National Account Manager
Location: Home Based (Occasional Travel)
Salary: Pay Rate £28.33 Per Hour - £31.48
Contract: 12 Months
Job Description
I am working with one of the world’s leading and most well-known manufacturing brands. My client has a fantastic track record and reputation for innovation and quality with a real commitment to exploring and encouraging creativity.
Their commitment to quality, commitment to innovation and employee centric approach make them an excellent employee to work with and their reputation as an employer is every bit as strong as their reputation as a manufacturing company.
They are now looking for a National Account Manager to join their Consumer Business Group division in the Retail and Office Channel. This is an exciting opportunity to join the business and sell into major distributors and wholesalers nationwide.
As a Key Account Manager you will have an impact by:
* Manage national accounts within the UK&I Retail & Office sales channel.
* Lead emerging Retail accounts
* Collaborate with buyers, merchandisers & customer supply chain to drive incremental opportunities, delivering profitable sales growth
* Network across the different internal functions, shopper marketing, demand planning, customer service and the sales functions to align functions enabling internal and external objectives to be met
* Drive growth into the Retail & Office key accounts to achieve long-term sustainable success.
* Identify needs, articulate strong value propositions and meet customer requirements to promote solutions to achieve mutual satisfaction.
* Win incremental promotional space, list new products within the account base.
* Manage orders, pricing, customer queries to ensure my client are a proactive, collaborative partner to retailers who resolves any issues in a timely manner
Skills & Expertise
* Proven key account management experience preferably within the FMCG/Retail market
* Preferably a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
* Customer focused, ability to manage customer communication to deliver operational excellence
* Current, valid Driver’s License.
* Additional skills/qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include
* Problem solving
* Business development mindset.
* Exceptional communicator (local, regional, central functions)
* Ability to work across various functions to a shared goal
* Experience in building strong relationships with strategic customers.
Please note that this is a Nationwide, field based covering the whole of the UK.