Account Executive

Why Greencore?

You may not have heard of us, but we’re sure you’ve tried our products. We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 13,000 colleagues across 16 world-class manufacturing sites and 18 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals.

What you'll be doing

We're looking for individuals that are eager to advance in account management who want to make a tangible difference to a large organisation.  There is the opportunity to have ownership of categories driving growth and services improvement. 

You will join our commercial team and support our National Account Managers in the day to day management of our Sainsbury's account and the growth we're driving. You will play a pivotal part in our relationship with Sainsbury's and will work collaboratively with other teams in the business to improve our service.

Your day to day responsibilities will include:

• Manage all day to day customer requirements to include research on the shopper journey, product sampling and benchmarking sessions
• Identify key insights on our product range and actions internally with the category and NPD teams and with the customer
• As directed by the National Account Manager, you will be involved in the promotional process of our products and activity
• Provides category analysis to support the customer innovation and category process
• Validation and checking of sets of data to ensure business information is aligned (e.g. – Sales forecast)
• Own and deliver a schedule of reporting to capture all business requirements
• Maintain database of knowledge and data relating to our customer

The location of this role can be arranged to be at our site in Bow, Heathrow, Park Royal or Northampton as long as you are willing to be on site 1/2 days per week and work the rest of the week from home. 

What we’re looking for

The ideal candidate will possess strong commercial sales, interpersonal and organizational skills. They should be comfortable with multitasking and be able to budget their resources in order to meet the assigned quotas for their role.

You will have experience in a similar role within the food industry and your key attributes will need to include:

• Willingness to learn with an enthusiastic approach
• Computer literate with good interpersonal ability
• Communication and analytical skill

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.

If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.

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