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INTERIM COMMERCIAL MANAGER

Employer
SmithCarey Recruitment
Location
Gloucestershire
Salary
Competitive salary + bonus, car allowance & benefits
Closing date
22 Oct 2021

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

Job Details

INTERIM COMMERCIAL MANAGER
Agile office / home working
Competitive salary + bonus, car allowance & benefits

The Company

An opportunity to give your career the best possible boost with excellent future development prospects in a hugely supportive environment, as part of an ambitious organisation growing great brands.

Our client is a highly successful division of a major FMCG company operating across a number of diverse categories. The division has a strong presence in the grocery, household and healthcare categories with market-leading brands. Still proudly privately owned and entrepreneurial, they remain committed to strengthening their presence further in the FMCG sector.

The Role

Our client is seeking a Commercial Manager to join them for a 12-month period to cover maternity. Reporting to the Business Unit Controller, this role is high profile and will have a broad remit. You will be the key link between the brand owner, sales team and customers. You will build a strong relationship with the brand owner and create a three-year strategic plan between both parties. You will influence and implement the strategic plans across all customers and channels. Your role will manage promotional and NPD briefings to the sales team. You will also manage the promotional and pricing controls and challenge the sales forecasts. This is an exciting and challenging role that requires strong commercial acumen, clear strategic thinking and a proven track record of driving profitable growth.

About You

Are you a National Account Manager / Market Strategy Planning Manager finishing an interim contact and ready to consider your next opportunity? Or has your role been affected by Covid and you are looking for your next position and would consider a fixed term 12-month contract? The ideal candidate will be available to start end of October / early November.

This is a pivotal role in the team and to succeed you must bring strategic thinking to a dynamic business unit and be an integral stakeholder between the brand owner, sales, finance and supply chain. You are persuasive, analytical and highly commercial. You are a highly ambitious, driven individual with a personal style. FMCG experience is essential and confectionery / impulse category experience would be an added advantage.

If you think you’ve got what it takes and are ultimately keen to develop your career with a leading, growing FMCG company then please apply online, or email your CV to Maria Murphy at mariam@smithcarey.co.uk, quoting reference number MM/2232.

Closing Date for applications:  22nd October 2021

Company

As specialists in Sales & Marketing Recruitment and Training, SmithCarey Ltd have extensive knowledge and experience of the FMCG market and all trade channels from the recruitment and corporate perspective, which together with face-to-face contact ensures that we understand both our clients and candidates needs. We are fully committed to building long-term client and candidate relationships based on trust and results, which ensures candidates can effectively manage their ‘career road map’ and get the right job, not just any job, as well as ensuring our clients select the best talent.

We are passionate and committed to helping ambitious, commercial talent achieve their potential in some of food and drink’s most progressive and respected companies.

Our services at SmithCarey embrace retained recruitment consultancy, interim management and training, with our FMCG clients ranging from major bluechips to medium and small companies across food, drink and non-food, branded and own label.

Spanning both the corporate and the recruitment viewpoint, our Consultants have an outstanding track record of knowledge and experience in the FMCG market – specifically Sales & Marketing, including; National Account Management, Category Management, Customer Marketing, Shopper Marketing, Field Sales, International Sales Management and Brand Marketing.

We take our relationship with you, the candidate - and you, the client - very seriously. What you can expect from us is honest advice and real assistance at an individual level. We understand your concerns, we can get on your wavelength, and we can produce the results you want – be it a major career move to steer you in the right direction with your future ‘career road map’ or simply some welcome guidance and support.

The SmithCarey team are passionate in their belief that companies who want to attract top talent need to invest and take a more proactive approach, even before vacancies arise, by creating an employer branding talent attraction strategy. We have invested heavily in both resource and new technology to embrace the LinkedIn/Facebook generation, through social networking tools and other media.

Everything we do is done with passion, professionalism and integrity. We operate with strict confidentiality and never send out CVs without prior consent, recommend candidates without thorough screening or market false positions to attract response.

Our message to people who have the drive and energy to be a success is to come and talk to us. We can help by advising you what’s out there, provide support with your ‘career roadmap’ for how you might progress, together with advice on how to make it happen and, who knows, we might have the perfect position for you right now!

Take a look at our current opportunities; then email with a covering letter, stating your current remuneration package and a copy of your CV to one of our Consultants.

For Recruitment:

Mark Smith - mark@smithcarey.co.uk - mobile 07747 847214

Maria Murphy – mariam@smithcarey.co.uk – mobile 07745 184922

For Training:

Paul Carey - paul@smithcarey.co.uk – mobile 07786 745165

Or for any other general enquiries call 01488 649360 or email: directors@smithcarey.co.uk or visit our website www.smithcarey.co.uk

We look forward to helping you manage your future ‘career road map’ and assisting you in building a successful Sales or Marketing career in the exciting world of FMCG.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01488 649 360
Location
SmithCarey Limited
PO Box 735
Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire
PE29 9PH
United Kingdom

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