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National Account Manager – Food Service

Employer
Ashwood Executive Search International
Location
Midlands
Salary
£30,000 - £35,000 + Car (or allowance) + 15% bonus + Benefits
Closing date
29 May 2016

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

Job Details

A highly rewarding career with one of the UK’s largest blue chip FMCG clients as a National Account Manager – Food Service awaits a motivated and creative individual looking for an exciting new challenge.

Working with iconic brands, this pivotal role offers an excellent opportunity for the successful candidate to make a huge impact on our client’s future by helping manage and develop the business, as well as offering significant career development, excellent training and the chance to broaden your sales and marketing experience.

This vital role is perfectly suited to a dynamic individual with outstanding commercial acumen and relationship-building skills, who will support the Business Account Managers, manage the Food Service Wholesale sector and successfully deliver on the budgeted targets. 

You will achieve this by negotiating and agreeing a sales plan with your key accounts and by driving the accuracy and delivery of monthly sales forecasts. You will be given the chance to make your mark by successfully negotiating and delivering promotional programmes and ensuring they are communicated, forecasted, activated and evaluated in a timely manner, as well as effectively executing brand plans and new product development launch plans.

You will also be given the chance to demonstrate your impressive communication and networking skills to manage, build and develop both internal and external key relationships.

So, who are we looking for?

To secure this rewarding position, you must have a proven track record of excellent commercial awareness and innovative thinking, plus strong experience of successful fact-based selling. You must also boast outstanding relationship-building, interpersonal and communication skills, plus be comfortable working cross functionally at all levels. Finally, a collaborative team-based approach is also a must.

So, if you’re an exceptional performer looking for that career-enhancing next role, make sure you don’t miss out by emailing your CV to our consultants at Ashwood, quoting reference number: 2333.

Company

At Ashwood Executive Search International we specialise in recruiting globally, from middle management positions to £six-figure executive assignments. Working primarily with FMCG organisations our clients range from high profile blue-chip companies to smaller niche and developing businesses. Our aim is to be viewed by clients as a world-class provider of the most talented people, while providing candidates with the very best advice, mentoring and coaching services to further their careers.

We have established an outstanding track-record providing Sales, Marketing, Category, Consumer Innovation, Technical, Manufacturing, HR and Supply Chain professionals. With a reputation for achieving excellent results, both for our clients and candidates, we strongly believe we can help you with your requirements. If you are a candidate this means we will work with you to find the ideal role to match your talents and aspirations. If you are a business it means we will apply our expertise and knowledge to source the most talented and culturally relevant people for your organisation.

Ashwood continues to grow and develop as we apply our unique methods and style of resourcing. With UK teams in Bracknell and London and operations in New York and Johannesburg, we provide clients with extensive worldwide coverage that is designed to deliver the top talent for their business.

Charity Partnership - Ashwood Executive Search International​ and Farm Africa 

Ashwood Executive Search International are pleased to announce that we will be extending our support of the charity Farm Africa for another year.

Our world is one of global connections and as a key player in the food industry, Ashwood is determined to play our part in ending one of the biggest challenges facing the world today; hunger. We are outraged that 1 in 8 people go to bed hungry every night and are determined to help create a different future for these 1 billion people.

Company info
Website
Telephone
+44 (0) 1344 206262
Location
Index House
Ascot
Berkshire
SL5 7ET
GB

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