Merchandising, POS Merchandising, Sales, Field Sales
The challenge
CPM Netherlands is a PepsiCo partner since the beginning of October 2018 and is responsible for the field services in Retail en Away from home. CPM provided two teams with a total number of 23 Sales Representatives. The business is split in to two areas: Fixed and Flex. On a dedicated base, our Fixed team lays there focus on perfect shelving and increasing sales through the deployment of local promotions. With our CPM Flex team we give PepsiCo access to extra capacity in a high flexible way.
Our Solution
We changed the current recruitment process of PepsiCo. With a pro-active approach in which we start recruiting new talent before vacancy's appear, we have been able to fill vacancies quickly. We introduced speed dates as a new effective way to interview candidates.
We have set-up a solid back office support team that provides al necessary support to the people in the field (For example; HR activities and Fleet management) and who are also responsible for the client service to PepsiCo.
We initiated multiple innovative efficiency initiatives in order to create savings for PepsiCo in time and money.
Results
Always enough capacity and working with the best people
A transparent, efficient and fun recruitment process
Happy people in the field because they are enabled with the right tools to do their work
Delivering efficiency's and savings. Increasing the ROI.
Merchandising, POS Merchandising, Sales, Field Sales
The challenge
Innocent contacted CPM in order to help them to disrupt the smoothie market by the use of our field sales and marketing expertise. Starting a test in 2015 visiting 60 franchise Albert Heijn supermarkets we quickly build a success story. Now our POS merchandising team consists of 4 junior representatives, part-time field coach and 1 account executive supporting the team from the inside organisation.
Our Solution
After advising Innocent how to approach the market and testing we knew exactly what success would look like. We created a path and plan winning at other supermarket retails and now visit the top 5 formulas in the Netherland. We build trust and secure distribution, create more brand visibility by e.g. placing POS materials and on occasion coolers to support promotions or second placement at high traffic locations in-store. By incentivising the retailers it helps to build more trust, fun and support whilst we’re not visiting the stores. The team are still breaking sales records every day and the success of Innocent in retail supermarkets is a result of optimising the shelf space and ensuring the product is fully visible in-store.
Results
With our contribution to their sales strategy, Innocent has reached the highest market share they have ever had and they keep breaking sales records on a weekly base.
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