Our client is a leading chilled food manufacturer based in the East Midlands who are looking to recruit a Commercial Manager to manage one of their QSR/Retail accounts. This is an exciting opportunity to work for a forward thinking company that offers excellent progression opportunities.
Key Requirements
- The Commercial Manager’s role will either be focusing on New Business or Direct Account Management of the QSR.Retail account (dependent on candidate)
- Day to day account management or New Business opportunities
- Tasked with increased sustainable sales growth across the agreed account portfolio
- Administration of new launches – Internal and external
- Attend weekly meetings to communicate customer activity to the wider business
- Communicate price changes to the business, through product activity forms and ensure price files are accurate and up to date
- Utilise Power BI to provide actionable reports / dashboard for customer with fast insights on category performance
- Analyse internal data to identify trends, issues and opportunities and communicate them to the commercial team in a timely manner
- Collate information onto the Sales & Operations tracker
- Ensure all activity is confirmed in a timely manner, working in conjunction with the Planning team to understand the timescales and any logistical challenges
- Update and maintain customer sales data and provide weekly insight
- Complete and update the weekly promotional discount trackers
- Maintain and update the commercial forecast across all sites
Person specification:
- Knowledge and Understanding - Knowledge and understanding of FMCG business
- Experience – previous account management experience within a comparable business
- Functional Skills – An excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Prior knowledge of Power BI
- Competencies – Need to demonstrate a number of competencies:
- strong analytical skills
- relationship building
- planning and organising
- good internal / external communication (verbal and via email)
- problem solving
For more information please get in touch or apply today with your CV