National Account Manager- Amazon
- Employer
- Michael Page Sales
- Location
- England
- Salary
- car, pension, healthcare and bonus
- Closing date
- 27 Oct 2021
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- Business Sector
- Non Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Sales
Job Details
National Account Manager required for Global Consumer Business to manage the Amazon account.
Client Details
My client is a growing and dynamic Global Consumer business who have experienced rapid growth in the UK, and are now in excess of £200m turnover, with plans to double this by 2024.
Description
Key Responsibilities of the role:
- Develop and implement the long-term business strategies, to achieve sales and profit targets within the Amazon account.
- Broaden the business opportunities by investigating and developing, as appropriate, all options for route to market.
- Manage business partnerships both current and new to seek out opportunities.
- Manage support to the sales channel through sales promotions, marketing initiatives and training.
- Provide and continually update sales forecasts. Communicate this information to product management to support purchasing and stock planning.
- Maintain an accurate awareness and working knowledge of stock levels.
- To present activity and performance results at sales meetings. Communicate new ideas to maximise sales and profit and brand awareness.
- Discuss with Senior Management creative ways of using additional funding for channel development.
- Report current pricing and product trend information and work with company management to formulate new strategies.
- Attend Brand and Industry focused Trade shows.
Profile
You will have a strong background working at National Account Manager Level within a consumer-focused business.
You will have proven success in building strong relationships and negotiating with Amazon as a key account, in addition to:
- An excellent understanding of Amazon with proven capability to manage the daily changes of an online retailer
- Excellent commercial and account management skills
- Ability to build strong relationships with internal and external customers at multiple levels
- Ability to negotiate with customers to achieve objectives
- Experience of using market & consumer insight to deliver commercial benefits
- Strong analytical skills and able to interpret complex data
- Good commercial acumen & commercial understanding of other business functions
Job Offer
Competitive Package and opportunity to work for Dynamic and Growing Consumer business with a fantastic and supportive culture and team.
Company
Michael Page Sales UK is a leading professional recruitment consultancy covering permanent, interim and contract recruitment. We have UK wide coverage with ten offices located in London, Weybridge, Reading, Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester, St Albans, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow. The core markets we serve are Consumer, Business Services, Media, IT/Telco, Financial Services, Healthcare and Technical Sales, with a dedicated person or team in each location specialising in each of these sectors. The clients we work with are as diverse as the candidates we represent; from Blue Chips to SMEs, and Sales Execs to Sales Directors. Our Consultants are typically from relevant sales backgrounds giving first hand experience of the roles we recruit for. We pride ourselves on delivering unrivalled service levels to our candidates and our clients, our track record of success over the past 20 years means we stand out.
Within our Consumer Sales Division we have consultants within each of the 10 offices who dedicate themselves to this sector and no other. Our specialist capability is demonstrated further as we focus on sub sectors such as food, drink, household, foodservice, consumer electronics, apparel, health & beauty, consumer healthcare, pet and sports. Some of our key clients include Colgate, Beiersdorf, Dr Oetker, Johnson & Johnson, Matthew Clark, PZ Cussons, Kellogg’s, 2 Sisters, Samsung, Seven Seas, Twinings, Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, SC Johnson, Warburtons, InBev, Kettle Chips, Hallmark, Luxottica, McCain, Britvic, General Mills, and Molson Coors to name but a few!
Michael Page Sales UK is part of Michael Page International with operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. As well as looking for high quality candidates for our clients, we are also always looking for top talent to work for us
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