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National Account Controller

Employer
Refresco
Location
Bridgwater, Somerset
Salary
65 k per annum dependent on experience
Closing date
3 Jun 2017

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

National Account Controller

About the Role

This critical role for Refresco Beverages UK reports to the Commercial Director, and heads up designated retailer customer accounts including responsibility for turnover, volume and profitability and ensuring optimum performance. You will provide full on customer focus forging stronger business partner relationships between Refresco and your retail customers. 
You will need to be strategic and tactical in your approach delivering, but not limited to, the following:

- Responsible for delivering board approved budgeted annual volume and revenue for your retail customers;
- Implement key strategies for maintenance and growth of your customers;
- Responsible for the control and allocation of advertising and promotional budgets for branded sales;
- Responsible for short and long term strategic planning to achieve profitable growth in all soft drink categories for customers;
- Driving and coordinating the internal resource to deliver NPD and own label initiatives from concept to launch;
- Managing all Account projects involving customer initiatives;
- Liaise cross functionally and with the senior team at Refresco and your customers;
- Work proactively with the Refresco brands team to build and implement the annual plan effectively;
- Provide broad level communication links between Refresco and the varied contact network across the customer’s head office;
- Ensure customer demand is in line with the agreed forecast by drawing upon the relationship with the customer and the supply chain teams internally and externally to ensure that forecast accuracy is maintained at the agreed KPI levels;
- Instigate and lead project teams internally within Refresco and across the wider group to improve business performance, collaboration and results.

About You

Of course you are organised, innovative and analytical with a highly pro-active attitude helping you to identify opportunities for growth and improvement with your key account customers. It goes without saying that you’re an excellent people person with strong communication, influencing and relationship building skills. As a driven, conscientious and tenacious individual, you’ll have a real passion for making things happen and delivering quality on time. 

You will need the following experience:

- You are an accomplished National Account senior manager or manager with a proven track record of profitable and sustainable sales delivery and marketing exposure;
- You have at least five years sales experience in an FMCG blue chip food and drinks industry sector organisation which includes a demonstrable record of success with some of the top five grocery retailers, ideally with 'named' customers;
- Successful delivery of retailer own label NPD experience is essential;
- Strong commercial awareness and first class negotiating ability is essential;
- Positive can do approach, adept at conflict management whilst also being on the front foot to seek out and exploit business opportunities;
- Experience of working with and using Category Management to identify opportunities to support the sales process;
- Experience of a large-scale Food and Drink business and the associated processes e.g. forecast-driven just in time and vendor manage inventory - led production (Group T/O €2bn, Refresco Beverages UK turnover circa £300m)
- Experience of selling Brands and Private Label to named retail customers.

We prefer you to be based in the South West UK within easy reach of our Bridgwater (Somerset) offices but you can be based anywhere in the UK providing you can spend 2 to 3 days per week in Bridgwater. Relocation assistance is provided.
 

About Us

Our drinks on every table. That's our vision. So, yes, it's safe to say we're ambitious. We're thirsty for more, constantly looking to the future. To new products, new services, new markets, new customers. Here in the UK, we're well on track to produce one billion litres through our plant annually by 2018. Overseas? We already have 30 factories in 10 countries – and we're actively looking to expand our operation. 
Refresco is the leading European bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices for retailers and branded customers with production in Benelux, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, the UK, Poland and Finland. In 2015 the company realized full year volumes and revenue of circa 6.1 billion litres and circa EUR 2.0 billion, respectively. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from 100% fruit juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans and glass. Focused on innovation, Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its product and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities and market demand. Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and employs circa 4,100 staff.

Salary & Package

The salary for this role is circa £65 k per annum dependent on experience and achievements, plus company car, plus annual bonus and generous company pension scheme.

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