National Account Manager - Premium Consumer Product Brand

A globally recognised consumer product brand is hiring for a National Account Manager in their fantastic sales team. This top employer in the Premium Consumer Products sector has posted significant growth in the last 8 years with multi-million-pound growth across all channels, approximately 18% year-on-year uplifts. The brand's portfolio is vast, boasting a global presence and recently embarking on a Digital Transformation project, upskilling and accelerating bolstered by fantastic, marquee NPD launches.

This brand portfolio is loved and adored by consumers and customers. They have a brilliant team that brings to life their brands and products across the globe. With superb brand building, they have created several market-leading brands and are now looking for a customer-focused superstar to drive market share in a new retail channel that has grown from £0-£5 million in less than a year.

The Role: This National Accounts role, reporting to the Channel Lead, covers one of their most prestigious and new National accounts. There is a distinct possibility that, as the structure of the business matures, this will become a significantly more senior role in the next 2-3 years. You will have full control of budgeting and will work closely with the Marketing and Ecommerce teams to maximise the account's growth potential. This role requires both commercial strategic leadership with your customer and maintaining internal and external buying relationships.

Passion for brands and products is key, as this business captures the imaginations of their consumers through the premium nature of their brand. The team is fantastic, and you will join a passionate and driven group who love what they do. This is a rare opportunity to walk into a high-performing business to continue the fantastic work done and implement your style.

What We Need: You need to have structured training and a branded product background in National Accounts across retail customers. You can be a graduate with experience managing a small P&L on a customer ready for a step up or a NAM in a business already who wants a change of pace to a premium global business. Culture fit is important; this is a South-East based business that thrives on teamwork and being visible to learn and progress. You need to want to work with truly inspiring people who pride themselves on excelling with 4Ps customer modelling and perfect store. You need to be a strategic customer manager who underpins commercial skill with strong data-led rationale.

Checklist for you:

• UK Grocery or High Street retail experience.
• Some Joint Business Planning experience.
• Close cross-functional working experience is super important.
• External customer/partnership building 4Ps & perfect store.
• Branded consumer product background - ESSENTIAL.
• Agility to move super-fast on a broad product portfolio & business that is transforming.
• Be a good egg - this is a business that prides itself on its culture.
• Ambition - lots of opportunity for career progression.

This is a fantastic business with huge autonomy that boasts an exciting brand portfolio. It will not hang around, so get in touch as soon as possible.