National Account Manager
- Employer
- Michael Page Sales
- Location
- England, West Midlands, Birmingham
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 21 Nov 2017
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- Business Sector
- Non Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Sales
Job Details
Opportunity based out of Birmingham for a well trained, commercial National Account Manager to take on the key retail account of Boots. This is a high profile role within a market leading branded business and offers a real opportunity to grow through the business long term.
Client Details
The business have a history spanning over 100 years with world loved brands that have been trusted through generations. My client offer branded solutions to retail customers across the UK with strong presence in the Grocery, Retail & Wholesale markets.
The business have a genuine interest in retaining, looking after and developing each and every one of their employees meaning turnover of staff is extremely low. They pride themselves on taking the time to truly understand customer needs, leading the way with category management and relevant NPD.
This role is pivotal to the success of a key, national accounts and so they require an ambitious, commercial candidate.
Description
You will be fully commercially responsible for your dedicated lines within a key retail/wholesale accounts. It is vital to the success of this position that you work cross functionally with finance, brand, category etc to provide bespoke solutions designed around your customer needs.
Due to the current retail conditions, you will need to be competent and experienced having tough conversations including price increases, shelf space and able to negotiate JBPs at all levels.
This is a true account management role and so it is essential to involved with all the details on a day to day basis. You will have the support of the back office team and an NAE but you will ultimately be accountable for the success of the sales within that account.
Profile
Key Skills: National Account Manager
- Outstanding communication skills with customer facing experience as a National Account Manager or Senior National Account Manager within FMCG.
- Ideally you will have experience of Branded goods - open to food, drink or non-food experience.
- Ability to build close relationships with key contacts to create sustainable joint business plans that deliver long term.
- The ability to analyse and deal with complex scenarios and present solutions in a simple and effective manner.
- Resilient and tenacious with the ability to work on own initiative to problem solve.
- Able to establish and maintain effective relationships both internally and externally.
- Excellent communication skills - both written and verbal.
- Comfortable working in a process and target driven working environment.
- Able to demonstrate a high level of attention to detail and accuracy.
- Located commutable to Birmingham as required.
Job Offer
Competitive salary based on experience plus market leading additional 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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