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.