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The Role
This is a fantastic opportunity to join this successful, growing food importer and distributor which works across retail, foodservice and food manufacturing sectors. Boasting unrivalled staff retention, interesting challenging work, this is a superb opportunity to use your experience to make your mark.
This particular role will see you become a key member of the retail team, where you report to the Senior Commercial Manager, focusing on retail accounts. The accounts will include discounters (i.e. Home Bargains, Heron Foods) as well as a Top 5 grocery retailer. You will be working with an exciting and diverse product range across ambient and frozen categories.
In this role, you will be responsible for developing sales, identifying new opportunities, working to strengthen customer relationships, and helping to grow product distribution across the market.
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Key responsibilities include:
- Developing sales and expanding product distribution
- Building and maintaining long-term relationships with new and existing customers and suppliers - a trading type background would be highly advantageous.
- Managing customer accounts
- Conducting customer visits.
- International travel to visit suppliers across the world.
- Monitoring sales and stock levels to plan supply effectively
- Tracking market conditions and pricing
- Preparing costing sheets and analysing costs associated with buying and selling products
- Monitoring and analysing existing contract balances
- Communicating effectively with internal departments to ensure smooth execution of tasks
- Using in-house systems including SAP, Microsoft Office, and the company intranet
- Troubleshooting and resolving day-to-day issues as they arise
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About You
You will have strong experience at selling private label food products or ingredients into the retail and/or discount sectors. You have the resilience and determination to work hard to achieve successful outcomes. You are eager to learn and take on a new challenge You are organised, proactive, and commercially minded You enjoy building relationships and working as part of a team You are looking for a role where you can genuinely build a long-term career
What’s on Offer
- Competitive Salary
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Company car
If you thrive in a busy working environment, where no two days are the same then this is an opportunity not to be missed. You will become a key member of this retail commercial team that is part of a growing business in the food industry.
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