Grocery Retail Activator - London based

Job description

We’re looking for energetic and motivated individual to join us as Grocery/Retail Activators, representing Living Things in grocery stores. This is a practical, hands-on role where you’ll be out in the field every day, ensuring our brand is visible, stocked, and sold.

The Role:

To support our continued growth across grocery retail we're hiring a activator > based in Greater London to support our growth across the UK. This is a field-sales based role, and a full/clean/UK driving license is required.

Company Overview:

Introducing you to Living Things. We make all-natural, belly-loving soda's here in the UK and we're on a mission to make soda feel good again. We've built a belly-loving, low-sugar, high-fibre soda that is deliciously refreshing. What set us apart:

• Totally Natural
• Both Prebiotic and Probiotic
• Champion Taste
• Low sugar
• High fibre
• Free from sweeteners

Our range includes five delicious flavours (with more in the pipeline) and in just 24 months we've already built great traction with over 10,000 stockists including Tesco, Waitrose, ASDA, Morrisons, Wholefoods, Amazon, EAT17, Origin Coffee, SushiDog,and countless others.

About the role:

Living Things is continuing to grow at pace, with a particular focus on retail activations, as an Activator the role will entail: visiting our existing retailers, building store level relationships, placing POS, building displays, managing compliance and and strengthening our relationships to help get more cans into more hands.

More about the role:

• 10-12 store visits per day
• Influencing retailers to display product
• Fix any compliance issues or bookstock errors
• Work with store owners/managers to grow sales and visibility
• Check product availability and ensure Living Things is always on the shelf
• Build eye-catching displays and place point-of-sale materials
• Work with store owners/managers to grow sales and visibility
• Capture data on your tablet to track performance
• Spot opportunities and feedback insights to your manager
• sampling, on-site activations and customer engagement throughout your accounts (building brand awareness).
• Attend and participate in trade shows and events.
• Feedback competitor insights to the business.
• Manage daily and weekly performance and effectively communicate results to the business.
• Effectively maintain an up-to-date CRM.
• Continually develop your understanding of the functional soda and wider gut-health category.

What you will need:

As a start-up, we're a small but mighty team and we seek out new members of the crew based on personality and performance. We’d love to hear from you regardless of what boxes you may or may not “tick” in the below list.

• Valid UK driving licence (and is comfortable with driving a small van i.e. VW Transporter).
• Ideally you already have experience of working in a similar role in FMCG (nice to have)
• Territory specific, we're hiring for a TDM who is London based
• Confident & outgoing personality with brilliant interpersonal and influencing skills.
• We want a people person, a clear communicator and an awesome relationship builder.
• Comfortable cold-calling
• An ability to get stuck in & take ownership of your work. We will be giving you responsibility across a wide variety of areas.
• Some natural hustle and the ability to get stuff done.
• A confident and outgoing nature whilst being the face & voice of the brand in sales channels alongside our existing team.
• A genuine interest in growing a brand.
• You are comfortable using various data sources to pull your own category story together.

What you will get:

Salary: competitive salary

Bonus: rewarding performance related annual bonus

Great exposure to a scaling start-up, and a crash course in F&B Sales.

Hybrid work environment with office in Vauxhall. Flexible working hours.

Please send a copy of your CV and a little more info about yourself directly to us: ben@drinklivingthings.com

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Greater London

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

04-06-2026

Profession type

Retail

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English