National Account Manager in St Albans

Lotus Natural Foods, the healthy snacking division of Lotus Bakeries and a portfolio of 5 incredible brands; BEAR, TREK, nakd, Kiddylicious and Peter’s Yard, all having their own distinct proposition and role within our business.

We have great ambitions for all our brands, ensuring that as a business we deliver sustainable growth over the long-term. We believe that taste and quality are 100% of what underpins us as brand leaders within our categories, and what pulls us apart from our competitors. All of our brands started right here in the UK, as the first market for distribution, but over the years we can now be found across the globe, our ranges have got bigger, along with us as a business.

To date we have achieved so much, but there is still plenty of room to grow further and that means we need more brilliant people, those that share an ambition for making a difference and want to join us in delivering the next chapter of growth. Fancy getting involved, then read on…

About the Role

Key focus areas of the role itself and where you will spend the majority of your time:

• Full management of a number of customers in our Convenience channel, including Booker, Spar and Forecourts, on a day to day basis, to include budget planning, P&L, range review proposals, joint business plans, supporting with new line listings, delivering the promotional plan, working with supply chain on ensuring all ranged stores have stock, highlighting and addressing gaps, ensuring all products are correctly positioned and tagged online, forecasting, use of retailer systems and on-going promotional review.
• You will attend external customer meetings and build a network of key contacts within the account base from supply chain, formats, merchandising, promotional planning, admin and the buyer. You will be expected to get out to store on a regular basis to ensure activity is happening and to review the competitor set.
• You will also work with the category team to develop and optimise existing ranges and engaging sell‑in stories for new products.
• You will be working closely with the Shopper Marketing team to agree media spend and strategy in line with the above the line marketing plans.
• Your role is key in supporting the Impulse team in delivering the annual plans.
• Working with a small team you will cross‑functional across all business functions, operations, finance, marketing, customer service and NPD to deliver key grocery targets.

Reporting into

Head of Impulse

About You

Alongside living our TOP values, we are looking for someone who:

You will likely be an existing National Account Manager or Key Account Manager.

Here are the most important things we’re looking for from you:

• Right‑To‑Work within the UK (without sponsorship)
• Minimum Education to Bachelors Degree level
• 2+ years Account Management Experience dealing with FMCG buyers
• Results orientated and able to deliver account/channel targets
• Numerate, understanding of P&L’s and margins with good attention to detail
• Strong selling skills to win/influence buyers and internal teams
• Excellent organisational, written and verbal communication skills
• Passion for health and well‑being

Team

• Be a team player, we all get stuck in to achieve results here at Lotus Natural Foods and we love our team to look beyond their own role, whether that be contributing to innovation workshops or building upon ideas to amplify the overall result that perhaps sit outside of your role.
• Culture is hugely important to us here at Lotus Natural Foods and we look to our employees to positively contribute to that.

Please note this role is a full‑time position at our beautiful offices in St Albans, with four days a week spent on‑site. Please only proceed if this works for you.