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2 National Account Managers - leading brands + COB, exciting roles with strong succession planning

Employer
Food Industry Associates
Location
Home-based roles with weekly / fortnightly travel to a Midlands based head office
Salary
Up to £47,000 + 20% bonus + car/allowance + fuel card + benefits
Closing date
23 Apr 2019

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

Job Details

If you’re looking to work with category leading brands in a business offering excellent career progression opportunities to high performers, we have just the opportunities for you.

A privately-owned SME currently outperforming their category counterparts in a significant way, their core values and culture place emphasis on entrepreneurial thinking, swift decision making, and effective execution. 

These pillars have seen them gain significant market share over recent years alongside additional organic growth achieved through industry leading innovation extending in to new category areas.

A truly customer relationship-focussed business, they are now often recognised as the ‘go to’ supplier of choice for collaborative innovation and category influence.

With hugely ambitious growth plans, the business has successfully added to new brands to its portfolio over the last 2 year and continues to explore further opportunities to continue their upward trajectory.  All this means that they offer the ideal platform for ambitious individuals looking to join a business where performance and results will be recognised and rewarded with regular career-progression opportunities.

As a result of annual succession planning, they’ve asked us to help identify 2 ambitious National Account Executives / Managers keen to assume full responsibility for customers across their convenience and discounter channels.

The first role will be responsible for managing Booker / Tesco, Nisa, Spar and Coop, whilst the second position will focus more on discounters including B&M, Home Bargains, Farmfoods and Iceland.

Both positions are very much viewed as classic entry level positions for National Account Managers within the business, from which clear succession plans will be put in place to progress in to grocery / export / international / category type positions.

In order to be considered for the role candidates must be currently operating at NAE / NAM level within FMCG manufacturing environments and whilst brand exposure is helpful, experience to private label manufacturing, incorporating project management skills and cross-functional working is equally as helpful.

With impressive plans for 2019 and strong budget to support their growth via above and below the line advertising, their future looks exciting to say the least, so if you’d like to help them along their journey and join a journey that can accelerate your own progression along the way, please get in touch.

Company

For over a decade now, Food Industry Associates Ltd have proven to be a recruiter of choice for ambitious SME food and beverage manufacturers across the UK.  We don't recruit for the big corporates by choice.  Instead, we choose to work with companies with personality, entrepreneurial flare (not process), looking to disrupt the market with cutting edge innovation to provide consumers with better, healthier choices.

Are you an early stage start-up struggling to find the right solution to help you gain your fist listings in a specific customer channel before you can raise the budget to employ somebody on a permanent basis?  Maybe you know you need to source a commercial leader but aren't 100% clear in what format, or how to adequately incentivise somebody from a much larger business to join your mission?  Come speak to us.

If you're a more established business looking to bring fresh talent on board to drive ambitious sales targets, source a creative innovator to help you drive in to new extended categories, or looking to strengthen in marketing / category terms, again, come speak to us.

We've a proven record in recruiting talent for an array of businesses, helping them source commercial talent to help them achieve their goals.  From early stage sales talent through to equity-incentivised leadership roles, we've proven time and time again to find the right people for our clients at the first attempt.  

How are we different to most of our competitors?  Unlike most, we don't have as diverse a portfolio of clients we work with.  However all those we do work with continuously come back to us whenever they next have another need.  In our opinion successful recruitment is achieved when two businesses truly 'partner' and collaborate together.  In our opinion the better we know you, the better we understand all the extra elements aside from simple skillset and experience to ensure the right 'fit' is identified at the first attempt.  In our opinion, this is recruitment, done properly.

Company info
Website
Telephone
0113 3572245
Location
Food Industry Associates Ltd
Airebank House
419 Kirkstall Road
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS4 2EZ
GB

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