National Account Manager - 9-12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Woking - Hybrid working with travel
Competitive salary, car allowance and excellent benefits package
Joining us as an interim National Account Manager you'll lead on the execution of the customer business plan to achieve and exceed annual targets. You’ll do this by utilising category and consumer insight to achieve key business targets and be accountable for the planning and delivery of a profitable growth plan with your customer. This is a key role within the wider commercial sales team, and you’ll manage a broad portfolio of branded products for the business within the Birds Eye, Aunt Bessie and Goodfella’s Pizza portfolios. In brief, you will be responsible for:
- Building partnerships with stakeholders to develop, manage & execute Joint Business Plans to achieve both your own and the customer’s Sales, Profit & Share targets. (Full P&L ownership)
- Work with internal & external customers to secure best in class visibility of our Brands.
- Ownership of the promotional strategy – utilising best practise in bringing together all 3 brands across categories to deliver the best offer for the Customer, Consumer and Birds Eye.
- Monitoring portfolio effectiveness via the company tool kit / reporting system and feed learnings into the category, RGM, customer marketing and customer finance teams.
- Own the day-to-day commercial relationship with the Buyers in your respective categories - this will also include some exposure to Senior Buying managers, and Category Directors.
About you…
We’re looking for an experienced Senior National Account Manager, ideally having account managed a national Top 4 retailer within a blue chip FMCG organisation. You’ll have a track record of maintaining and improving business relationships with those major customers, more then used to formulating and reviewing detailed business plans. We look for people who are focused on getting results, embrace learning and bring positive energy, combining initiative with a sense of teamwork and collaboration.
- A high degree of analytical skills, someone who can interpret data and use to a commercial advantage.
- P&L Analysis and course correction, you can see reality and take the appropriate decision/action decisively.
- Resilience and excellent negotiation skills in order to achieve mutually acceptable outcomes in often very demanding circumstances.
- Grocery experience with experience of both branded and own label business would be great, but you have a category and customer first mind-set.
- We are looking for a creative and growth mindset.
What we can offer you…
We’re on an exceptional adventure and offer a truly purpose led career and we aim to empower each employee and promote their personal growth all the while ensuring business needs are met now and into the future.
- An ambitious employer with recognized brands and growth potential
- A culture where your part of a team, where you feel encouraged to make a difference.
- The potential to progress your career across different areas of Birds Eye and Nomad Foods
Who are we…
This is a great time to join us! Birds Eye, owned by Nomad Foods, is the UK's no.1 branded frozen food company and is comprised of the Birds Eye, Goodfella's, Aunt Bessie's and Green Cuisine brands. Selling its first products in 1946, we have been providing high-quality frozen food for generations, and our iconic portfolio of fish, vegetable and chicken products now also includes a meat-free range, pizzas and roast joints and accompaniments. 2024 marks 100 years since our founder, Clarence Birdseye, invented the process behind frozen food as we know it today and we are immensely proud of our heritage as we continue to endeavour to serve the nation with better food, promoting the nutritional benefits and convenience of frozen food and the role it plays in helping reduce food waste.
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