Group Retail Director

Basic Salary Circa: £65,000 + Bonus + Quality Car + 23 Days Holiday + Pension Scheme + Life Assurance 

My client is a leading packaging business, supplying flexible packaging into the Food, Beverage and Pharmaceutical markets. Due to their continued growth they are recruiting a Group Retail Director for the UK. The business has a turnover in excess of €280m they have numerous sites and ambitious expansion plans, with a strong product portfolio, motivated sales teams and well invested manufacturing facilities across the businesses. The organisation is now perfectly poised to move to the next level of growth. The company has a very impressive customer base and partnerships across Europe including; Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Asda, Morrison’s, Waitrose and Coca Cola.

The Role:

• Reporting to the CEO you will be responsible for developing the brand within the multiple grocers, initially within the UK but with a view of expanding into Europe.
• The role is a stand-alone role that will involve interfacing heavily with the Sales Directors and Commercials Managers at each of the sites.
• The business is constantly investing and prides itself on the NPD projects completed both in-house and on behalf of their clients.
• Pivotal to the role will be to develop a strategy to offer the entire product offering and be in tune with new development projects from a packaging point of view within the retail sector.
• The role will involve keeping abreast within the market on industry regulation, trends and generally where the retailers are moving in terms of their packaging needs.
• This role offers a genuine progression opportunity and will grow as the business expands it is therefore important to have the gravitas and drive to lead a team and work within a matrix structure.

The Requirements:

• Essentially, you will have developed a contact network within the key retail customers in the major food packaging markets.

• The successful candidate will act as a conduit between the retailers and packers to ensure the relationships are maintained at both sides of the sale channel, i.e. first tier suppliers into the retailers and vice versa.

• The successful candidate will bring the group companies together to ensure that relationships developed by one company with the retailers and key accounts are fully exploited and supported by the other group companies.

• You will be commercially focussed, with strong presentation skills and the ability to operate at senior level with a blue-chip customer base.

• As well as expanding existing customer relationships, you will be expected focus on new business acquisition, aiming to develop contacts within the UK and Ireland retail markets.

The group is poised for further growth and are looking for a high-calibre forward thinking individual to take the business forward

If you think that you have the correct skill-set for this role and want to join a dynamic company who value their employees and invest in their future, please send your CV and up to date package details to; helen@vitaeselection.com or call; 0113 394 4950 for an initial confidential conversation