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National Account Manager (Value & Discount Channel)

Employer
Burtons Biscuits
Location
Manchester
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
18 Nov 2020

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

Job Details

National Account Manager (Value & Discount Channel) 

Package.

Excellent Salary & great benefits to include a Car Allowance, company pension scheme, Private Healthcare, company bonus, 25 days holiday (plus option to buy up to 5 extra days holiday), plus lots and lots of biscuits.

Location: Can be homebased, but will require travel to head office 1-2 times a month (St Albans) and travel to customers as required.

So, who Are Burton’s Biscuits?

We are the home of Jammie Dodgers, Paterson Shortbread, Maryland Cookies and Wagon Wheels to name just a few! We are incredibly lucky to work in the world of making delicious biscuits!

‘We are a more successful and fun place to work when people feel free to be themselves’

At Burton’s we believe in the power of being authentic and being able to ‘Be Yourself’.

Understanding our customers is crucial to our success, so having a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers is vital.

As a business we are committed to the continuous improvement of diversity and equality in the workplace and we welcome talented individuals from all backgrounds who share our Pride and Passion for Baking Great Biscuits and snacks.

Along with having amazing brands, we have secured long term agreements to allow us to manufacture a number of sweet & savoury snacks across Mars, Cathedral City & Marmite branded products. We also have several key strategic partnerships within the Retailer Private Label sector and our proud of the amazing biscuits we bake for our customers and consumers.

Burton’s Biscuits are owned by a Private Equity Owned business Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP or Teachers for short) and form part of their c.$200 B Net Assets portfolio. Working in partnership with Teachers, has allowed Burtons Biscuits to become a forward thinking and progressive business.

In order to ensure we can continue to make fantastic biscuits, and to help us on this amazing journey, we are proud to announce that in 2019 we completed the acquisition of a premium sweet and savoury biscuit manufacturer Thomas Fudge’s, also in 2019 we acquired Scottish bakers Paterson Arran. This increases our baking capabilities across a number of new sweet and savoury categories.

As a result, we now have 6 bakery sites across the UK, located in Blackpool, Livingston, Edinburgh, Dorset, Isle of Arran and Llantarnam, with our head office in St Albans. In total we employ circa 2,000 people around across our locations.

We don’t want to bore you with just a Job description about the role we want to tell you what it’s really like to work for us?

So let’s start with ….…

What are we all about?

Here at Burton’s Biscuit Company we pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. Our goal is to support our team in achieving their career goals. We do this by providing a working environment that offers opportunity, support, scope and pace of change. Our culture is the foundation of our business. We are fast paced, agile and fun.

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to join our sales team as a National Account Manager. This is a home based role, looking after retailers with head offices in the North of England, every now and again and when it is safe to do so, we’d love to see you in our head office in St Albans, Hertforshire a couple of times a month.

We don’t want to bore you with just a Job description about the role we want to tell you what it’s really like to work for us?

So let’s start with ….…

Why work as part of our sales team?

This is an opportunity to join an innovative sales team full of energy, drive and passion. You will make a real difference by managing your customer base and working closely with other departments to deliver great results across own label and some of the best biscuit brands on the market.

What does your typical day look like?

Every day is different at Burton’s Biscuit Company. One day you could be providing input internally on business strategy and the following day you could be out with a customer, sharing and executing our exciting future plans.

What are the key ingredients needed for the role?

You need to be commercially savvy to drive our business forward with the desire to build strong relationships internally and externally. Strong negotiation is key combined with a proactive, self-starting attitude. With previous P&L responsibility, you’ll now the key levers to pull to create winning proposals for Burton's, your customer base and our consumers.

Final part of the mix.

If you are an ambitious National Account Executive within food looking for the next step in your career or a National Account Manager looking for a new challenge in a new sector (food experience not required) in a fun, fast paced and progressive business then we have the opportunity for you!! This role can be home based.

As a forward thinking and innovative manufacture, we need an equally creative individual to bring new ideas and ways of selling our products into our customers. You will need to have experience with customers within the supermarket, wholesale, convenience market place is essential, ideally within the discounter and value channel.

If you are ready to begin a career with real bite we would love to hear from you so apply now by clicking the link below.

Ref: 94985

Company

Burtons Biscuits

Who Are Burtons Biscuits?

We are the home of Jammie Dodgers, Paterson Shortbread, Maryland Cookies and Wagon Wheels to name just a few! We are incredibly lucky to work in the world of making delicious biscuits!

‘We are a more successful and fun place to work when people feel free to be themselves’.

At Burton’s we believe in the power of being authentic, being entrepreneurial and being supportive to each other to meet our common goals…oh and did we mention having fun?!

Understanding our customers is crucial to our success, so having a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers is vital.

As a business we are committed to the continuous improvement of diversity and equality in the workplace and we welcome talented individuals from all backgrounds who share our Pride and Passion for Baking Great Biscuits and snacks.

Along with having amazing brands, we have secured long term agreements to allow us to manufacture a number of sweet & savoury snacks across Mars, Cathedral City & Marmite branded products. We also have several key strategic partnerships within the Retailer Private Label sector and our proud of the amazing biscuits we bake for our customers and consumers.

Within our Burton’s group, we have 6 bakery sites across the UK, located in Blackpool, Livingston, Edinburgh, Dorset, Isle of Arran and Llantarnam, with our head office in St Albans.   In total we employ circa 2,100 people around across our locations.

Burton’s Biscuits is owned by Ferrero and we are proud to be part of such a fantastic and successful business.  The Ferrero Group operates in more than 50 Countries and their products are sold in over 170 Countries.  We are delighted to be part of the Ferrero group which represents over 377,000 employees across the world and has a consolidated turnover of €12.3 billion (2020).

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