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National Account Controller - Chilled

Employer
Ashwood Executive Search International
Location
South East England
Salary
£70,000 - £85,000 + Car + 25% Bonus + Benefits
Closing date
13 Feb 2017

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

Job Details

Fantastic rare opportunity for a high achieving Controller looking for a chance to develop and manage a team with a major manufacturer in the FMCG chilled food sector. Substantial P&L and high profile, successful category leading brands. You must be intelligent and ambitious with strong negotiation and persuasion skills. You will be a strong, natural leader, able to coach, mentor and inspire your team.

You’ll be working for a major FMCG Food manufacturer, who have a host of category leading household brands and a substantial, highly successful own label division. As a business they pride themselves on giving their people the autonomy to make decisions and to get results, as well as the personal development support and training.

You will:

  • Deliver and maximise the budgeted profitability with Tesco and Discounters
  • Accountable for the performance of a customer management team
  • Prioritise, manage and allocate budgets alongside the Senior Commercial Director
  • Drive excellence in customer business planning and JBP delivery
  • Work closely with Category – understand Consumer Insights
  • Drive accuracy and delivery of monthly sales forecasts.
  • Manage, develop and coach 3 direct reports

You must have:

  • A degree or equivalent
  • Strong commercial acumen
  • Excellent Planning, Communication & Organisation
  • Experience of succesfully managing a team
  • Strong critical thinking and judgement
  • Excellent JBP experience
  • Strong experience within FCMG manufacturing, preferably food and ideally Own Label and Branded
  • First class interpersonal and negotiating skills
  • Strong presenting and excellent networking ability

You must be an experienced and dynamic sales leader with a proven progressive career profile. What is absolutely essential is that you have the can-do attitude necessary to deliver top results, coupled with the ambition and desire to progress your career whilst enabling your team to flourish.

Interested? Then email your CV to our consultants at Ashwood Associates quoting reference 2406

Whilst we would like to respond to all the applicants, regrettably we are unable to do so due to the high volumes we receive. If you've not heard from us within 7 days, unfortunately on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

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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