UK Sales Director: Karmel Foods
- Employer
- Advocate Group
- Location
- London
- Salary
- £70,000 – £80,000 per annum depending on experience
- Closing date
- 30 Nov 2018
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Sales
Job Details
Job Title: UK Sales Director: Karmel Foods
Location: London
Salary: £65,000 – £70,000 per annum depending on experience
Company Information:
The Advocate Group have partnered with Annabel Karmel in their search for a UK Sales Director. Annabel Karmel is a leading food and lifestyle brand synonymous with mums and parents all over the world. Founded by the UK’s No.1 Children's Cookery Author, trusted food expert, and entrepreneur Annabel Karmel MBE, this inspiring and much-loved brand spans food, books, apps, entertainment and a fast-expanding online community.
The Role:
The Annabel Karmel food retail business is fast expanding, with ranges in Chilled food, Frozen Food and snacks. Our major markets are the UK, Australia, Europe and the Middle East.
With rapid growth of the UK business we are now seeking an experienced UK Sales Director who has worked within the food FMCG sector to join our team and to be based at our offices in London, W9.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a flexible, down to earth, highly experienced individual to contribute to a busy, fast-paced growing business. The role will involve working closely with Annabel and her small dynamic team to be the driving force behind the Company’s short, medium and long-term strategic development in the UK.
Key Responsibilities:
You will be responsible for ensuring the commercial success of the business through profitable growth of sales and margin.
Key accountabilities include:
- Account management of our current product portfolio with existing customers.
- Agree Joint business plans with major customers
- Attend Customer and manufacturer meetings
- Identify new customer opportunities via gap analysis.
- Gather market and customer information to identify NPD that fits with the company strategy
- Oversee fulfilment and delivery of orders to ensure industry leading customer service.
- Set, agree and manage a twelve-month sales and expenditure budget.
- Manage forecasting and stock levels of finished product sourced from multiple manufacturers.
- Be a proactive member of the team, sharing best practice.
This is a hands-on role having daily contact with our manufacturers and customers. We are looking for someone living in or near London
Skills & Knowledge Required:
- Strong academic background
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- High level of literacy and numeracy
- Good analytical skills, able to demonstrate a balanced well-reasoned approach to problem solving
- Able to work independently and part of a team
- Strong hands on track record of working with UK major multiples.
- Proven results in a challenging environment
- Experience in dealing with suppliers and well as customers
- Experience in analysing and interpreting market data e.g. Nielsen IRI
Reporting Line: The candidate will report directly to CEO, Annabel Karmel
This is not a typical UK sales director role. As this is a small team you will be the sole member of the UK sales team responsible all aspects of developing the UK trade. Export sales is covered by a different role.
Company
We are a leading recruitment partner to the FMCG and consumer product sectors. Brand advocate representation, with a focus on inclusive hiring, is central to our ethos and ethics.
As talent partner to some of the most exciting global names, innovators, and challenger brands, we have a proven track record of not only sourcing top talent, but improving employer brand, candidate journey, and talent acquisition strategies. Our specialist consultants plug directly into your brand to act as your talent team, or work alongside your existing talent function.
Being consumer product-centric means that our candidate and client partners can draw on our deep networks, proven processes, and highly trained talent specialists.
Our aim is to: identify, engage, assess, and provide exceptional consumer product talent, always with the candidate journey at the forefront of mind.
What Do We Offer?
- 3:1 interview-to-placement ratio.
That means that, for every three candidates we have out on interview, one is getting the job.
- 96% employee retention.
Our retention rate is market leading – 96% of the people that we place are still with that organisation at least 12 months later.
- 92% right-first-time shortlists.
Of the placements we make in roles that we work exclusively (which is the vast majority), 92% are hired from our hired from our first shortlist.
- 28 days average time to hire.
From briefing to offer, our average turnaround time is 28 days.
Our Recruitment Solutions:
Search & Selection | Project Recruitment | Embedded Talent | Executive Search | Contract Recruitment | Market Mapping
Contact Us Today to Discuss Your Next Recruitment Project:
📞 0333 772 7200
📩 workwithus@advocate-group.co.uk
💻 https://www.advocate-group.co.uk/
- Website
- http://www.advocate-group.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 0333 772 7200
- Location
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The Advocate Group
No. 1 Spinningfields, WeWork
Quay Street
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M3 3JE
GB
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