National Account Manager

National Account Manager

As a UK-based food family business, they focus on delivering high-quality baked and convenience foods to the retail market. The company has grown through innovation, strong partnerships, and a commitment to quality and customer service. With operations supported across Europe, it combines traditional expertise with a modern approach to meet ever changing consumer demand.

About the National Account Manager job

The purpose of your role will be to manage several customer accounts within the Commercial Team. The role includes overseeing a main account alongside developing smaller growth accounts, collaborating with marketing to drive brand visibility and align promotions, and working with Product Development and Quality teams to manage own-label products. We are looking to fill this role quickly to support the needs of the business.

Key tasks

Work closely with customers to agree and deliver annual business plans whilst building strong and trusted relationships with key contacts and grow your network.

Deliver effective trade marketing campaigns and increase brand visibility within customer accounts.

Manage own-label products by using strong commercial knowledge and attention to detail.

Analyse sales and customer data to track performance, review promotions, and improve product margins.

Manage account budgets and profit and loss performance and proactively identify developing new business opportunities to support long-term growth and create accurate sales forecasts and reports.

About You

The successful candidate shall have at least 5 years’ experience within FMCG account management, this experience is essential. Experience within the grocery sector would be highly advantageous.

The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, proactive, and confident in developing new business opportunities. They should be a quick learner with a positive, can-do attitude and strong communication skills.

Applicants should also have excellent analytical and numerical abilities, strong attention to detail, and the ability to be credible, persuasive, and determined in a commercial environment.

Strong IT skills, particularly in Excel, are also required.

More details

The

National Account Manager job (ref

9058) is paying £45,000 - £60,000 DOE plus up to 10% discretionary annual performance bonus based on delivery on KPIs.

This is a hybrid role working from home Monday and Friday, then Wednesday to Thursday on site - you will therefore need to be commutable to North West London.

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