National Account Manager - Personal Care

Our client is one of Europe’s leading chemical businesses, with a turnover in excess of £3 billion. The company supplies an extensive range of high quality chemicals and ingredients to leading customers in the personal care, household and food manufacturing sectors. With a solid reputation for innovation, producted development and through significant capital investment the business continues to show strong growth in its core markets both in the UK and wider International markets.

The Role

The company is now seeking to appoint a National Account Manager to manage and grow a portfolio of major customers, specifically in the Business to Business Manufacturing sector within hygiene manufacturing and the personal care industry within the Irish market. The posting will be technical, solution based selling, providing customers with ingredients and working with them to develop products to meet their specific needs.

As National Account Manager you will be tasked with developing sales and profit within key strategic accounts; you will be building and developing relationships within the existing customer base as well as continuously seeking new business opportunities and gaps in the market.

You will be managing complex relationships; connecting the right people within the business to the right people within the customer is seen as an essential skill. Establishing and uncover opportunities using your knowledge of both products and your customer base are an integral part of the role, in order to develop long term relationships and sustainable growth.  You will be providing in-depth product knowledge and working with the NPD teams in order to provide product solutions to challenges customers may face.

The Candidate

• You should have relevant B2B sales experience at a National Account level.
• You should have excellent communication and IT skills.
• You should be a strong relationship builder with the ability to influence people at all levels.
• A qualification in Chemistry, Food Technology, or similar, would greatly support your application.

Our client are market leaders and invest heavily in the training and development of their employees offering strong progression routes internally; they believe in rewarding personal performance as well as building and developing a strong team working culture. This role is offering the successful candidate strong career development as well as a competitive salary and package benefits to go along side this.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join one of the most influential and progressive businesses with the food ingredients sector. Please in the first instance send your full and up to date CV with full salary details to jonathan@hudsonjames.co.uk