Britvic
INVESTING IN A GREAT CAREERS
Britvic is making sure that it remains the ideal career destination for talented, ambitious, highly motivated individuals. “We’re committed to career development,” explains Britvic’s recruitment business partner Sam Horsefield, “we have facilitated 71 development moves within customer management over last 18 months and target ourselves on 66% of all roles to be filled internally. We actively encourage employees to take a proactive approach to their career development with career tools like our “Managing My Career” website.
“The site contains ideas, advice and inspiration to help employees create a roadmap and ownership of their own development agenda. We also train our line managers so that they can provide coaching to help employees reach their potential.”
ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE
Britvic has also developed a Customer Management Academy to provide:
● Continuous learning and developing to keep Britvic ahead of the competition
● The freshest thinking and execution to enable Britvic to win
● Embedding learning through on the job coaching and developing the Britvic Way
● Methods and technology that allow learning on the go
● A fresh approach to career development.
Horsefield continues: “Our goal is to have the most talented sales force. To be successful you need acute customer focus, critical thinking, commercial acumen and the ability to build powerful customer relationships.”
BRITVIC BENEFITS
Britvic rewards its employees well for contributing to the company’s success:
● Competitive base salaries
● Rewarding outstanding performance
● Bonuses and incentive schemes
Rewards are regularly reviewed to ensure Britivic offers competitive packages. The company’s benefits include a pension scheme, the Britvic Share Incentive Plan, company cars and flexible benefits that allow employees to choose from a menu of benefits such as extra holidays, private healthcare, childcare vouchers etc.
Offering these kind of great benefits means competition for vacancies is fierce. Horsefield continues: “In 2009 we had over 16,000 applications, more than double 2008, probably due to market conditions and more people being on the market. “Therefore it is very important to take time to make sure the CV really sells the individual and doesn’t appear too generic.
“Often people will very comprehensively list their responsibilities in role, which doesn’t differentiate the candidate from the other individuals with the same job title! What they must do is clearly list all of their achievements for the roles they have been employed in, and tell us how they will bring fresh ideas and contribute to an outstanding sales team.”
COMPANY:
Britvic
Britvic House
Broomfield Road
Chelmsford, CM1 1TU
01245 261 871
www.britvic.com
