National Account Manager- Food service
- Employer
- Michael Page Sales
- Location
- England, South East England
- Salary
- £45000 - £55000 per annum
- Closing date
- 9 Apr 2018
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- National Accounts, Sales
Job Details
Working for a rapidly growing organisation, with great progression opportunities within the food service sector.
Client Details
A Non-Corporate business which has experienced exponential growth over the past few years. The company rewards success with first class opportunities within the food service business. With its staff at the forefront of the business they provide an excellent working culture and first class products. Working with some of the biggest names in the market, they are a multiple award winning company with no corporate red tape.
Description
The National Account Manager role is responsible for:
- Further developing national accounts, ascertaining the need of the client and the consumer to grow the business
- Implementing and monitoring account performance against KPIs
- Annually review customer account plans as part of the budgeting process for the following year.
- Support allocated accounts in the product knowledge and the company offering.
- Maintain a high level of customer service, ensuring customer satisfaction and retention, through building strong relationships across all areas of the customer's business.
- Personally managing each client relationship whilst through the business encourage the development of a positive working relationship across all departments
- Working with other departments as required to ensure that budgeted sales targets, account profitability, customer satisfaction and retention are achieved across portfolio
- Being involved in NPD to maximise business opportunities
Profile
The successful National Account Manager will:
- Have previous experience in managing national foodservice accounts
- Be customer focused and solutions driven
- Possess excellent negotiation skills
- Be a first class communicator
- have strong numerical skills, being solid with excel to support the sales function through forecasting
- A passion for driving costs out of the business & increasing profitability
- Be flexible and commercial
- Be innovative and commercial- identifying new business opportunities
Job Offer
The role offers an attractive salary plus 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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