Business Account Manager

Atherstone
Competitive
14 Jun 2017
14 Jul 2017
greencore/TP/194/403
Ms Katy Cross
Sales
Food & Drink
Full Time
Permanent

Do you have great business understanding, can deliver sustainable results and are looking for your next challenge? 

We’ve got an exciting opportunity for a Business Manager to join our team based at Atherstone. Your role will be to develop and deliver sustained profitable growth for a specific customer base.

Main responsibilities

As Business Manager a key element of this role will be to create and fulfil customer specific account plans to grow sales in line with company strategy and targets.  You will formulate and implement promotional plans, in line with sales forecasts, to contribute to the delivery of strategic goals.

Maintaining close working relationship with key customers, you will build market and competitor knowledge to identify and pro-actively satisfy their requirements for development of potential new business opportunities.

The Business Manager will participate in process development working closely with the customer to create mutually beneficial solutions.

You will provide information and insight to your customer and the production team to promote effective delivery of current customer requirements in addition to also considering potential future developments.

Ideal candidate

Of graduate calibre, you will have strong business acumen and have a background of working in a similar environment.  Experience within an FMCG environment is preferred and a basic understanding of Category Management would be useful.

Not only will you be working for one of the country’s leading food manufacturers you’ll also get to work for a company that really does put people at the core. 

About the company

 

Greencore Group plc is a fast growing, international convenience food leader. Headquartered in Ireland, Greencore has operations in the UK and the US serving major retailers and brands in both markets.

It is a leading manufacturer of convenience food products to grocery retailers in the UK and a leading manufacturer of sandwiches, meals kits and salads to CPG, convenience retail and foodservice outlets in the US.

Greencore has a proforma Group revenue of £2.3bn and operates out of 50 locations in the UK, the US and Ireland.

 

Site Information

The Atherstone site sits within the Food To Go and produces Sandwiches and wraps for leading retailers. The site employs 600+ people and has been an established part of the local community for a number of years.