Job Description
National Account Manager - Boots
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: Competitive
Contract: Permanent
We are looking for a National Account Manager - Boots to join our UK team at our Mayborn HQ to look after our Baby Speciality channel, particularly focusing on Boots.
In this role, you will be responsible for full P&L ownership across several of our retailers in the baby specialty channel. You will be managing accounts, working closely with internal and external stakeholders to develop and implement robust commercial plans. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a background in retail who is eager to further develop their skill set and take on more responsibility.
You will also need to be a core advocate for our Mayborn values; proactively turning them into reality within the office environment
What you will be doing:
* Creating and developing commercials plans that are aligned to our global & regional strategy
* Full P&L ownership within our retail channel with key delivery of top-line sales and profit for your categories to accelerate market share
* Managing relationships and building long-term partnerships with internal and external stakeholders
* Implementation of the Tommee Tippee strategy across the retail market supported by execution and in-store activation
* Plan, develop, agree and implement an annual Joint Business Plan with each retailer, activating contingency plans where necessary
* Agree promotional forecast with Demand Planning to support the achievement of annual promotional plans and objectives
* Agree monthly promotional plans with customers, including secondary sites, trade marketing collaboration and online support
* Collating, probing & integrating data to support your commercial plans
* Proactively serving up solutions to live challenges
* Promotional Evaluation Form (PEF) completion & the ‘so what’ on evaluation
* Account promotional form submission
* Central UK promotional calendar management
* Purchase order (PO) raising
* P&L ownership within our retail channel with key delivery or top-line sales and profit for your categories to accelerate market share
* Ad hoc reporting using the Insights platform for forecasting, availability, sales and trends data
* Collaboration with other support functions to resolve issues as directed
* Website and in-store activation audits – developing internal relationships with global & regional digital & marketing teams for imagery, videos etc for launch, or identifying gaps to existing range
What skills and experiences you’ll need to ace this job:
* Experience in customer relationship management skills are essential including managing complex JBPs.
* Experience working to manage Boots as an account
* Experience in account management or other commercial management experience in retail markets would be a bonus, particularly grocery retailers
* Commercially minded
* Data driven
* Valid driver’s license with a good driving record
* Well organised and able to multi-task
* Excellent communication skills and a sense of fun
* Flexibility to travel within the UK as required
* Good with basic Microsoft packages; Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
If this sounds like an exciting opportunity for you, please apply online. Any queries can be directed to Luke at largent@mayborngroup.com or James Davison at jdavison@mayborngroup.com