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If you are ambitious, self-motivated, hardworking, and a team player and interested in growing your career with an International FMCG business, please read through our job opportunity.
Key Responsibilities
- Delivers budgeted customer Volume, NSV (Net Sales Value), and Margin for the Financial Year for relevant customer/s.
- Continuously takes ownership of customer product mix to drive improved profitability incorporating initiatives from other departments such as complexity reduction and cost of product recommendations.
- Takes responsibility for customer prices whilst following margin policies and aligning with financial approval matrix.
- Negotiates contracts involving subject matter experts in line with company’s governance.
- Manages tender(s).
- Evaluates on a monthly basis result vs. budget turnover, volume turnover, and profit targets.
- Prepares contingency strategies to bridge gaps and recover any shortfalls.
- Develops and manages customer joint business plans where relevant, ensuring that these are aligned to business priorities.
- Collaborates and shares expertise with the Demand Planning team to ensure that the forecast is accurate and in line with the account target.
- Manages the relationships across multiple customer departments (commercial, technical, product development) to optimise results in a complex matrix structure.
- Is the McBride customer expert and acknowledged market expert, ensuring customer needs and requirements are effectively cascaded throughout the wider organisation to maximise the development of the customer relationship.
- Generates a key account plan where required in line with McBride's strategic long-term goals. This is broken down into short- / mid- / long-term actions and priorities.
- Promote continual improvement of processes with the internal account team to deliver commercial excellence.
- Initiates, leads collaborative, value-added customer specific projects in line with the customer defined strategy, utilising resource from across the business to maximise results.
- Monitors and pro-actively investigates the market (including competition), keep a market overview and initiates changes.
- Provides the Partnership Champion with all relevant information.
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Technical Competencies
- Advanced knowledge of the FMCG and retail market
- Negotiates effectively in a range of circumstances
- Understands and effectively utilises the process of selling
- Understands change management and is able to implement changes and developments in the organisation
Behavioural Competencies
- Exceptional selling skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels and in a variety of settings
- Building relationships with ease and doing so as part of a cross-functional team and/or independently
- Ability to influence others and resolve problems
- Make decisions
- Plan and organise effectively with a high level of commercial acumen
Qualification(s) & Education
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- Bachelor up to Master / University degree in Business / Sales / Commercial or equal through experience
- Account management of a Major European Retailer; minimum of 3-year experience (required)
- Experience of selling Private Label / Value Brands (desirable)
- Experience of managing projects in the area of Sales (required)
- Experience and thorough ability to operate in a fast-paced environment (required)
- Extensive experience of working with or in manufacturing, supply chain or purchasing or marketing (required)
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McBride is the leading supplier of Private Label Household and professional cleaning/hygiene products for Europe's largest and most successful retailers as well as producing own brand products. The formula for our success is quite straightforward: we work by our Key Values – Always Committed, Working Together, Aspire to be the best and Giving and Taking Accountability to create a positive environment for all McBride employees.
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