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Commercial Manager - Sports Nutrition Business

Employer
Better Placed Recruitment
Location
London
Salary
20% bonus, car allowance
Closing date
6 Feb 2019

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Business Sector
Food & Drink
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Function
National Accounts, Sales

Job Details

Are you a sports player? A competitive character with a passion for nutrition and fitness? This role may be perfect for you!

  • Commercial Manager role
  • Working with elite sports people
  • Vibrant, passionate team

Do you have a strong background in consumer goods managing retail accounts? Better Placed are working with a leading global sports nutrition brand who due to consistently impressive growth are now recruiting a Commercial Manager to take full responsibility for high-profile accounts.

We are looking for a NAM or a high flying JNAM with an 'edge', someone with a real hunger to drive their career forward with an industry leading consumer focused brand.

You will be responsible for:

 

  • Setting a strategy, plan & budget to deliver commercial objectives
  • Managing existing accounts and bringing on new business
  • Deliver budgeted sales, spend and profit measures
  • Creating a Joint Business Plan with the customer that delivers against external & internal objectives
  • Work with Marketing & Category to close distribution gaps and deliver New Product Launch plans (distribution, display, turnover targets)
  • Manage contracts - identify & win new business; defend & retain existing business, as appropriate within business strategy

To succeed in this role, you will:

 

  • Passionate about sport - both playing and spectating
  • Be a creative thinker
  • Communicate with impact
  • Be proven in Category Based Selling
  • Have plenty of Commercial Awareness
  • Have proven Customer Management & Relations experience with the grocery multiples
  • Passionate about working with premium food products.
  • Self-motivated, persuasive and intuitive
  • Commutable to London

What's on offer?

 

  • Competitive salary and an excellent package
  • The opportunity to be part of a business with one of the strongest cultures in FMCG
  • A great working environment, with likeminded, driven individuals, who work together as a collaborative and dynamic team
  • Outstanding opportunities for development, and a business that promotes from within
  • Autonomy to manage your own accounts
  • Excellent surrounding teams, with experts in Category & Marketing to liaise with and create the best possible results

This is a unique opportunity and not one to be missed so please get in touch to find out more!

 

Company

With an enviable client list of blue chip FMCG businesses, Better Placed focuses on the recruitment of Sales and Marketing professionals across the UK. Working from offices in Leeds and Manchester, our team of highly experienced Consultants have built relationships with a wide range of companies in the North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands as well as elsewhere in the UK.

In many cases we are preferred supplier to these businesses operating on an exclusive basis. We operate at all levels from graduate through to Director and our team are widely acknowledged as specialists in their chosen vertical markets.At Better Placed we focus on our candidates as much as our clients and we understand that failure to do so will slow the rapid growth that we have seen since our inception in 2002. Our track record of maintaining long term relationships with both candidates and clients is testament to how seriously we take this and is a fundamental part of what we stand for.

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