Location
Glasgow | United Kingdom
Job description
Protea Recruitment is working with a well-known Food manufacturer in Glasgow who is looking for an Account Manager to join their team.
Title: Account Manager
Location : Glasgow
Salary: Up to £45k
Other: Monday to Friday Office Based
The main function is to manage sales and relationships with particular customers to deliver target volume and
range and grow our business, supporting the achievement of strategic goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver clients sales targets for specified account(s)
- Develop and
maintain relationships with your focus customer(s), selling-in and delivering a
brilliant JBP whilst maintaining the clients strategic position
- Own and manage
the demand forecast for your account(s), working collaboratively with purchasing
and supply to ensure availability
- Feed back
customer insights to the business and deliver performance course-correcting
plans
- Manage and
maintain customer knowledge data and admin
- Negotiate the
annual business plan with key customer contacts and support the plan implementation,
following up corrective action as required
- Monitor and
evaluate performance reviews against customer expectations on a regular basis –
Account KPIs
- Complete the
annual budget and profit business plans
- Support RBU
Director, by proposing promotion strategy and guidelines
- Ensure compliance with all company and
legislative requirements including but not limited to Food safety, Health
& Safety
- Maximise team performance,
efficiency and service levels and drive employee engagement
- Develop enhanced
and future fit employee skillset and flexibility especially results focussed
relationship fostering
- Support
trainee development to ensure the ‘next generation’ workforce
Skills
- M&S Experience (Preferable)
- Excellent interpersonal, networking and
influencing skills
- Results-driven, with great commercial thinking
(you know what a great deal looks like whilst valuing every pound) and a
skilled brand ambassador. Relishing challenge and variety
- Flexible negotiation and excellent communication
skills
- Attentive to detail with good strategic ability
- Flexible, adaptable and keen to support others’
development
- Strong team manager
- Accreditation Food Hygiene equivalent at minimum
level 3
- Excellent IT and report writing skills
- Speaking, writing and understanding excellent spoken
and written English language. (This is an essential health & safety,
traceability, management and quality control requirement which will be
tested as part of the recruitment process)
- Strong numeracy skills
For more information about this vacancy please apply today
Job tags
Salary
£45k per annum
