National Account Manager - Travel | Branded Food

Our client is home to some of the most iconic food brands recognised around the globe and found in most homes around the UK. Every product under our client’s portfolio of brands stands for and represents high quality. With breadth of their product portfolio which is truly impressive, It’s a place you’ll be given the freedom to make your mark offering the broadest and one of the most innovative lines of products across the grocery channel. With a track record of constantly developing their employee’s careers they are always looking for talented, passionate individuals to join their success.

What the job entails.
As the successful National Account Manager you will be responsible for the joint customer business planning, incorporating promotional plan, listing & distribution of NPD, securing shelf space in line with market share and/or category objectives. You will manage the a variety of accounts within their impulse business unit, including Travel Retail and High Street accounts, whilst developing and maintaining effective customer relationships at all levels. You will also be expected to pro-actively track performance of your accounts understanding the key drivers of the performance and working closely with your Controller and the cross functional team to implement corrective action to deliver against the P&L target and strategic plan.

This is a very autonomous role which provides the opportunity to develop your career across various accounts and brands, with genuine progression on offer.

The successful National Account Manager will have:
• Current experience in one of the following roles: Customer Business Manager, National Account Manager, Customer Account Manager, Senior National Account Manager, Business Operations Manager, Commercial Channel Manager, Commercial Strategy Manager or equivalent.
• Experience within a Branded/Blue Chip FMCG organisation in a National Account Management role with either experience within, Grocery, Impulse, Convenience or Discounters.
• A tenacious and entrepreneurial approach in the role is key to building and sustaining new long term relationships.
• Financial numeracy to be able to build strategically sound, financially robust proposals that exploit opportunities.
• Good understanding and insight into Category Management principles
• Preferably be degree educated or equivalent

Our client is looking to pay a competitive salary, plus a strong benefits package.

If you believe in your ability and wish to develop your career please contact Chloe Easton on 07891 248 124  or send your CV to talent@fmcgexecutive.com.