senior national account manager - grocery Fruit Towers - London Sales  

innocent started with a simple mission: to make drinks that make it easy to do yourself some good. In 1999 we concocted a few smoothies in our kitchen and tested them on people at a music festival; today we’re blending every type of fruit & veg under the sun and selling drinks right across Europe. We have great ambitions: to show the world that you can build a successful business that cares about more than just profit, and to leave things better than we find them. We’re proud to call ourselves Europe’s favourite little healthy drinks company, but we’re still growing. And that means we need more brilliant people who share our ambition, to join in with the next, most exciting, part of our story.

what you'll be doing

The role offers fantastic experience managing one of our biggest customers, leading a cross-functional team to deliver top notch results (Category, Shopper Marketing, Market Team Leads and Customer Supply teams). You’ll manage a team of two direct reports, be accountable for the execution of the yearly trade plan (JBP) and develop the longer term strategy. As a Senior Commercial Manager with extra account resource we expect you to be going after every opportunity at full speed, and sharing your learnings across the grocery team.

As well as leading the account in Fruit Towers, you’ll own the relationship with this retailer, visiting them regularly, making it your mission to understand them and their business inside out, to ensure we understand and deliver against their business needs. You will also need to nail the basics internally, with a big emphasis on forecast accuracy so we can plan effectively for the growth.

This role will be based with us here in Fruit Towers, London. We hope that this is a handy location for you to travel to and from each day, but we can be flexible. It would be great if we could have you in Fruit Towers with us for a full time role (at least 3 days with us and 2 days remotely) or part time role (3 days with us and 1 remotely). 

you'll have

• The ability to build long-term, high quality relationships with external partners
• A real passion for selling with negotiation skills to drive the best outcome
• A love for working with numbers, with a great grasp of a P&L
• The motivation to lead a high performing team with a real focus on developing talent
• A good grasp of the market, category management, forecasting, and shopper marketing principles

you'll get

• The opportunity to develop your strategic and analytical thinking
• A great team environment and the ability to lead cross functionally
• Loads of opportunities to hone your selling, negotiating & presentation skills
• The ability to make a material difference to the success of innocent 

In return for everything you can bring, we can offer you an exciting, challenging role in a fast-growing and dynamic business, with plenty of career opportunities in the UK and across Europe as well as a competitive rewards package.  We also have some great clubs, a free breakfast and as many smoothies as you can shake a stick at. Take a look at our reward page for more details.

You will help us to keep doing business the right way – keeping innocent one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work, using our B Corp status to inspire wider change, and reinforcing our culture of staying little as we grow big.

If you think you have everything we're looking for and more, then we'd love to hear from you. You'll need to get your skates on though, as applications close soon.

No agencies please.