National Account Manager- High Street and Specialist

Leeds Permanent View Job Description
Manage and Develop relationships with High street and Specialist retail customersDrive volume, distribution and profit within the account base
  • Global Consumer Business Based in Yorkshire
  • Exciting NAM Role

About Our Client

Global FMCG Business based in Yorkshire with a market leading Brand and fantastic reputation within the category.

Job Description

Main Responsibilities:

  • Serve as the primary contact for your customer, managing both immediate and long-term relationships
  • Develop and execute daily business plans, leveraging diverse solutions to maximise profits and minimise costs
  • Identify, manage, and deliver profitable solutions to commercial, operational, and seasonal challenges
  • Implement the internal annual operating plan, driving sales, profitability, and operational targets in collaboration with the customer. Develop recommendations to contribute to the trading and category vision
  • Support the delivery of high-level plans, contractual commitments, joint business plans (JBP), and overall business objectives
  • Influence cross-functional teams and represent customer needs internally
  • Lead weekly alignment meetings, post-implementation reviews, and update meetings with the support of the wider team
  • Assist in the development and mentoring of team members
  • Take responsibility for your own continuous personal development

The Successful Applicant

  • Previous experience of Account Management, skilled across new business and business development
  • Previous experience of successfully working with UK convenience retailers and have a proven successful track record of deliverables
  • You're a skilled, natural negotiator and story teller, leading customers and stakeholders through the journey with you
  • An ability to work accurately with numbers and data, evident in their interpretation and use when influencing your customer and stakeholders
  • Excellent working knowledge of the grocery retail market, alongside macro and micro influences impacting it
  • You're adept at relationship management and have great communication skills, which you are able to flex with your varied customer/stakeholders as necessary
  • A high level of commercial acumen, skilled with numbers and excellent attention to detail
  • Be comfortable dealing with ambiguity and making educated, speedy decisions with incomplete information



You are comfortable and confident working with Excel, PowerPoint and other relevant software and systems

What's on Offer

Competitive package and opportunity to join a dynamic and proactive sales team.

Contact
Stephanie Lidster
Quote job ref
JN-102024-6563317
Phone number
+44 113 388 9077

Job summary

Job function
Sales
Subsector
FMCG & Consumer
Sector
FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods)
Location
Leeds
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
Stephanie Lidster
Consultant phone
+44 113 388 9077
Job reference
JN-102024-6563317