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National Account Manager - Branded Chilled Foods - Foodservice/Wholesale x2 roles

Employer
Food Industry Associates
Location
Homeworking - 1 day per week in South-East Head Office
Salary
Competitive basic salary + good benefits package
Closing date
20 May 2017

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

Job Details

An opportunity has arisen with a global dairy company that can boast a market leading brand across their prospective category. As one of the UK’s most recognised and successful food businesses’, our client’s well-documented success over recent years has helped establish them as a considerable player in the market. They have exceptional growth plans and are looking to double UK turnover over the next 2 years. To support ambitious growth plans across the business two new opportunities have arisen in National Accounts.

One role is selling into Foodservice and Foodservice End Users, it’s likely this will include Brakes and Bidvest both viewed as crucial customers to the business. This role offers a unique opportunity to grow and shape the Foodservice channel, it can offer future progression to oversee this area of the business. You will also get the chance to sell a market leading brand along with a new internationally recognised brand being launched in the UK market.

The second role will oversee the wholesale cash & carry area of the business. You will deal with a varied customer base including buying groups and discounters. Both roles offer huge autonomy and the chance to play in integral part in shaping the future.

This opportunity is ideally suited to National Account Executives or Junior National Account Manager’s wanting to progress their career in the food industry to the next level. You may also be a National Account Manager looking for progression in a global business that can offer a great career path. Foodservice or Wholesale customer experience is highly beneficial. It’s essential this person is operating in the food industry, ideally in a branded environment. You must be a good relationship builder, strong negotiator and ambitious.

Company

For over a decade now, Food Industry Associates Ltd have proven to be a recruiter of choice for ambitious SME food and beverage manufacturers across the UK.  We don't recruit for the big corporates by choice.  Instead, we choose to work with companies with personality, entrepreneurial flare (not process), looking to disrupt the market with cutting edge innovation to provide consumers with better, healthier choices.

Are you an early stage start-up struggling to find the right solution to help you gain your fist listings in a specific customer channel before you can raise the budget to employ somebody on a permanent basis?  Maybe you know you need to source a commercial leader but aren't 100% clear in what format, or how to adequately incentivise somebody from a much larger business to join your mission?  Come speak to us.

If you're a more established business looking to bring fresh talent on board to drive ambitious sales targets, source a creative innovator to help you drive in to new extended categories, or looking to strengthen in marketing / category terms, again, come speak to us.

We've a proven record in recruiting talent for an array of businesses, helping them source commercial talent to help them achieve their goals.  From early stage sales talent through to equity-incentivised leadership roles, we've proven time and time again to find the right people for our clients at the first attempt.  

How are we different to most of our competitors?  Unlike most, we don't have as diverse a portfolio of clients we work with.  However all those we do work with continuously come back to us whenever they next have another need.  In our opinion successful recruitment is achieved when two businesses truly 'partner' and collaborate together.  In our opinion the better we know you, the better we understand all the extra elements aside from simple skillset and experience to ensure the right 'fit' is identified at the first attempt.  In our opinion, this is recruitment, done properly.

Company info
Website
Telephone
0113 3572245
Location
Food Industry Associates Ltd
Airebank House
419 Kirkstall Road
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS4 2EZ
GB

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