Account Manager
- Employer
- Advocate Group
- Location
- Preston, Lancashire
- Salary
- circa £35,000
- Closing date
- 24 Jun 2021
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- Business Sector
- Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Sales
Job Details
12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Job Title: Account Manager
Salary: circa £35,000
Location: Preston
Are you a talented, customer-focussed Account Manager with a high degree of ambition, drive, sales acumen, thoroughness and accuracy of information?
Then this Account Manager role is for you!
You will join a heritage, leading European business who are a high-volume, full service, customer brand manufacturer with a collaborative, family-feel and team-oriented environment.
You will be an experienced, commercially astute Account Manager with an established relationship management capability.
This role will be to manage 3 large accounts with a turnover of £30m and to develop the relationship and grow sales, including the margin of the joint businesses through management of the current range and proactive management of range lifecycle, NPD, Forecast, Promotional plans, Pricing and Discontinuations.
Ideally you will have experience managing grocer accounts such as Asda and Aldi.
Please send your CV to Sophie Thomas on sophie.thomas@advocate-group.co.uk or call on 020 7871 8000.
Company
We are a leading recruitment partner to the FMCG and consumer product sectors. Brand advocate representation, with a focus on inclusive hiring, is central to our ethos and ethics.
As talent partner to some of the most exciting global names, innovators, and challenger brands, we have a proven track record of not only sourcing top talent, but improving employer brand, candidate journey, and talent acquisition strategies. Our specialist consultants plug directly into your brand to act as your talent team, or work alongside your existing talent function.
Being consumer product-centric means that our candidate and client partners can draw on our deep networks, proven processes, and highly trained talent specialists.
Our aim is to: identify, engage, assess, and provide exceptional consumer product talent, always with the candidate journey at the forefront of mind.
What Do We Offer?
- 3:1 interview-to-placement ratio.
That means that, for every three candidates we have out on interview, one is getting the job.
- 96% employee retention.
Our retention rate is market leading – 96% of the people that we place are still with that organisation at least 12 months later.
- 92% right-first-time shortlists.
Of the placements we make in roles that we work exclusively (which is the vast majority), 92% are hired from our hired from our first shortlist.
- 28 days average time to hire.
From briefing to offer, our average turnaround time is 28 days.
Our Recruitment Solutions:
Search & Selection | Project Recruitment | Embedded Talent | Executive Search | Contract Recruitment | Market Mapping
Contact Us Today to Discuss Your Next Recruitment Project:
📞 0333 772 7200
📩 workwithus@advocate-group.co.uk
💻 https://www.advocate-group.co.uk/
- Website
- http://www.advocate-group.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 0333 772 7200
- Location
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The Advocate Group
No. 1 Spinningfields, WeWork
Quay Street
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M3 3JE
GB
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