Field Market Activator - Hertfordshire

hackajob is collaborating with Just Eat to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We're a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience.

Whether it's a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

We're looking for a driven Field Market Activator to join our UK Sales team. This is a permanent, field-based role predominantly covering Hertfordshire and key surrounding areas including Amersham, Beaconsfield, Marlow, Henley, High Wycombe, Aylesbury and Buckingham.

As the face of Just Eat on the ground, your mission is to secure high-value partnerships and drive immediate commercial impact. You will spend your days in the field, visiting priority restaurant and retail partners face-to-face, negotiating profitable terms, and setting them up for long-term growth on our platform.

Location: Hybrid – Field-based (Hertfordshire)
Reporting to: Regional Sales Manager

These are some of the key ingredients to the role:

• Drive Acquisition & Orders: Identify, negotiate with, and sign up high-priority partners to hit monthly acquisition and order volume targets, ensuring every new partner delivers clear value.
• Own the Launch Quality: Take full accountability for how partners look when they go live - ensuring high-quality setups including optimised descriptions, offers, imagery, and promotional bundles.
• Hyper-Focus on Early Trading: Monitor and optimise partner performance during their critical first 28 days on the platform to guarantee a successful launch and future success.
• Build Profitable Partnerships: Conduct face-to-face field visits to build deep, consultative relationships that drive mutual profitability for both the partner and Just Eat.
• Collaborate for Growth: Leverage local data and insights to help your regional team smash collective metrics and expand our customer footprint.

What will you bring to the table?

• Proven Sales Track Record: Previous experience in a field sales or account acquisition role, with a natural hunger to hit targets and deliver results consistently.
• Commercial Acumen: Strong negotiation skills with the ability to build mutually beneficial, profitable business cases face-to-face and close deals effectively.
• Relationship Excellence: Enthusiastic, resilient, and highly influential, with the ability to quickly build trust and rapport with partners on the high street.
• Self-Motivated & Results-Driven: Ability to work autonomously, manage your time effectively across a large territory, and prioritize high-impact activities.
• Planning & Organization: Strong organizational skills with attention to detail, ensuring every partner launch is set up for success from day one.
• Adaptability & Learning Agility: Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and eager to learn and refine your approach based on data and feedback.
• Full UK Driving Licence: Essential for regular field visits across your territory to meet partners face-to-face.

Benefits:

• Flexible hours & schedule (our working days are Monday to Friday)
• Collaborative team culture
• Clear career path & growth opportunities
• Branded Just Eat Takeaway car
• £81 monthly takeaway spend allowance
• 25 days holiday + birthday leave and bank holidays. Purchase or sell up to 5 days extra holiday
• Bonus Holidays or Cash after 5 and 10 years of service
• Enjoy up to 52 weeks of Maternity or Adoption Leave and up to 6 weeks paternity leave
• Comprehensive benefits package including private medical & dental insurance, employer pension contribution, and life assurance at 4x basic salary
• Volunteering leave, full sick pay, and well-being support programs
• Eye tests, discounts on top brands, and cycle-to-work scheme
• Diversity and inclusion initiatives & mentorship and wellness programs
• World-class training resources & international career opportunities

At JET, this is how we play

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Being the best at what we do isn't just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side.

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers' loyalty, again and again.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we're building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all em

ployees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

What else is cooking?

Want to know more about our JETers, culture or company? Have a look at our career site where you can find people's stories, blogs, podcasts and more JET morsels.

Are you ready to take your seat? Apply now!

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