Account Manager - Waitrose
- Posted 27 January 2025
- LocationLondon
- Job type Fixed-Term - Full Time
- Discipline Commercial
- Reference027224
- Job FunctionCommercial
- Contact NameJade Cook
- Expiry date 27 February 2025
Job description
Role: Account Manager (1 year FTC)
Location: London - Park Royal
Why Greencore?
We’re a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better.
We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 13,300 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY24, we generated revenues of £1.8bn.
Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,500 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.
What You’ll Be Doing
As an Account Manager you will be responsible for nurturing and developing the trading partnership between Greencore and the specified customer base to deliver sustained profitable growth.
Key Accountabilities
- Plan and work with Marketing and Portfolio teams to create customer account plans which deliver the overall Greencore Customer Strategy, in the specified accounts
- In line with agreed account plans; establish, develop and maintain close-working, long term relationships with key customers, building market and competitor knowledge to identify and proactively satisfy customer requirements
- Proactively challenge ways of working to help develop and drive positive change throughout the business and within customer partnerships
- Mobilise and co-ordinate Marketing and Portfolio colleagues to implement customer-specific account plans which maximise sales value and profitability through joint business planning and customer negotiations
- Generate accurate demand forecasts to be used by supply chain to deliver availability targets and ensure that financial forecasts are robust and balance both risks and opportunities
- Identify and act on potential new business opportunities
This role will require some travel to our customer and therefore you will need to hold a full UK drivers licence and have access to your own vehicle.
What we’re looking for
We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.
- Degree calibre or equivalent
- Broad knowledge of the convenience food market
- Previous Account Management experience
- People Management experience
- Full UK Driving Licence
If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.
What you’ll get in return
- Competitive salary and job-related benefits
- Holidays
- Pension up to 8% matched
- Life insurance up to 4x salary
- Company share save scheme
- Greencore Qualifications
- Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
- Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.