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Junior Account Manager – Top 4 & Premium Retailers

Employer
Food Industry Associates
Location
North London
Salary
£28,000 to £35,000, Company Car, Bonus & Pension
Closing date
24 Feb 2016

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Business Sector
Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
Sales

Job Details

An exciting opportunity has arisen within one of the UK’s leading ambient food businesses. The business supplies a wide array of premium branded and private label ambient food products into the Retail Multiples, Premium High Street Retailers, Wholesale and Food service channels. Within the last 3 years the business has doubled in size and as a result they have become the category leaders in the areas they operate. Following the growth of their business and a number of new trading relationships, they are looking to appoint an ambitious Account Manager to build their presence within the retail channel

Reporting directly to the Head of Grocery you will be tasked with taking on a portfolio of national accounts including Asda, Morrisons, Ocado, Booths, Amazon and Selfridges. In addition to growing these accounts you will be tasked with identifying new customer relationships both in the UK and across Europe. Other areas of responsibility include attending tradeshows, setting up instore demonstration and identifying new NPD opportunities.

The successful candidate for this positon will either be operating at National Account Executive level or be a top performer in field sales. Specific product experience is not required; it is however essential that you operate within the FMCG sector. You will need to be a hungry, tenacious individual with the drive to significantly grow your account base as well as hunt for new business opportunities. This is a great opportunity to step into a National Account position with an ambitious and growing business.

The role is office based at their new offices in North London, the role requires frequent UK travel and sporadic travel to Europe.

If you would like further information on this position, please contact Bethany Kendrew directly on O: 0113 2195 704 M: 07538831940 or apply below.

Company

For over a decade now, Food Industry Associates Ltd have proven to be a recruiter of choice for ambitious SME food and beverage manufacturers across the UK.  We don't recruit for the big corporates by choice.  Instead, we choose to work with companies with personality, entrepreneurial flare (not process), looking to disrupt the market with cutting edge innovation to provide consumers with better, healthier choices.

Are you an early stage start-up struggling to find the right solution to help you gain your fist listings in a specific customer channel before you can raise the budget to employ somebody on a permanent basis?  Maybe you know you need to source a commercial leader but aren't 100% clear in what format, or how to adequately incentivise somebody from a much larger business to join your mission?  Come speak to us.

If you're a more established business looking to bring fresh talent on board to drive ambitious sales targets, source a creative innovator to help you drive in to new extended categories, or looking to strengthen in marketing / category terms, again, come speak to us.

We've a proven record in recruiting talent for an array of businesses, helping them source commercial talent to help them achieve their goals.  From early stage sales talent through to equity-incentivised leadership roles, we've proven time and time again to find the right people for our clients at the first attempt.  

How are we different to most of our competitors?  Unlike most, we don't have as diverse a portfolio of clients we work with.  However all those we do work with continuously come back to us whenever they next have another need.  In our opinion successful recruitment is achieved when two businesses truly 'partner' and collaborate together.  In our opinion the better we know you, the better we understand all the extra elements aside from simple skillset and experience to ensure the right 'fit' is identified at the first attempt.  In our opinion, this is recruitment, done properly.

Company info
Website
Telephone
0113 3572245
Location
Food Industry Associates Ltd
Airebank House
419 Kirkstall Road
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS4 2EZ
GB

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