National Account Manager - M&S
- Employer
- Michael Page Sales
- Location
- England, West Yorkshire, Leeds
- Salary
- car, bonus, pension
- Closing date
- 26 Nov 2024
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- Business Sector
- Non Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Sales
Job Details
- Manage the M&S, International and Ocado Accounts
- Drive volume, sales and distribution within accounts
Client Details
Global FMCG Business based in Yorkshire with market leading brand and exciting NPD offering great career opportunities.
Description
- Be known as the lead go to and manage the relationship with your customer and their retail contacts.
- Developing a working knowledge of your retailer's goals and strategies to maximise opportunities, influence decision making and factor into the planning process.
- Execute the commercial contract day to day whilst levering varied solutions to maximize performance and identify opportunities.
- Identify, manage and deliver profitable solutions to commercial, operational and seasonal challenges
- Identifying solutions to minimise product wastage, developing recommendations to feed in to the trading and category vision, point of sale and in store sales plan
- Champion your business area and influence cross functional teams to win with the customer and deliver the plan - CDP management and in store activity (eg. field merchandising, creative, product development and finance)
Profile
- Previous experience of Account Management and executing commercial contracts, ideally with a national retailer
- Be comfortable working in collaboration with product development to deliver range excellence for the retailer
- Great knowledge of the retail environment and how to drive compliance to importance of adhering to critical path timelines
- Experience of using your excellent negotiation and influencing skills to find commercial solutions to planned and unplanned problems
- To be well versed with numbers and data, naturally evident in your skilled interpretation and use when influencing your customer and stakeholders including sales, service levels, customer and market
- To be a natural people person, adept at relationship management and have great communication skills which you flex to win over your customer/stakeholder base
Job Offer
- Competitive salary
- 26 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Annual bonus scheme
- Health cashback scheme
- Pension benefit
- Flexible working opportunities including working from home opportunities
- Free onsite parking for when you are in the office
- A variety of other cultural and lifestyle benefits, aimed at promoting a positive work/life balance
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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