National Account Manager Grocery High Street (Remote)

National Account Manager Grocery High Street | World of Sweets |Worldwide

Join the dynamic team at World of Sweets, the UK’s leadingconfectionery distributor, where we believe that work should be sweet assugar!

National Account Manager Grocery High Street | World of Sweets | Worldwide

Join the dynamic team at World of Sweets, the UK’s leading confectionery distributor, where we believe that work should be sweet as sugar!

Our extensive range includes branded chocolates, novelty confectionery, American candy and wholesale pick and mix and we’re passionate about meeting our customers’ needs and working as a team to grow our business. If you’re looking for a sweet opportunity to make an impact in an ambitious company that’s built its way up from humble beginnings, you could be the person we’re looking for!

We are currently looking to recruit a National Account Manager for our Grocery and High Street channel. This home based National Account Manager will join our commercial sales team and support in the ongoing growth of our business. Reporting to the National Account Controller, the role is highly customer orientated and will be responsible for developing account specific plans and demonstrating market insight within the customer base. The successful person must be competent in developing strong relationships both internally and externally with the customer base, in order to ensure the customers’ needs are met.

Key responsibilities for our National Account Manager will include:

Ownership for exceeding sales and gross margin for portfolio of national accounts
Working alongside Commercial Finance review P&L and pull on the right levers to drive profitable growth (i.e. terms, promotional support, base product performance, distribution and NPD)
Full KPI and P&L responsibility
Working cross functionally with Marketing and Supply Chain to launch best in class Customer sell ins and NPD launches
Manage relationships internally and externally to ensure we put customers at the heart of our planning and execution
Work collaboratively with the Sales Controllers to develop account strategy which create win wins for World of Sweets and our Customers
Working with the Marketing and Product teams identify new opportunities that are right for the consumer, customer and World of Sweets
Lead the cross functional agenda across supply chain and sales to ensure we deliver on commercial activities in line with customer agreements and facilitate/coordinate external responses and resolutions to service failures and shortages
Maintain external awareness of markets, products, processes, competitors
Drive regular contact strategy with external customers; presenting core range, NPD, seasons, concept development and innovation
Coordinate and participate in customer projects, consolidating cross-functionally; operations, supply chain, commercialisation etc

Who should apply?

For our National Account Manager role, we are looking for an individual who has experience of working within a similar role (ideally within the FMCG sector or similar). You will have a passion for building long lasting relationships with both your internal and external stakeholders and have a proven track record of growing current sales and building new opportunities within your accounts. This role is home based with travel required to customers based throughout the UK.

A car/car allowance will accompany the role along with the opportunity to receive a bonus; the value of which is dependent on the team achieving targets. All other benefits and package details will be discussed at interview.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, World of Sweets is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join World of Sweets.

Support from recruitment agencies not required thank you.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £40,000.00-£50,000.00 per year

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