Acosta
Senior Director of Field Planning & Activation
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Senior Director of Field Planning & Activation
Role Overview Shape the future of Acosta Europe’s syndicated field operations in a thrilling role focused on strategy, planning, and execution. You’ll design, optimise, and evolve how three thousand syndicated field agents deploy across complex multi-client, multi-channel environments to drive impactful growth.
Key Details
- Salary: £90,000 (ございた る, depends on experience)
- Additional Benefits:
- £6,000 annual car allowance
- 15% Annual Bonus Opportunity
- Location: Stoke-on-Trent (Hybrid: 3 days in office, 2 days remote from Stoke or Woking)
- Contract: Permanent Full Time (37.5 hours per week)
Why This Role Matters You will lead strategic thinking on field execution, tackling dynamic, time-sensitive demands across FMCG, retail, convenience, and emerging channels. Your decisions will align capacity with client needs while ensuring operational scalability, growth, and agility.
The Opportunity
A high-impact leadership role where your foresight and decisions directly shape commercial outcomes. You will:
- Make tough but necessary trade-offs in resource prioritisation, capacity management, and critical investments.
- Steer operational excellence amid rapid shifts, ensuring consistent performance, accountability, and business growth.
- Create a future-proof model for field teams in a complex yet imaginative retail environment.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
Strategic Leadership
- Define the vision for field team planning, deployment, and operations across multi-faceted environments.
- Constantly assess and evolve Acosta’s operating model to meet scalability, efficiency, and commercial needs.
- Lead transformative change initiatives, driving insights-driven strategy for improved outcomes.
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Planning, Performance & Commercial Impact
- Own the planning framework for field activity, ensuring target alignment with maximum commercial return.
- Implement clear, actionable performance metrics, aligning operations with growth objectives.
- Collaborate closely with commercial/ client teams to balance strategy, prioritisation, and scalability.
Execution & Operational Disciplines
- Hold full accountability for delivery quality, standards, and consistency across groceries, convenience, wholesale, and LSLR (Licensed Sector).
- Harness surge capacity to meet heightened demand from clients and channel partners.
- Reinforce planning accuracy and execution discipline, using data to sharpen business outcomes.
Leadership & Capability
- Lead a high-impacting executive team, driving ownership and performance accountability.
- Identify and develop capabilities across planning and field teams, creating a scalable model for rapid response.
- Foster a culture of ownership and collaboration, centred around results-driven delivery.
About You
We seek a commercially astute, results-focused leader, fluent in complexity, decision-making, and transformation. You will:
- Have significant leadership experience in planning, operations, field strategy, or commercial roles, with direct accountability for scale.
- Strong commercial judgement, adept at weighing trade-offs between priority, investment, and resources.
- FMCG/retail exposure, with a track record of thriving in dynamic demand environments.
- Demonstrated success in improving performance through disciplined planning, execution rigor, and focused resource management.
- Ability to navigate matrixed organisational structures, influencing decision-makers and balancing competing stakes.
- Commitment to building high-performing teams, developing leadership pipelines, and embedding an ownership culture.
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Why Join Acosta Europe?
- Impact: Directly influence market-leading brands across fast-growing sectors like Convenience, Grocery, and Retail.
- Influence: Lead a high-impact strategic role, with deep operational involvement and broad commercial scope.
- Investment & Data: Join a company prioritising data-driven insights and capability-building to propel field execution forward.
- Culture: Collaborate in an ambitious, inclusive culture where ideas and leadership drive tangible business impact.
Commitment to Inclusion
Acosta Europe values diversity and actively invites applications from all backgrounds. We believe that diverse teams create better results and are dedicated to fostering a collaborative environment where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
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