Account Manager - Online Channel - Fresh Food - Ideal for your next career step
- Employer
- Food Industry Associates
- Location
- Office-based - Kent or Essex
- Salary
- Competitive basic salary + Benefits package
- Closing date
- 13 Apr 2018
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- National Accounts, Retail Management, Sales
Job Details
We are representing a market leading, fresh food business that are part of a wider international food group. They supply a number of key customers including the supermarkets and non-retail sectors. The group can offer progression, career development and the chance to play an integral part in future growth plans. It’s a fast-paced category with product innovation. The business can offer an autonomous, inclusive culture which puts people first. They still have strong family values at the heart of the business. We are seeking an Account Manager to join the team managing two key UK customers.
Reporting into the Commercial Manager working within a growing product category you will have full P&L responsibility for Ocado and Amazon. Both are viewed as important customers for the business, the online channel is a key area of growth. You will need to manage relationships with customers, procurement, technical and other functions across the business. Working closely with these retailers you will need to be strategic, innovative and commercially minded in order to grow the accounts. The role offers autonomy and the chance for this person to open up new retailers that the business is not currently trading with.
We are seeking candidates from the food industry with account management experience. It would be helpful to have worked in a fresh food or short-shelf life product category but not essential. Any experience of managing online retailers such as those listed above would also be beneficial. This is a development opportunity, so you may currently be at National Account Executive or Junior Account Management level and looking to take the next step in your career. Alternatively, you may currently be operating at a similar level, looking for a new challenge with a market leading business. This person needs to be personable, articulate and ambitious.
Please forward a copy of your CV if you feel you have relevant experience to luke@foodindustryassociates.com or call 07538 831 940 for a confidential discussion.
Company
For over a decade now, Food Industry Associates Ltd have proven to be a recruiter of choice for ambitious SME food and beverage manufacturers across the UK. We don't recruit for the big corporates by choice. Instead, we choose to work with companies with personality, entrepreneurial flare (not process), looking to disrupt the market with cutting edge innovation to provide consumers with better, healthier choices.
Are you an early stage start-up struggling to find the right solution to help you gain your fist listings in a specific customer channel before you can raise the budget to employ somebody on a permanent basis? Maybe you know you need to source a commercial leader but aren't 100% clear in what format, or how to adequately incentivise somebody from a much larger business to join your mission? Come speak to us.
If you're a more established business looking to bring fresh talent on board to drive ambitious sales targets, source a creative innovator to help you drive in to new extended categories, or looking to strengthen in marketing / category terms, again, come speak to us.
We've a proven record in recruiting talent for an array of businesses, helping them source commercial talent to help them achieve their goals. From early stage sales talent through to equity-incentivised leadership roles, we've proven time and time again to find the right people for our clients at the first attempt.
How are we different to most of our competitors? Unlike most, we don't have as diverse a portfolio of clients we work with. However all those we do work with continuously come back to us whenever they next have another need. In our opinion successful recruitment is achieved when two businesses truly 'partner' and collaborate together. In our opinion the better we know you, the better we understand all the extra elements aside from simple skillset and experience to ensure the right 'fit' is identified at the first attempt. In our opinion, this is recruitment, done properly.
- Website
- http://www.foodindustryassociates.com/
- Telephone
- 0113 3572245
- Location
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Food Industry Associates Ltd
Airebank House
419 Kirkstall Road
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS4 2EZ
GB
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