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National Account Manager - M&S

Michael Page Sales
Posted a day ago, valid for a month
Location

Leeds, West Yorkshire LS14 1DZ

Salary

£30,000 - £36,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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Sonic Summary

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  • The role involves managing the M&S, International, and Ocado accounts while driving volume, sales, and distribution within these accounts.
  • Candidates should have previous experience in account management and executing commercial contracts, ideally with a national retailer, along with a strong understanding of the retail environment.
  • The position offers a competitive salary, along with benefits such as 26 days of holiday, an annual bonus scheme, and flexible working opportunities.
  • Successful candidates will be adept at relationship management, possess excellent negotiation skills, and be comfortable working with numbers and data.
  • This role is ideal for individuals with a minimum of two years of relevant experience who are looking for exciting career opportunities within a global FMCG business.
  • 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

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.