Senior National Account Manager (m/f)

Want to work with global brands and unlock profitable growth, in the most advanced sports nutrition market in Europe?

The Active Nutrition International, founded by Post Holdings Inc., contains a wide portfolio of global sports nutrition brands for lifestyle, endurance, fitness and performance.

The International Headquarters is based in Munich, Germany. 

PowerBar and Dymatize are our leading brands in the UK. We constantly strive to deliver the most innovative and functional products to provide athletes with the best sports nutrition possible, always based on the latest scientific research.

Our products are proven and are trusted by world-class professionals, ambitious amateur athletes and active consumers for their daily fuelling needs.

To support our expanding business we are currently looking for an experienced:  

Senior National Account Manager (m/f)

As a Senior National Account Manager with the Active Nutrition International Group, you will be tasked with growing profitable sales in the exciting and highly popular sports nutrition category.

You will be responsible for winning distribution with new customers and achieving growth for PowerBar in the Convenience, Forecourt and Grocery Channel’s.

You will play an important role within the UK Team working closely with the Country Manager and Category Manger to unlock new customer growth.

This role will allow you to work autonomously and you will be able to leave your footprint without the challenges of multiple hierarchy layers. 

The role of Senior National Account Manager will involve the following:

• Responsible for winning business with new customers across Convenience, Forecourts and Grocery Channels
• Responsible for managing a strategic customer in the UK for Active Nutrition International
• Responsible for delivering profitable sales growth & growing market share in the Sports Nutrition Category across 'on the go' and 'take home' channel
• Experienced in opening new accounts, joint business planning, commercial and category-led proposition selling and delivering in-store execution (on and off shelf) with excellence
• Competent to work autonomously and effective decision maker in solving commercial problems
• Competent with managing and growing a range of customers
• Strong and proven negotiator to lock in profitable joint business plans with customers.
• Manage and deliver the business plan for each customer across Base, Promotion, Event and Terms
• Manage and deliver monthly planning process and forecasts for each customers
• Work closely with Category Manager and Country Manager to implement effective 'go to market' strategy to win new business
• Confident communicator with the ability to deliver detailed and regular feedback to the wider business on the market place
• Opportunity to build team, if successful in role

The ideal candidate would have to following: 

• Must have Entrepreneurial Spirit on winning new business and delivering growth
• Passion for sales and achieving Win-Win objectives
• Tenacious to deliver commercial results
• Driven to overcome customer’s objections
• Responds to challenge with pace and accuracy
• Proactive to find solutions
• Experienced in tailoring profitable commercial propositions in-line with Shopper, Consumer and Customer Objectives
• Experienced National Account Manager with UK Convenience and Grocery Retailers
• Passion for Sports and healthy living

Along with a competitive salary and benefits we also offer the chance to flex and grow your skills and take on new challenges.

Join our team! 

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