Senior National Account Manager – Top 4 Grocer - Homebased

Package: Competitive salary, car allowance, company performance related bonus (paid out the last 4 years), 25 days holiday (plus option to buy an extra 5 days), single private healthcare cover plus many more great benefits.

Location: Role can be homebased, depending on distance based from our Head Office in St Albans. With a view that you’d be able to be onsite in Head Office a number of times a month. However if you live close to St Albans we’d love to see you more often.

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, 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).

We’ve built a great culture at Burton’s Biscuits, which is why we have a score of 4.7 out of 5 on Glassdoor, not to brag but we’re a better place to work than Google! Take a look at our Glassdoor page to see what our employees are saying.

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.

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?

About the Opportunity…

You will take the lead on one of our top 4 Mults accounts and oversee a smaller retailer which is managed by a NAM.

You will work across branded (70%) and private label (30%). Looking after a portfolio worth circa £15 million, you’ll play a key role in driving new opportunities across the sweet & savoury biscuit category, along with gaining new listings through NPD.

Don’t worry, you won’t have to do all this yourself, as you’ll have great Innovation, R&D, Finance and Category & Insights teams around you.

What are the key ingredients…

You will need to have experience leading on a top 4 mult account and ideally with some direct line management responsibility as you will have 1 direct report (although this is something we are happy to teach and help you develop),

You will be in charge of a full P&L, you’ll need to have experience of looking after your own numbers including forecasting & promotions.

Ability & experience in driving NPD to leverage new opportunities and gain new listings within stores and be able to interpret key category & insights data is key, as you’ll need to ensure the account is driven in the right direction both internally & externally, to do this you will need to have strong influencing, negotiating and presentation skills.

It is highly desirable to have experience & knowledge of both branded and Private Label.

Don’t worry if you haven’t had experience as a Senior National Account Manager, this role will be fantastic progression for NAM looking for a new challenge.

If you are looking for a new challenge in a fun, fast paced and progressive business then we have the opportunity for you!!

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.

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