National Account Manager
Head Office - Wonderfield Group
Contract: Full Time
Salary: 45,000-50,000
Contracted Hours: 40
The Wonderfield Group has recently been purchased by Zensho Holdings, the leading food service company in Japan with a market cap of $5.5b and whose aim is to become the worlds largest food company, a position from which we can eradicate hunger and poverty from around the globe. We operate restaurants, factories, and thousands of sushi kiosks and have recently built a successful cut fruit business, Snowfruit. Combining this with the three businesses previously owned by Zensho, AFC, Sushi Circle and Sushi Take, results in annual sales of $2.5b and Ebitda in excess of $140m a year with an ambitious growth trajectory.
Ideally, you’ll already have the following Key Experience:
You don’t need a huge amount of experience to thrive in this role.
If you’ve worked in field sales or in a sales executive role for a small business, that’s absolutely relevant and could be a great fit.
What matters most is that you’re driven, commercially minded, and genuinely passionate about food.
You have a winning mentality, strong commercial awareness, and a high level of integrity.
Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to interpret data and market trends effectively.
Experience working towards targets, with confidence in tracking, analysing, and reporting performance.
A high level of English, along with strong IT literacy and numerical skills.
Ideally, you’ll already have the following Key Behaviours:
• You have a ‘Guest First’ approach and contact all prospective leads with professionalism and enthusiasm.
• You will be highly organised with the ability to work multiple workloads at any time.
• You have meticulous attention to detail and deliver work to a high standard.
• You are a confident self-starter with strong presenting and negotiation skills.
• You thrive working to a deadline, are self-driven and performance orientated.
• You are a strong communicator who is comfortable collaborating and building partnerships across the business and external partners at all levels
As a National Account Manager you’ll be an ambitious self-starter, passionate about maximising sales opportunities, so the business achieves its commercial goals. You will act as an ambassador, promoting our brands, formats and channels to existing and potential clients, always on the look-out for new opportunities to drive sales and for more people to enjoy our restaurants and kiosks.
You will nurture and develop opportunities in order to drive revenue nationally as well as from local and regional markets. You will utilise sales and marketing tactics effectively to drive demand during need periods. This will be primarily through proactively increasing the share and profitability of existing accounts and securing new business across all market segments, by researching and targeting business in competitor venues, both locally and nationally.
‘Own it’ we empower our Teams to be courageous and confident in their work, to take the initiative and always be accountable.
Key Accountabilities:
• You will own and deliver the sales strategy for all brands, formats and channels.
• You will develop and execute comprehensive sales and marketing strategies to enhance revenue streams and maximise profitability through crea