National Account Manager

National Account Manager Job in Widnes

You’re experienced in the FMCG industry, and want to be part of a company who look for innovation and encourage creativity. You’re not looking for a corporate environment, but an entrepreneurial one. You thrive working on projects, looking at commercials, while working in tandem with product development teams to bring new products to market while driving business growth.

You’re not necessarily unhappy in your current role, but you want to be in a business where you can lead from the front, and work with major retailers and names in FMCG. As National Account Controller, you will get to do that.

What you’ll be doing as National Account Manager:

• Much of this role will be introducing and maximising sales of your product category into target grocery and retail accounts. You will also work on existing projects and have exposure to managing existing accounts
• You will be working independently alongside a pre-set sales strategy to achieve account-specific budgets and creating customer-specific sales plans and strategies ensuring ensure costings are pre-checked and spec, packaging and recommended retail prices are correct
• You will develop an understanding of customer KPIs, and targets and review performance, with knowledge and proposals to reach category standards
• Deliver value, gross margin & volume targets for your customers
• Assigning, monitoring and coordinating project milestones and progress
• Lead and plan the implementation of the project (resource, relationship, allocation)
• Manage high volume SKU level CPA's (over 200 SKUs in totality)

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience dealing with major retailers such as Tesco, M&S, Sainsburys or similar
• Experience with working with new product development teams
• FMCG product industry experience

What’s in it for you as National Account Manager?

Exposure to the top retailers and grocers in the country, and the ability to work creatively across product ranges and be instrumental in the continued growth of the business. You’ll have a great work/life balance and work with some amazing products!

Details for the National Account Manager package:

• £5,000 car allowance
• Annual company bonus
• 25 days holiday per annum, increasing to 27 days after 3 years’ service and 30 days after 5 years’ service
• Extensive benefits programme including buying additional holiday, medical cash plan, access to mental health support and many other benefits
• Flexible hours and work from home available to all staff
• Great learning and development and progression opportunities
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Pension Scheme Contribution
• Social events run by our inhouse Social Team
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Dress down Fridays

If you are interested in this National Account Manager job in Christchurch, please click 'apply now’, or give us a call and ask for Suzi. We will discuss your experience in more detail, give you more insight into the role and company and put forward an application on your behalf. When it comes to interviews, this will be a two stage face to face process and we will of course give you help and guidance along the way.