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SENIOR COMMERCIAL BUSINESS MANAGER

Employer
SmithCarey Recruitment
Location
Flexible, home based
Salary
Highly competitive package to attract the best talent
Closing date
29 Dec 2021

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

Job Details

SENIOR COMMERCIAL BUSINESS MANAGER
— FOOD B2B Meat, Poultry, Ready Meals & Food Manufacturers
Highly competitive package to attract the best talent
Flexible, home-based location

The company

MOGUNTIA Food Ingredients UK Ltd is a subsidiary of the Moguntia Food Group, a £150m, 4th-generation family business with over 100 years of seasonings, sauce and ingredient innovation, servicing the food industry. With sites in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the UK they are one of the UK's fastest growing manufacturers in the sector, with success built on customer focus, technical excellence and culinary flair.

In 2020 their Hetton site went through a significant investment programme, and a further £4m investment is committed to enlarge the site and enhance its capacity and capabilities.

The culture is team orientated, open and supportive with a ‘go out and show us what you can do’ approach that builds confidence, capability and a rewarding successful mantra.

The role

This is an exciting new opportunity to join a successful team in a broad-based commercial role with a substantial sales and profit major customer portfolio. It requires both leadership and support of a team member, as well as direct management of some major customer relationships at all management levels.

Supported by an outstanding team of colleagues across NPD, manufacturing, insight-driven marketing and culinary chefs, all focused on helping you shape added-value, bespoke food concept solutions that meet the needs of your customers and ultimately, their targeted consumers.

Reporting to the board, this senior role offers the commercial challenge and opportunity to have a key strategic input at both total market and customer level, where your thinking and ideas to drive additional profitable sales growth will be valued and fully supported. 

About you

You are an experienced B2B commercial professional, with a track record of delivering profitable sales growth selling food ingredients and/or food concepts into the major UK-based food manufacturers. With a strong understanding of the food manufacturer/Grocery Retailers NPD process and route-to-market dynamics, you are a natural in working cross-functionally, with a sharp, intelligent commercial mindset to both see and drive the big commercial opportunities.

Ambition is key here, as is your drive and determination to achieve both your business performance plans and personal career development goals up to future Director level.

If you feel you can match our shared ambition for growth and want to be both appreciated and rewarded for your commercial achievements, please get in touch by sending your CV together with benefits package details quoting reference MS/2262 to mark@smithcarey.co.uk. Or call Mark Smith for an informal initial discussion on 07747 847214.

All direct and third party applications will be forwarded to SmithCarey.

Closing date for applications:  29th December, 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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