At Mars, our Senior National Account Managers deliver profitable sales and category growth with a key grocery customer. If you work as a NAM in FMCG will know this already. What you may not know is that at Mars Petcare we have a fantastic portfolio of brands, a healthy pipeline of NPD and all the tools you need to achieve this.

Of course you will need to be able to build strong, mutual relationships with the customer, have strengths in negotiation, influencing and the strategic agility to develop a long-term strategy. This is a given. At Mars our Senior National Account Managers need exceptional leadership skills with the ability to motivate and align a cross functional team of talented individuals behind an inspiring purpose and clear strategy for the customer.

This Senior National Account Manager role is integral to our succession to Channel and Customer Director roles, we are therefore looking for people with the potential and desire to progress within our business. At Mars we’ve always been well known for our ability to develop talent, and we will provide you with the tools, support, coaching and development needed to realise your career ambitions.

Naturally we have some minimum requirements, we’ll come onto these later. As you get to know more about Mars you will hear how important our Five Principles are – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom. In addition to this we have a set of behaviours in sales that underpin our culture – entrepreneurial, decisive and agile. In practice this means we recruit people who act like an owner, are comfortable taking calculated risks and who not only thrive in an environment of change but are the change agents of our business, in addition as you will need;

• To be degree educated (or equivalent)
• The skills to manage budget and/or revenue optimisation to deliver ROI
• Experience of deploying the fundamentals of category leadership to drive growth

You may think we ask for a lot. We do. So, what’s in it for me you might think? You’ll be working with a like-minded, talented group of associates who want to win and have fun along the way. We’ve talked about development and career progression, that’s key. Then there’s remuneration, hopefully you’ll agree our salary package is competitive and reflective of the calibre we need in this Senior National Account Manager role. The list goes on so why not visit our website to find out more about what life is like on Mars.

Mars Petcare is part of Mars inc, a family-owned company with worldwide annual sales of over £33billion. Since 1932 we’ve been producing iconic brands in the UK, including Pedigree, Whiskas and Cesar, in addition to other globally admired products such as Galaxy, Uncle Ben’s and Dolmio. This role is field based but there will be a requirement to be in Waltham one or two days a week. Waltham is close to Melton Mowbray and just a 40-minute commute from Leicester, Nottingham or Newark.

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