Wholesale C&C Account Manager
- Employer
- Michael Page Sales
- Location
- England, London, South West London
- Salary
- £28000 - £30000 per annum
- Closing date
- 5 Oct 2017
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Sales
Job Details
Exciting opportunity to join a fast growing energy drink brand, offering hands on experience and great progression opportunities to grow and develop your career alongside the company.
Client Details
This is an exciting opportunity for someone to take ownership over a business area with an entrepreneurial energy drink brand. An ambitious company, they are aiming to take the UK market by storm.
With sports sponsorship already in place there are a lot of forthcoming events to grow the organisation rapidly. A hands on opportunity to really take control, the sky is the limit for driven individuals to make a difference.
As a relatively young and small company, future opportunities are guaranteed for successful candidates with a chance to become part of a rapidly expanding company.
Description
The Wholesale C&C Account Manager will be reporting directly to the National Account Manager, and shall be tasked with the ongoing management of various existing and new wholesale accounts, with a focus to develop new business. Your key objective will be to grow new distribution whilst building relationships within the existing account base with the territory to help contribute towards yearly volume targets.
You will be responsible for the implementation of the GB wholesaler promotional strategy drive distribution and maintain profitability through the channel. You will help gain and grow the brand within wholesaler/RTM's by implementing activities such as trade shows to drive growth.
Through building and managing regional wholesale groups and supporting the NAM with any national wholesale activation. The role will require you to dynamically seeking out new opportunities and effectively establish relationships with key stakeholders.
The aim of the role is to drive growth with the aim of training and developing other members of staff alongside the business, so is a great opportunity for those seeking people management skills
Profile
The successful Wholesale C&C Account Manager will be:
- Motivated, committed and enthusiastic with a strong desire to contribute to a growing brand.
- Skilled in collaborating tasks across various departments within the business to deliver against required objectives.
- Target driven with a desire to continually push KPI's.
- Comfortable managing a wide range of accounts with ability to develop strong commercial relationships.
- Enthusiastic to chase new business.
- Able to work as part of a team and display strong leadership qualities.
- A entrepreneurial self-starter who can set their own targets and efficiently organise work schedule.
- Able to demonstrate market knowledge and use effectively in daily workload.
- Happy to work weekends, late evenings and early mornings as job dictates.
Essential Experience & Skills:
- At least three years proven track record in field sales with extensive experience in account management.
- Experience working with wholesales directly
- Ability to confidently present in front of customers and large groups.
- Strong commercial understanding with ability to prepare tender documentation and creation of financial proposals.
- Full clean European driving license for the last three years and commutable to the office in South West London
Job Offer
The role offers amazing progression and an attractive salary of up to £30k and many other 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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