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Area Business Manager

Employer
McCormick UK Limited
Location
Nottingham/Leicester, United Kingdom
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
17 Dec 2020

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

Job Details

Position:   Area Business Manager Based:      Nottingham/Leicester, United Kingdom

Would you like to become a part of a leading organisation that brings the Joy of Flavour to Life and makes Every Meal and Moment Better?

We are currently recruiting for an experienced field-based Area Business Manager to lead our team within the grocery sector in the midlands.  If you have managed large field-based teams within FMCG directly for a brand owner or field marketing agency we want to hear from you. 

If so, you might be the person we are looking for! Our growth starts with yours.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES 

  • To lead your team to execute the Schwartz brand within your geography and ensure that stores are aligned to the plan
  • Build and maintain effective relationships with account store management.
  • Optimise resource to fulfil customer call frequency.
  • To deliver fixture compliance and expand secondary display activation opportunities to support sales out.
  • Ensure promotional sales activation is implemented effectively in-store.
  • Ensure that all business opportunities within direct Area Accounts are fully exploited.
  • Provide training and coaching to improve individual capability.
  • Collaborate with talent acquisition and HR to manage effective recruitment process.
  • Collaborate with Field operations in the release of store volumes aligned to available daily resource.
  • Ensure awareness amongst all direct reports of Health & Safety issues and apply relevant best practice.
  • Complete administration tasks accurately and within deadlines.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

  • Proven people manager.
  • Proven business sense/acumen coupled with a demonstrable understanding of cost/benefit implications and product profitability.
  • Innovative style and approach - constructively Challenges status quo; seeks breakthrough solutions to improve business, team and individual performance.
  • Proven ability to handle complexity in a cross functional, customer facing environment.
  • Proven ability to consistently achieve results.
  • Drives internal and external customer service.
  • Ability to influence, internally and externally, without direct authority.
  • Demonstrable understanding of the UK Retail trade/market and coupled with knowledge of the food category.
  • PC literate (full Microsoft suite of applications + sales/stock management systems)

COMPANY

McCormick is a global leader in flavour. With 10,000 employees around the world and more than $4.2 billion in annual sales, the Company manufactures, markets and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavourful products to the entire food industry, retail outlets, food manufactures and food service businesses.

We have a passion for flavour. The company is serving customers from nearly 50 locations in 24 countries and consumers can buy our brands in more than 110 countries. Our industrial business flavours snacks, wraps, beverages and many other products for customers, which include global restaurant chains and leading food manufacturers.

With approximately 4,500 employees, the company has operations in 13 countries across the Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA) Zone and serves customers in more than 25 markets through its consumer and industrial businesses. McCormick is present in key consumer markets with leading brands, including Schwartz in the UK. McCormick EMEA Headquarters are located in Haddenham (UK).

TO APPLY

If you are looking for a new challenge and want to join a highly motivated team in a rewarding environment, please apply via our careers centre at http://www.mccormickcorporation.com/Career-Center

In return we offer a competitive salary and benefits package and opportunity to work with a global flavour leader.

As an Equal Opportunities employer, McCormick is committed to a diverse workforce. 

Company

McCormick & Company, Incorporated is a global leader in flavour and one of the most respected and familiar names in the industry.

 Our UK business manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavourful products for retail outlets, food manufacturers, and foodservice businesses. We create flavours for a wide range of applications, such as beverages, snacks, dairy, bakery/confectionary, savoury, performance nutrition, and health.

 McCormick has had a presence in the UK for nearly 40 years. We have three sites across the country–our EMEA headquarters in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, our new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility and innovation centre in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire (which is on track to become McCormick’s first Net Zero carbon building), and our plant in Littleborough, Greater Manchester.

 Our brands and our products are trusted sources of flavour in millions of kitchens across the country—in homes and in restaurants. Our UK brand portfolio includes Schwartz, Frank’s RedHot, French’s, Cholula, Herdez, and OLD BAY.

Partnerships with farmers and suppliers around the world allow us to provide great-tasting, quality spices with consistency that you can trust. Our herbs and spices come from around 80 different countries.

 At McCormick, we stand together for the future of flavour, and we bring that commitment to work every day in the UK to deliver top-tier growth and quality from our global business.

 As a people-first culture, we encourage development in many ways, respect everyone’s differences and contributions, and do what’s right to develop our employees and to better our world.

 

Company info
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Location
Haddenham Business Park
Pegasus Way
Haddenham
Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire
HP17 8LB
United Kingdom

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