If you are ambitious, self-motivated, hardworking and a team player and interested in growing your career with an International FMCG business, please read through our job opportunity.
The key responsibilities include:
* Delivers budgeted customer Volume, NSV (Net Sales Value), and Margin for the Financial Year for relevant customer/s.
* Continuously takes ownership of customer product mix to drive improved profitability incorporating initiatives from other departments such as complexity reduction and cost of product recommendations.
* Takes responsibility for customer prices whilst following margin policies and aligning with financial approval matrix.
* Negotiates contracts involving subject matter experts in line with company’s governance.
* Manages tender(s).
* Evaluates on a monthly basis result vs. budget turnover, volume turnover and profit targets. Prepares contingency strategies to bridge gaps and recover any shortfalls.
* Develops and manages customer joint business plans where relevant, ensuring that these are aligned to business priorities.
* Collaborates and shares expertise with the Demand Planning team to ensure that the forecast is accurate and in line with the account target.
* Manages the relationships across multiple customer departments (commercial, technical, product development) to optimise results in a complex matrix structure.
* Is the McBride customer expert and acknowledged market expert, ensuring customer needs and requirements are effectively cascaded throughout the wider organisation to maximise the development of the customer relationship.
* Generates a key account plan where required in line with McBride's strategic long-term goals. This is broken down into short- / mid- / long-term actions and priorities.
* Promote continual improvement of processes with the internal account team to deliver commercial excellence.
* Initiates, leads collaborative, value-added customer specific projects in line with the customer defined strategy, utilising resource from across the business to maximise results.
* Monitors and pro-actively investigates the market (including competition), keep a market overview and initiates changes.
* Provides the Partnership Champion with all relevant information.
Technical Competencies:
The successful job holder must have advanced knowledge of the FMCG and retail market; negotiates effectively in a range of circumstances; understands and effectively utilises the process of selling; understands change management and is able to implement changes and developments in the organisation.
Behavioural Competencies:
The successful job holder will have exceptional selling skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels and in a variety of settings, building relationships with ease and doing so as part of a cross functional team and/or independently. The ability to influence others and resolve problems; make decisions; plan and organise effectively with a high level of commercial acumen.
Qualification(s) & Education:
* Bachelor up to Master / University degree in Business / Sales / Commercial or equal through experience
* Account management of a Major European Retailer; minimum of 3-year experience (required)
* Experience of selling Private Label / Value Brands (desirable)
* Experience of managing projects in the area of Sales (required)
* Experience and thorough ability to operate in a fast-paced environment (required)
* Extensive experience of working with or in manufacturing, supply chain or purchasing or marketing (required).