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Customer Development Manager – f’real UK
Family-owned food company with global presence & $4B+ annual sales
About the Role
At Rich’s—a family-owned food corporation—we connect inspiration with possibilities, empowering customers across homes, restaurants, and bakeries worldwide. From cakes and icings to pizza toppings, we provide creative solutions for the foodservice, retail, and prepared-food industries, driving competitiveness for every scale of business.
We’re Global (operating in 100+ locations), Family (guided by our founding principles), and here to Inspire—truly believing "Infinite Possibilities".
Job Purpose: Customer-Driven Growth & Relationships
We’re looking for a Customer Development Manager—a fast-paced, entrepreneurial spirit who thrives on relationship-building, problem-solving, and driving growth. This isn’t your typical FMCG role. It’s about personalising customer strategy, seizing growth opportunities, and delivering against KPIs with autonomy—but never alone. You’ll foster long-term partnerships, own your customer portfolio, and act as the “go-to” innovator for our brands in a market that knows no boundaries.
No decades of experience required per se—but we don’t settle for just good enough either. We want someone who learns fast, lights up a room, and never backs down when obstacles appear.
Key Accountabilities & Measurable Outcomes
Customer Growth & Strategy
- Tailor channel-aligned strategies to maximise long-term value for our customers.
- Uncover and execute on insight-driven growth opportunities, leveraging data and problem-solving.
- Overflow – no phút! Pressure-cook insights into customer-specific plans that drive revenue, margin, and distribution gains.
Relationship Building
- Become a trusted partner across your customer base—multi-level relationships that drive change.
- Amplify customer voices internally, ensuring you deliver exactly what you promise.
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Commercial Delivery
- Full portfolio ownership: planning, forecasting, troubleshooting, and reporting—I’ll count on you to keep things on track.
- Craft engaging selling stories using category & shopper insights for impactful presentations.
Internal Collaboration
- Cross-functional synergy: work hand-in-glove with supply chain, technical, NPD, finance, marketing, and category teams to deliver fully customer-focused results.
- Help shape strategy, mentor colleagues, and raise the bar for the whole business unit.
Execution Excellence
- Stay vibrant: clarity in-field reporting of store visits, deal analysis, and net spins of what’s working and what’s not.
- Proactive—never reactive. When a market shake-up or plan needs an overhaul, you recognise it as an opportunity.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Critical
- Instinctively engaging and charismatic—eclosifies relationships with confidence.
- No bossing hand required: Self-starter, owns problems from A-Z, Neil Armstrong spirit for issue-resolution.
- Commercial savvy with some baseline in: sales, account management, or customer-facing roles. FMCG background? Bonus, but we’ll consider you.
- Data whisperer: Can use insights, benchmarks, trends to build sales-winning case files.
- Built for intensity: resilient, flexible, and realise a high-energy pitch.
- Powers negotiator: anchors decisions that favor everyone.
- Multi-team dynamo: Experience leading joint initiatives (e.g., supply chain meetings, NPD ideation, marketing alignment).
Desirable
- Hands-on with capital equipment or solution selling—knows the ‘how’s the why’s behind multi-pronged deals.
- Joint business planning framework got your back?
- Beverage industry exposure (sippable insider info = powerful ally).
- Project donations: Patch up leading small scale shifts with ease.
- Contact lens: expansive influence within retail, consolidated foodservice/on-the-go networks.
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The Personalities Who Outshine Here
(Yes—this does make the cut. Before listing CV points, let’s list vibes!)
- Professional puteromaniac: Loves connecting with actual people—not just screens. For love of great convos.
- Confidently cineastic: Humble in confidence, passionate and
A-Z checkup:
Not necessarily visually verified, but these describene the top performers: ✔️ Rare-earth specifier—energy that spikes, even zenith highs. ✔️ Fearless problem solver: Considers difficult challenges game drives never liabilities. ✔️ Doer attitude: gods of initiation—not typically “asked for” by the status quo… but rather producers to the next steps before asked. ✔️ Multi-halter: Experts at swinging between wear multiple hats while staying laser focussed. ✔️ Solution designer: Resilience dialed to 11, with faith in fix diversity when the next planned steps tip over unexpectedly. ✔️ Team street authority: Radical ecosystem and enriching agencies team (not feels networker).
Finally: BUILDING FROM BOTTOM: Your greatest curricular strength is positive anaesthesia (pun intended)—often making the day brighter for those around you.
Diversity & Inclusion Commitment
Rich Products Corporation is proudly a workplace driven to proximity diverse and disordered-thic minds. We actively welcome applications from people with disabilities and are accommodations for any requesting pyers of or engagement.
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