Retail Account Executive
- Employer
- Michael Page Sales
- Location
- England, Middlesex, Uxbridge
- Salary
- £25000 - £27000 per annum + additional benefits inc car allowance
- Closing date
- 6 Sep 2018
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- Business Sector
- Non Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Other Job Function, Sales
Job Details
Support National Account Managers on top 3 Grocer or Digital channels with exciting products whereby you form an integral part of a small sales team. This role enables you to have autonomy to work cross discipline and support with key accounts.
Client Details
My client is a multi-billion pound toy company with market leading products and licensing. Always at the forefront of the market they reward the creative. Through having an open door policy, they take pride in their staff and creative an excellent working environment with clear progression plant to enable you to excel within your career and take things to the next level.
Description
The Retail Account Executive will report into the Channel Sales Manager and will:
- Analyse market share, competitors and conduct competitor brand performance analysis
- Generate weekly and monthly commercial performance data - volumes, sales, margins
- Convert data into meaningful and insightful analysis to support decision making
- Provide accurate forecasting and demand planning, liaising with relevant departments
- Provide detailed analysis of product costs to the Commercial team to assist in identifying savings opportunities
- Prepare sales documentation to include proposals, reports, competitor information, analysis
- In conjunction with the Team analyse various sets of data (eg: macro-economic data, sales, products by sku) to provide trend reports and information
- Liaise with the Demand Planner and Customer Services team to ensure orders are processed and prioritised accordingly
- Develop excellent relationships with colleagues to create a first class customer service
- Support the Sales Services team to deliver on process improvement for the Retailers
- Have a clear understanding of country Sales Services objectives and account promotional activities and support the delivery of local Activation plans and business 'must do' activities
- Liaise with cross functional teams to understand and deliver the evolving needs of Retailers for both in-store and eCommerce activation
- Support the Sales team to deliver quality, accuracy and timeliness in forecasting for all activations, promotions and launches by customer
Profile
The successful candidate will:
- Have the ability to work cross-functionally across a business, particularly with Sales and Marketing teams
- Be ability to communicate effectively at all levels, verbally and in writing, including effective liaison with Customers
- Possess working knowledge of MS Office & other relevant software - comfortable with learning new systems
- Have a strong knowledge of MS Excel
- Have strong level of numeracy, attention to detail and accuracy
- Possess good analytical and problem-solving skills at all levels
- Be confident and Self-Motivated
- Be able to pick up new systems quickly
- Be ability to present confidently
- Be able to work autonomously
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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