Key Account Manager
- Employer
- Michael Page Sales
- Location
- England, Essex, Harlow
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 10 Jul 2019
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Sales
Job Details
Excellent opportunity to join a healthy food and wellness brand who have some exciting growth plans for the future.
Client Details
My client are a healthy food and wellness brand who are based on the border of hertfordshire / essex. They have a number of well known brands and have some really exciting growth plans for the future.
Description
The New Business/ Key Account Manager will be responsible for driving sales growth across the portfolio of retail brands. You will take the lead on winning new business and developing business with existing customers geared towards the relevant market place for each brand. You will use your skills and experience to develop new leads, build strong relationships with customers and be responsible for the management of category plans.
Profile
Key Account Manager
You will have 2+ years' experience of managing Key Accounts, have a track record of delivering annualised category growth with existing accounts and developing new business. You are customer focused, financially astute and have strong commercial acumen. You are also passionate about working within the rapidly growing functional foods sector targeting the health and nutrition focused consumer.
- 3+ years FMCG Field Sales or Key Account Management (food, drink or health products)
- Professional, commercially astute and aware of what the competition are doing.
- Focused on winning New Business
- Confident, motivated and determined.
- Excellent sales and negotiation skills.
- Have a high attention to detail with great presentation skills.
- An excellent communicator, both verbally and in writing.
- Be able to build outstanding customer relationships and have perfect 'people skills'.
- Great organisational and time management skills and the ability to work well under pressure.
- Proven competency in numerical and analytical skills.
- Experienced working with and Managing the P&L for the accounts they have worked with.
Job Offer
Key Account Manager
Competitive Basic Salary + Car Allowance + Bonus
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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