Key Account Manager - Northern Region

Key Account Manager

Leeds/Manchester/Liverpool/Sheffield/Newcastle/Bradford/Nottingham/Preston/Blackburn/Lancaster

• £33,000 - £38,000 Basic Salary
• 10% Bonus
• Car/Car Allowance
• Pension
• Private Health Insurance
• Excellent Development Opportunities

About the Role:

A fantastic Key Account Manager role for this international business! This is a great opportunity to step up from a field sales role and make your first steps into national accounts.

• You’ll be responsible for developing joint business plans with your accounts in order to develop business growth.
• Work closely with all of your internal key stakeholders in Marketing, Customer Marketing and Supply Chain to ensure the smooth running of your plans.
• You will have responsibility for your own budgets and P&L and will be constantly auditing your own performance against both company and personal targets.
• Responsibility for controlling budgets and your own promotional targets and to work towards the commercial plan with your team and mentors.
• Working with your buyers to achieve excellent customer working relationships and to maximise opportunities by creating cross functional relationships within this customers.
• Constantly looking for additional opportunities, being smart to ad-hoc promotions.
• Keeping up to date with implementation of agreed promotions and marketing.

About You:

• You’ll be able to demonstrate strong commerciality and/or some previous experience of working with buyers at a local or national level.
• Understanding of how joint business planning works alongside strong category management.
• Proven track record in achieving success in negotiations within your current business.
• Have an understanding of how brand marketing, category management and supply chain will all impact on your role.
• Be able to think strategically with strong planning and forecasting.
• Some understanding of managing your own budgets and P&L.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Commercially and analytically aware, able to make sound commercial decisions based on data evaluation.

About Us: 

PIE Recruitment gets straight to the point - we don't just find great individuals - we build great teams. With specialist delivery across the Sales & Marketing spectrum we offer insight and expertise into the Consumer, Retail, Technology, Automotive and Business to Business Markets. 

Founded by an experienced team with a passion for customer experience and effective delivery we provide the full range of recruitment solutions - contingent, retained search, advertised selection, talent pooling and discrete, informative market mapping. 

Contact us for more information on 01494 590404 / info@pie-recruitment.com