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The Opportunity: Maternity cover - Sales Executive for Roberts Bakery 1887 Limited
Job Purpose: Support the Biscuits channel sales team to achieve stretching commercial targets, by supporting the NAM community administratively to deliver against the key objectives on time and in full.
What you will contribute:
* Responsible for delivery for product launch with the Retail customers via set up of all new line forms in time and accurately for all new product launches.
* Work collaboratively with Internal teams to ensure EDI / ordering / customer service teams / depot set ups - ensure when orders arrive, they are right first time.
* Effective management of Independent Customers acting as their point of contact for the biscuit business, ensuring GSV, volume and margin targets are achieved and identify opportunities for the company to profitably grow.
* Support the NAM community in the completion of customer administration error free and on time. Work with supply chain at the retailers
* Report on daily and weekly orders and corrective actions with supply chain.
* First commercial point of contact with Supply Chain and Planning to understand shorts / lates and work cross functionally to resolve.
* Ensure samples are delivered to customers on time for product submission by working with Innovation.
* General support of all ad hoc requests within the biscuits team that arise.
* Comfortable verbally presenting information to customers independently.
What you will bring:
* 1+ yrs experience of working within a commercial / supply chain environment. Demonstrates a good understanding and has worked with retail stakeholders to be able to work autonomously in this area confidently.
* Attention to detail.
* Ability to work under pressure, with day-to-day changes / challenges.
* Confident on SAP if not demonstrate confidence on using systems to retrieve data.
* Ideally knowledge of FMCG retail supplier systems i.e. Sainsburys Togtherwith, Tesco Connect, Waitrose MDM etc.
* Can do attitude and a desire to support the commercial community to deliver against stretching KPIs
* Ability to manage time effectively and influence to ensure multiple objectives are met on time and error free.
* Ability to engage external and internal stakeholders to deliver against Retail Sales channel objectives.
* Use of category data would be beneficial and demonstrates the ability to convert data into PPT insight.
* Experience in analysing and interpreting data from a range of sources to create one truth is essential. Candidate must be inquisitive to understand what data/research is telling us and why it matters to Roberts Bakery.
* Project and Time management is an essential skill for this role.