* Competitive Basic Salary
* Discretionary Annual Bonus
* Developing national accounts across grocery/wholesale channels
* Work with Head of Retail to develop joined up strategy.
* Pension
* Excellent Development Opportunities
* Free on-site parking
* Hybrid working
Commercial Manager role for an international food business, the company has an established dairy free brand that is in wide distribution both in domestic & export markets. You will currently be a National Account Manager or Commercial Manager with strong experience of working in food & drink with major grocery accounts.
About the Role:
* You’ll be responsible for developing joint business plans with your accounts to develop business growth.
* Work closely with all your internal key stakeholders in Marketing, Customer Marketing and Supply Chain to ensure the smooth running of your plans.
* You will have responsibility for your own budgets and P&L and will be constantly auditing your own performance against both company and personal targets.
* Responsibility for controlling budgets and your own promotional targets and to work towards the commercial plan with your team and mentors.
* Working with your buyers to achieve excellent customer working relationships and to maximise opportunities by creating cross-functional affinities between these stakeholders.
* Constantly looking for additional opportunities, being smart to ad-hoc promotions.
* Keeping up to date with implementation of agreed promotions and marketing.
* Primarily office based in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. We would expect the candidate to live within a commutable distance (circa 50-mile radius).
About You:
* You’ll be able to demonstrate strong commerciality and previous experience of working with buyers at a national level.
* Understanding of how joint business planning works alongside strong category management.
* Proven track record in achieving success in negotiations within your current business.
* Understand how brand marketing, category management and supply chain will all impact on your role.
* Be able to think strategically with strong planning and forecasting.
* Understanding managing your own budgets and P&L.
* Excellent written and verbal communication.
* Commercially and analytically aware, able to make sound commercial decisions based on data evaluation.
* Excel competence is a must with understanding of retail portal systems a bonus.
* As the role requires attendance of remote meetings the candidate must be a car owner with a full driving licence.
* There will also be a requirement to travel as and when required as there is an expectation that the portfolio of clients will include a mix of domestic & export accounts.
Closing date for applications is Friday 1st November 2024 - Strictly no agencies.