National Account Manager - Discount Channels

Lifestyle Brands (the LSB) is a growing house of like-minded brands under the SC Johnson umbrella including Method®, Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day®, Babyganics® and Ecover®. Headquartered in San Francisco with additional operations in Chicago and throughout Europe, the LSB is home to 650 employees. Together we act as a force for bold, transformative growth with a focus on delivering positive impact for people and the planet.

Location: Frimley, London

Contract type: Permanent

People Leader: Head of Wholesale, Export & High Street

Function: Sales

Internal Job Title: Senior Associate, Sales Account Management

Please note this role is not eligible for international relocation. Remote work is available once per week for eligible employees.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive pay & benefits
• Flexible working hours + compressed week hours (1/2 day off on Fridays)
• ‘Build your own’ learning program
• Free breakfast & snacks
• 25 days annual holiday + additional days after service
• Pension, Life cover & Health Insurance & income protection
• Volunteering days
• Season ticket loan
• Wellness days

We are seeking a dynamic Sales superstar to manage our growing Discount business. Based in our Frimley office and reporting to our UK Head of Wholesale, Export, and High Street, this role is pivotal in driving our ambitions to grow the Method and Ecover brands and our mission; the fight against dirty!

Responsibilities:

• Deliver Operating Budget: Achieve value, gross margin, and volume targets for your accounts using innovative sales and marketing solutions. Manage trade terms, agreements, price increases, and promotional plans.
• White space expansion: Get creative in engaging new retailers in our Method and Ecover brands, sell the wonders of our products with the aim of speedy expansion of the brands into new channels and to new shoppers.
• Network Development: Build and maintain strong relationships with buyers, ensuring our brands remain top-of-mind.
• Collaborative forecasting: Make sure our team at our green-machine factory know how much product to produce through data led forecasting & planning.
• Promo planning: Develop a spend savvy promotional plan for your customers leveraging commercial and category insights to influence future strategies.
• Championing your customers: Making sure you have what you need to succeed.
• Live the values of LSB: Collaborate closely with other members of the team to set an envied culture and ways of working aligned with the company values and behaviours.

Experience you’ll bring:

• You’ll be at home being a trailblazer – trying things others haven’t tried before and quickly analysing whether they’ve worked.
• You’ll stand out if you've gained experience in an FMCG or CPG business, particularly across the Discounters channel.
• You’ll love devising the right plans for your customers/distributors and brand and be passionate about coming up with the right solutions yourself…and then implementing them.
• You’ll be comfortable in commercial conversations, and have experience collaborating with retail partners to grow FMCG brands. Experience working with discount retailers is a big plus.
• You’ll be comfortable mining and using market data and using it to drive the growth of a brand.
• Your communication skills mean you’ll be at home living and breathing our brand in front of an audience, and your skills mean that you’re able to turn your own great ideas and a small purse into exceptional and profitable sales growth.
• You’ll not be comfortable in a bureaucratic ‘ivory tower’ – you’re a self-starter who’s not afraid to get your hands dirty and win fast … and you’ll have the personality and energy to add to the team vibe in our office.

We are the people behind method + Ecover. We’ve always done things differently – we’re fearless thinkers, mad scientists and adventurous designers who believe that making soap leads to brave ideas, bold inventions and beautiful bubbles. We started small but we have big plans to make the world a cleaner, greener, more colourful place. We invite everyone to join us as we pioneer a future where doing business is doing good for all.

We believe that a diversity of perspectives and experiences makes a team stronger — and the stronger our team, the closer we are to delivering our ambition of a clean world revolution! It’s a big, beautiful, colourful world out there and we should celebrate that. That’s why we’re working hard to be a fully diverse and inclusive place to work. Every day we strive to create an atmosphere where everyone feels valued, listened to, supported and where we can do our best work.

We advertise all our roles on Evenbreak, the specialist job board for disabled candidates. If you have a disability or a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our vacancies, please visit their Career Hive – careers support for disabled candidates delivered by careers professionals with lived experience of disability. We are happy to adjust our hiring process to ensure we are accessible to everyone – please let us know what we can do to support you!

Inclusion & Diversity

We believe that being a team of diverse people with different ideas, views and cultures will help us and our business thrive. We are committed to ensuring everyone who works at the LSB feels that they have a real sense of belonging and that they can show up as who they are, be valued, listened to and supported to do their best possible work.