Position Snapshot

Nestlé Purina
Vet Sales Planning Executive – 15 hours per week
12 month FTC
Gatwick
Salary c.£25,000 pro rata depending upon experience, plus potential bonus + fantastic benefits 

This is a part time permanent opportunity, but we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs so please speak to us during the recruitment process to understand what this could look like for you. 

Position Summary

At Nestlé PURINA Pet Care, we're passionately committed to helping pets enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives because we're pet owners too.  As a world leading company in pet care and nutrition, Nestlé PURINA has been helping pets live healthy, happy lives for over 85 years. We are proud to produce some of the UK’s best loved brands including FELIX®, WINALOT®, GO-CAT®, BAKERS® and PURINA ONE & GOURMET, trusted and bought by millions of pet owners. We believe that pets and people are better together which is why our employees can bring their dogs to work at our Gatwick and Sudbury sites.
 

Being a Vet Sales Planning Executive at Nestlé is about being passionate about sales, being proactive, efficient, highly analytical and providing pivotal support to the Nestlé Purina Sales Team. 
 

The Vet Sales Planning Executive plays a key role within the Sales Organisation and is responsible for working closely with the Vet Key Account Manager to deliver through our business planning processes, accuracy and timeliness in our Customer plans both internally and externally. 
 

A day in the life of a Vet Sales Planning Executive

As Vet Sales Planning Executive, you will be responsible for the effective and compliant management of the internal forecasting, reporting, price management and customer administration.
 

Key responsibilities will include:  

• The set-up and maintenance of planning information in our Customer Plans internally, to ensure accuracy against finance and business reporting KPIs 
• Providing internal reporting and insight to support the monthly business planning process in order to give the business the necessary visibility and understanding of the latest performance and position of the customer plan
• Supporting Vet Key Account Manager with forecasting, reporting, tracking & administration relating to IVC & Vet Partners, Vet Wholesalers and Charity Partners and support PAH AD on V4P
• Supporting Vet KAM with monthly internal business cycle with corresponding attendance at MSR, roadshow etc, including IVC DF meetings
• Calculating and managing Rebate payments for customers
• Ensuring all NPD is launched successfully: wholesalers have completed new line forms within required timeframes and manage wholesaler stocking at launch.  

What will make you successful

Experience of working in a commercial environment in a head office or field sales role is critical. You will work as part of a fast-moving team managing customer plans where accuracy and attention to detail are key to ensure a right first-time result.  You will be motivated to be part of a team, build great relationships within the team and with stakeholders, be open to how we can continuously improve as a team, and be the best! 

Other key skills:

• Veterinary channel experience beneficial
• Forecasting experience would be beneficial
• A proactive attitude and a self-starter 
• Naturally curious, it is crucial that you be able to take the initiative when faced with any obstacle to solve problems and barriers
• Demonstrable commercial/financial acumen 
• Highly proficient in Excel and comfortable using other Microsoft Office programs - IT literate 
• Organised & adept at planning & prioritising workloads Makes good use of insightful information and is naturally analytical

What you need to know

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday pro rata plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

The closing date for this role is 25/03/2022.

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.
 

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect – for our employees, our customers and our consumers.  That’s why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process.  Be yourself, everyone else is taken!

Right to work in the UK 

In accordance with Home Office guidance successful candidates will be required to evidence their right to work in the UK before commencement of employment.  We have assessed this role and do not consider that we would be able to sponsor a successful candidate under the Skilled Worker route as the role does not meet the relevant Home Office criteria; the successful candidate therefore must be able to demonstrate their own right to work during the recruitment process without Nestlé sponsorship.