Department: Commercial
Reporting to: National Account Manager
Location: Christchurch, UK, Flexibility to work from home up to 3 days per week*
Role Overview
This is a great opportunity for a bright, driven and enthusiastic account executive who is looking for a career with excellent progression. We are looking for a proactive, commercially minded individual who can build lasting relationships, knows how to prioritise, learn quickly, and be open to a challenge – previous experience in a similar role with a passion for sales, FMCG or retail would be advantageous.
Duties and Responsibilities Include:
* To drive sales with an allocated account base, maximising Solent’s profitability
* Daily contact with the account base
* Providing constant market information to assigned accounts
* Report and analysis of accounts’ progress using validated sales data
* To oversee and ensure accurate orders, invoicing and stock management on your account base
* Work with internal buying teams and external manufacturers to secure ranging and price negotiations
* Dealing with any account issues with your national account manager
* Fulfilment of POS
* Manage customer awareness of issues, which may affect delivery of goods and services
* Work with supply chain teams to ensure delivery dates are met for account intake plans and the ability to manage critical timelines
* Work with internal departments to ensure all areas of the account are being run effectively and projects are within timeline
* Update your team on problems or issues solved and actions taken on accounts
* Ability to travel in the UK and abroad
* Ability to take ownership of projects with tight deadlines and ensuring all stakeholders are completing task in full
* The ability to effectively manage multiple tasks and stakeholders is essential
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