National Account Manager - Sainsbury's

As National Account Manager – Sainsbury’s, you will lead Coty’s commercial strategy across one of the UK’s most important grocery retail partners—representing a high-volume, fast-paced channel for Coty’s brands, including Adidas, Rimmel, Bourjois and Sally Hansen. You will drive growth, maximise distribution and visibility, and deliver best-in‑class in‑store and online execution in a highly competitive and operationally demanding retail environment.

The Role

Optimize, Enable, Innovate! As our National Account Manager – Sainsbury’s, you play a critical role in owning the Sainsbury’s relationship end‑to‑end, driving joint value creation, maximising category performance, and delivering strong commercial execution across a large and complex estate of stores. This is a highly numbers‑driven role, focused on delivering volume growth, improving distribution, optimising promotions, and ensuring best‑in‑class execution across hundreds of doors.

• Own and elevate the strategic partnership with Sainsbury’s, a key high‑volume retail partner for Coty’s mass portfolio.
• Lead joint business planning, aligning Coty’s commercial goals with Sainsbury’s category and shopper priorities.
• Shape activation plans across in‑store and online, ensuring strong visibility, availability, and execution at scale.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally to deliver consistent execution across supply, merchandising, and promotional activity.
• Drive impactful launch strategies and distribution expansion to maximise reach and performance across the estate.

Negotiation and Commercial Performance

• Lead negotiations on listings, pricing, promotions, and space, with a clear focus on driving volume, revenue, and market share growth.
• Optimise promotional strategies to balance volume delivery with profitability and ROI.
• Leverage data, insights, and store‑level performance to identify opportunities and drive improvements.
• Track performance rigorously and translate insights into clear actions to improve distribution, availability, and sell‑out.
• Act as the voice of Sainsbury’s internally, ensuring strong alignment and focus on key performance drivers.

Financial Ownership and Operational Excellence

• Own full P&L for Sainsbury’s, delivering against sales, profit, and market share targets.
• Manage accurate forecasting aligned to promotional cycles, seasonal peaks, and trading plans.
• Optimise investment strategy to maximise ROI and deliver strong commercial returns.
• Ensure excellence in execution across availability, supply chain, and in‑store presence, minimising lost sales opportunities.
• Drive strong financial discipline including budgeting, accruals, and receivables management.

You are a Coty Fit

As a commercially driven and highly analytical professional, you thrive in a fast‑paced retail environment where pace, volume, and performance are key. You are data‑led, results‑focused, and highly organised, with a strong ability to manage complexity, prioritise effectively, and deliver consistent growth across a large and demanding retail account.

• Proven experience as a National/Key Account Manager in FMCG or consumer goods.
• Strong experience managing major UK grocery or high‑volume retail accounts.
• Strong understanding of retail operations, distribution, and promotional planning.
• Advanced negotiation and relationship‑building skills with senior stakeholders.
• Strong commercial acumen with P&L ownership experience.
• Highly analytical with strong forecasting and planning capabilities.
• Experience working cross‑functionally in a matrix organisation.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

What We Offer

This is a unique role with a genuine opportunity to make an impact, giving you ownership of a business‑critical account and the ability to directly influence commercial performance at scale. You'll get to work in a diverse environment with a team of professionals who are passionate about the work they do.

• A competitive benefits package to support your health, wellbeing and financial security.
• Private medical insurance with fast access to specialist and mental health support.
• 8% pension fully contributed by Coty.
• Life assurance and income protection for added peace of mind.
• Flexible hybrid working with our Omni‑Working model (up to 50% remote).
• Generous family‑friendly policies including enhanced parental leave, birthday leave, volunteering days and sabbatical options.
• Everyday perks including employee discounts and salary sacrifice schemes.
• Opportunities to get involved in DE&I, sustainability and employee‑led initiatives.

About Us

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