About the role
Make our journey, your journey
To be every chef’s first choice for fresh ingredients is the vision and passion of everyone who works here. And our journey to become the natural first choice means we have to have the best people in the right roles doing a great job every day. As an Account Manager, you’ll focus on maintaining and enhancing the relationships of our portfolio of existing business and support the drive to expand through new business success. This is a role where fresh thinking will deliver results and where people skills are high priority.
About the role
This role balances commerciality, planning, relationship skills and problem-solving. Building a close-relationship with your Business Development Manager is key to helping identify opportunities to support the ever-changing needs of customers and develop our new business strategy. This is a role focused on business and personal growth. And your passion for success will find a natural home in a business that thrives on shared achievement. If you can plan, prepare, question, implement and measure tactics to build the Bidfresh footprint, talk to us.
Skills and experience
You’re a blend of people person and robust planner. You can question in the right way and your straightforward and clear approach will build trust with every colleague and customer. Ideally, you’ll have Sales/Service experience in the food industry. You’re used to, and thrive on, targets. And your communication skills – both written and verbal are second to none. And you’ll know that the right tone on a telephone call can spark interest and lead to opportunity. You take responsibility for your workload and build trust through accountability.
This position is also open to school leavers who are keen, enthusiastic and willing to learn as on the job training is provided.
About us
The Bidfresh journey
We’re Bidfresh. A fast growing team of fresh food experts in a collection of regional businesses across the UK. We’re a big business with big ambitions. We succeed by focusing on the detail. By going the extra mile to find the best products. By building relationships with our partners. And by going further to support our teams to develop and grow. Our work is full of excitement, care and a big sense of achievement. And our ‘Fresh’ values guide the way. Make our journey, your journey, and take your first small steps towards a big career adventure.
Rewards and benefits
We’ve created a benefits package that is designed to support you and reward your hard work. Every employee (subject to completion of probation) is automatically entitled to:
* Discounts: Save on Bidfresh products, high street shopping, travel, and cinema tickets
* Free parking: Free parking at our sites
* Health care cash plan: Access to a health care cash plan
* Confidential support and counselling: Access to free confidential support and counselling
* Pension scheme: Access to a pension scheme
* A minimum of 28 days holiday entitlement