National Account Manager - Grocery
- Employer
- Michael Page Sales
- Location
- England, Buckinghamshire, High Wycombe
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 14 Mar 2019
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- Business Sector
- Non Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Sales
Job Details
Exciting opportunity for a JNAM/NAE/KAM to step up into a National Account Manager - Grocery role responsible for JBPs & P&L for Two of the Top 4.
Client Details
My client manufactures and markets one of the world's most popular foods of its kind with strong marketing positions in over 90 countries. My client is passionate about their culture with a focus on innovation and inspiration as they try to expand their brands and continue leading the market world-wide. Due to growth in the business they are now looking to add a National Account Manager - Grocery to the highly performing sales team.
UK head office is based in High Wycombe Buckinghamshire.
Description
National Account Manager - Grocery
- Responsible for the day to day management of several accounts and being the face of the company to your key contacts
- Achievement of high sales targets and delivery of company goals
- Develop and maintain relationships with customers to ensure long term success
- Attend business review and planning meetings with customers on a regular basis
- Be the link between customers and internal departments to ensure customer's requirements are met
- Identify key opportunities within the marketplace to develop the brands
- Secure annual business plans with key customers to drive profitable growth
- Analyse sales data and trends including EPOS and Nielsen to identify risks and opportunities to the business
- Work with Marketing departments to set and implement strategies for new products
- Work closely with Western Europe E-commerce manager to ensure opportunities are realised with your direct account base
- Liaise with ecommerce team of main grocery customers to include E-commerce on all business and innovation reviews
Profile
National Account Manager - Grocery
- Proven experience as a National Account Manager with a of minimum 5 years' within FMCG
- Track record of working with Grocery accounts
- Experience in negotiating and meeting customer requirements
- In depth understanding of sales performance metrics and analysis
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability present and influence key stakeholders at all levels
- Proactive and results driven
- Availability to travel as required
- Good knowledge of Excel particularly and Microsoft office applications in general (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint)
Job Offer
Competitive Basic Salary + Excellent Benefits
Company
Michael Page Sales UK is a leading professional recruitment consultancy covering permanent, interim and contract recruitment. We have UK wide coverage with ten offices located in London, Weybridge, Reading, Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester, St Albans, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow. The core markets we serve are Consumer, Business Services, Media, IT/Telco, Financial Services, Healthcare and Technical Sales, with a dedicated person or team in each location specialising in each of these sectors. The clients we work with are as diverse as the candidates we represent; from Blue Chips to SMEs, and Sales Execs to Sales Directors. Our Consultants are typically from relevant sales backgrounds giving first hand experience of the roles we recruit for. We pride ourselves on delivering unrivalled service levels to our candidates and our clients, our track record of success over the past 20 years means we stand out.
Within our Consumer Sales Division we have consultants within each of the 10 offices who dedicate themselves to this sector and no other. Our specialist capability is demonstrated further as we focus on sub sectors such as food, drink, household, foodservice, consumer electronics, apparel, health & beauty, consumer healthcare, pet and sports. Some of our key clients include Colgate, Beiersdorf, Dr Oetker, Johnson & Johnson, Matthew Clark, PZ Cussons, Kellogg’s, 2 Sisters, Samsung, Seven Seas, Twinings, Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, SC Johnson, Warburtons, InBev, Kettle Chips, Hallmark, Luxottica, McCain, Britvic, General Mills, and Molson Coors to name but a few!
Michael Page Sales UK is part of Michael Page International with operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. As well as looking for high quality candidates for our clients, we are also always looking for top talent to work for us
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