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National Account Manager - Branded Food

Employer
Food Industry Associates
Location
Home-based role with 1 day per week in South-East office
Salary
Competitive basic salary + excellent benefits package
Closing date
14 Jul 2017

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

Job Details

Our client is a market leading importer and distributor of ambient, high quality food products. They represent a number of very well-known brands across a variety of product categories and also have a thriving own-label side to their business. As a family run business with very strong history and heritage they can offer a great culture built on values, teamwork and integrity. The company supply all customer channels across grocery, convenience, wholesale and food service. An opportunity has arisen for a National Account Manager to join the team managing some significant grocery retail accounts.

As National Account Manager reporting into an Account Controller you will undertake a varied, fast-paced role. You will manage a high profile customer base likely to include grocery and discount retailers. This person will be operating across a large portfolio of products across both branded and private-label. The role offers a mixture of account management and new business.

To be considered for this opportunity you must have previous national account management experience ideally having managed grocery or discount retailers in the food industry. You may currently be a National Account Manager looking to join a close-knit organisation where you are viewed as an integral member of the team. Our client is looking for someone ambitious and keen to progress their career therefore candidates looking to step up to this level will be considered. Prior experience to a distributor environment in the food industry would further strengthen your application. The role is home-based offering a great level of trust and autonomy.

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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