At a Glance
- Tasks: Support Grocery accounts, manage promotions, and ensure stock availability in stores.
- Company: Join Lotus Natural Foods, a leader in healthy snacking with a vibrant culture.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, team-oriented environment, and opportunities for personal growth.
- Other info: Full-time role in St Albans, with a focus on teamwork and collaboration.
- Why this job: Be part of a fast-growing company making a difference in the healthy snack industry.
- Qualifications: Bachelor's degree, strong selling skills, and a results-driven mindset.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
Lotus Natural Foods, the healthy snacking division of Lotus Bakeries, has great ambitions for all our brands, ensuring that 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.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work with the fastest growing healthy snack company in the UK for a Grocery National Account Exec, supporting the Senior National Account Manager across lead Grocery customers. You will support the Grocery team to deliver the annual plans to budget and be key in ensuring the plans once agreed happen both at head office and in store.
Key focus areas of the role:
- Assisting on Grocery accounts on a day-to-day basis, including 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, EPOS & Invoice tracking with the use of retailer systems (Connect, Together With, SkuTrak, etc) and ongoing promotional reviews.
- Working cross functionally with our Operations team on customer forecasts and with our Category and Shopper Marketing teams on range and distribution and display and feature.
- Attending meetings with the SNAM where appropriate and building a network of key contacts within the account base from supply chain, formats, merchandising, promotional planning, admin and the buyer.
- Getting out to store on a regular basis to ensure activity is happening and to review the competitor set.
- Working with the account lead and Category team to develop engaging sell-in stories for new products.
Your role will be key in supporting the Grocery team in delivering the annual plans. Working with a small team, you will work across all business functions: Operations, Finance, Marketing, Customer Service and NPD to deliver key Grocery targets.
About You:
- Right-To-Work within the UK (without sponsorship)
- Minimum Education to Bachelors Degree level
- 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 organizational, written and verbal communication skills
- Be a team player, contributing to workshops or building upon ideas to amplify the overall result.
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.
National Account Sales Executive in St Albans employer: Lotus Bakeries
Lotus Natural Foods is an exceptional employer, offering a vibrant work culture that fosters growth and innovation within the healthy snacking sector. With a commitment to sustainability and quality, employees are encouraged to develop their skills in a supportive environment, while enjoying the unique advantage of working in beautiful St Albans, where collaboration and creativity thrive. Join us to be part of a passionate team dedicated to making a meaningful impact in the food industry.
