for our people.
- Thriving Mindsets: Colleague care is mandatory; connection is woven into all interactions—whether taking decisions together through collaboration, or providing support in tough times.
We work together to build trust across the food industry — because we do know, as a team of across the nation, you ensure your neighbourhoods trust and brings prosperity.
8,000 teams muster together like a recipe—ingenious elements blend to support you, all day and every day, as your own dedicated partners.
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