Account Director - Health & Beauty
- Employer
- Michael Page Sales
- Location
- England, Hertfordshire, Borehamwood
- Salary
- £50000 - £60000 per annum
- Closing date
- 4 Jan 2019
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- Business Sector
- Non Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Sales
Job Details
Excellent opportunity for an Account Director - Health & Beauty to join a market leading FMCG business on the businesses biggest health and beauty customers.
Client Details
My client is a market leading promotional marketing agency who work with a wide range of FMCG businesses and brands. They have a global footprint with 32 office across the globe and are continually growing there UK head office is based in Borehamwood Hertfordshire.
Description
Account Director - Health & Beauty
- Responsible for the annual business planning process for the account, setting sales and profit targets.
- Actively seek out new business opportunities with the client to increase sales turnover and profit for the account
- Lead the day to day activities of .... with the client, throughout the sales and product development stages, and secure PO.
- Effectively manage the pitch process for new programmes, creating insightful and compelling solutions for the client.
- Ensure that responses are managed in a timely manner.
- Maximise sales and profitability of each line ongoing
- Management of the creative process with the design team for given projects to ensure team are briefed correctly, and deadlines are met.
- Manage the product development and approvals process according to the client's standard procedures.
- Effective control of live orders and status reporting to ensure that the client is kept updated with progress and issues are handled in a positive manner - working alongside Operations team.
Profile
Account Director - Health & Beauty
- French speaker
- Preferably with previous experience with the Health & Beauty category.
- Clear communication (oral & written) within team - reporting to General Manager
- Ability to plan, organise & prioritise all forms of administration (as detailed in Operations Manual) and individual workload.
- Monitor multiple projects.
- Pro-active creative development of products and presentations.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Business understanding of Sales & Profit / P&L statements, good level of numeracy.
- Set and achieve Personal Sales Targets and overall contribution to company sales targets.
- Ability to create long term strategies for growth of existing clients and new business development.
- Ability to develop & inspire others in their team and across the business as a whole.
- Presentation skills essential.
- Ensure that all Quality Control standards are adhered to (as detailed in Operations Manual)
- Take an active interest in their own self development.
- IT Literate - Word / Excel / PowerPoint.
- Attention to detail is critical - ability to produce concise, accurate and clear briefs / correspondence / administration.
Job Offer
Competitive Basic Salary + Great 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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