Account Controller - grocery - multi-site, multi-category, with cross functional line management
- Employer
- Food Industry Associates
- Location
- Midlands based H/O with multi-site responsibility
- Salary
- £70,000 - £75,000 + bonus + car / allowance + executive benefits
- Closing date
- 19 Apr 2019
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Category Management, National Accounts, Sales
Job Details
Account Controller – Sainsbury’s, required for a category leading supplier of premium chilled / frozen ranges as both branded and private label offerings.
A recognised and sizeable multi-site operator, this business is recognised as a leading player when it comes to delivering innovative solutions to every major grocery retailer and working in collaboration with each to shape the future performance of the categories they operate within.
Following the conclusion of their annual succession planning – a core value of their business culture – they have identified the need to recruit a high-calibre and experienced individual to assume total accountability for their Sainsbury’s customer relationship.
This appointment will be a high-profile and business critical role within the company’s commercial structure, influencing and driving the performance of one of their most established customer relationships.
You will be responsible for the implementation of annual commercial and joint business plans and networking at senior customer contact levels up to and including Category Director, for the multi-category and sizeable £multi-million relationship.
Responsible for leading a cross functional team with direct reports across sales, category and innovation, the role requires experienced individuals with a demonstrable record of effective project management within fast-paced, preferably chilled manufacturing food and/or beverage environments.
The business has demonstrated impressive organic growth for several consecutive years largely through industry leading innovation and category process but is actively exploring acquisition targets during 2019 to further support their ambitious growth plans.
Ultimately this provides an ideal platform for ambitious individuals looking to secure a role within a business able to offer regular career progression opportunities to high-performers.
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.
- Website
- http://www.foodindustryassociates.com/
- Telephone
- 0113 3572245
- Location
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Food Industry Associates Ltd
Airebank House
419 Kirkstall Road
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS4 2EZ
GB
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