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BUSINESS UNIT CONTROLLER - FOODSERVICE

Employer
SmithCarey Recruitment
Location
Flexible - Midlands/Northern base
Salary
Up to £80k + 20% bonus, car & benefits
Closing date
1 Mar 2018

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Business Sector
Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
Sales

Job Details

SENIOR FOODSERVICE COMMERCIAL LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY

BUSINESS UNIT CONTROLLER - FOODSERVICE

Flexible - Midlands/Northern base

Up to £80k + 20% bonus, car & benefits

Outstanding opportunity to join a market leading £550m dynamic UK food business with a substantial own label and household television advertised branded market leading product portfolio.

Following a restructuring of the foodservice, retail and industrial business the Managing Director is looking to appoint a highly professional and experienced Foodservice Business Unit Controller. This role will take full P&L and National Account team management responsibility for a c.£40m portfolio of both foodservice and industrial B2B business.

Having strongly developed your commercial career within well recognised food companies’ Foodservice sector, you have a balance of own label and branded product experience within the foodservice sector. This experience must include managing either Brakes or Bidfood national distributor accounts, together with a sound understanding of major end user national accounts and modern route to market strategies.

Currently operating at Senior National Account Manager or Controller level, you are an accomplished negotiator and experienced national accounts team leader with outstanding drive and determination to win through your team. You are highly personable with the gravitas to ‘hold the floor’ with senior board level key stakeholders both internally and externally.

If you feel you have the right level of strategic and operational hands-on experience, plus the expertise gained across the foodservice market for this role, please email your up-to-date CV and full benefits package details to Mark Smith at mark@smithcarey.co.uk quoting reference number MS/1945. Alternatively, please call 07747 847 214 or 01488 649 360 for an initial confidential discussion.  

Closing date for applications: 1st March 2018
 

Company

As specialists in Sales & Marketing Recruitment and Training, SmithCarey Ltd have extensive knowledge and experience of the FMCG market and all trade channels from the recruitment and corporate perspective, which together with face-to-face contact ensures that we understand both our clients and candidates needs. We are fully committed to building long-term client and candidate relationships based on trust and results, which ensures candidates can effectively manage their ‘career road map’ and get the right job, not just any job, as well as ensuring our clients select the best talent.

We are passionate and committed to helping ambitious, commercial talent achieve their potential in some of food and drink’s most progressive and respected companies.

Our services at SmithCarey embrace retained recruitment consultancy, interim management and training, with our FMCG clients ranging from major bluechips to medium and small companies across food, drink and non-food, branded and own label.

Spanning both the corporate and the recruitment viewpoint, our Consultants have an outstanding track record of knowledge and experience in the FMCG market – specifically Sales & Marketing, including; National Account Management, Category Management, Customer Marketing, Shopper Marketing, Field Sales, International Sales Management and Brand Marketing.

We take our relationship with you, the candidate - and you, the client - very seriously. What you can expect from us is honest advice and real assistance at an individual level. We understand your concerns, we can get on your wavelength, and we can produce the results you want – be it a major career move to steer you in the right direction with your future ‘career road map’ or simply some welcome guidance and support.

The SmithCarey team are passionate in their belief that companies who want to attract top talent need to invest and take a more proactive approach, even before vacancies arise, by creating an employer branding talent attraction strategy. We have invested heavily in both resource and new technology to embrace the LinkedIn/Facebook generation, through social networking tools and other media.

Everything we do is done with passion, professionalism and integrity. We operate with strict confidentiality and never send out CVs without prior consent, recommend candidates without thorough screening or market false positions to attract response.

Our message to people who have the drive and energy to be a success is to come and talk to us. We can help by advising you what’s out there, provide support with your ‘career roadmap’ for how you might progress, together with advice on how to make it happen and, who knows, we might have the perfect position for you right now!

Take a look at our current opportunities; then email with a covering letter, stating your current remuneration package and a copy of your CV to one of our Consultants.

For Recruitment:

Mark Smith - mark@smithcarey.co.uk - mobile 07747 847214

Maria Murphy – mariam@smithcarey.co.uk – mobile 07745 184922

For Training:

Paul Carey - paul@smithcarey.co.uk – mobile 07786 745165

Or for any other general enquiries call 01488 649360 or email: directors@smithcarey.co.uk or visit our website www.smithcarey.co.uk

We look forward to helping you manage your future ‘career road map’ and assisting you in building a successful Sales or Marketing career in the exciting world of FMCG.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01488 649 360
Location
SmithCarey Limited
PO Box 735
Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire
PE29 9PH
United Kingdom

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