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Competitive salary, car allowance, up to 25% bonus and excellent benefits package.
We have an exciting opportunity available for you to grow your career and make a difference at Birds Eye! Joining us as a National Account Manager you'll lead on the execution of the customer business plan to achieve and exceed annual targets. You’ll do this by utilising category and consumer insight to achieve key business targets and be accountable for the planning and delivery of a profitable growth plan with your customer.
This is a key role within our Irish commercial team where you’ll manage a broad portfolio of branded products for the business within the Birds Eye, Aunt Bessies, and Goodfella’s Pizza portfolios. In brief, you will be responsible for:
* Building partnerships with stakeholders to develop, manage & execute Joint Business Plans to achieve both your own and the customer’s Sales, Profit & Share targets. (Full P&L ownership and updating the sales and gross profit forecasts)
* Work with internal & external customers to secure best in class visibility of our Brands.
* Ownership of the promotional strategy – utilising best practise in bringing together all 3 brands across categories to deliver the best offer for the Customer, Consumer and Birds Eye.
* Monitoring portfolio effectiveness via the company tool kit / reporting system and feed learnings into the category, RGM, customer marketing and customer finance teams.
* Own the day-to-day commercial relationship with the Buyers in your respective categories - this will also include some exposure to Senior Buying managers, and Category Directors.
About you
This is a great opportunity for someone working as a Key Account Manager ready to take the next step and grow their career within a FMCG environment. We look for people who are focused on getting results, embrace learning and bring positive energy, combining initiative with a sense of teamwork and collaboration.
* You’re an effective communicator, able to influence and build relationships both internally and with the customer.
* Good administrative skills, you’re used to forecasting and understanding the trends around this.
* Demonstrate a strong “Attention to Detail” mindset.
* You’re effective with Microsoft Excel, analysing data, and can interpret outputs to use to commercial advantage.
* You’ve a good level of Sales Skills, a structured selling process, and can support with customer negotiation.
* Own label business management experience would be great, but displaying category and customer first mind-set is most important.
* You’re passionate with high energy to deliver.
What we can offer you…
We’re on an exceptional adventure and offer a truly purpose led career and we aim to empower each employee and promote their personal growth all the while ensuring business needs are met now and into the future.
* An ambitious employer with recognized brands and growth potential.
* A culture where you're part of a team, where you feel encouraged to make a difference.
* The potential to progress your career across within Birds Eye.
Who are we…
This is a great time to join us! Birds Eye, owned by Nomad Foods, is the UK's/Ireland’s no.1 branded frozen food company and is comprised of the Birds Eye, Goodfella's, Aunt Bessie's and Green Cuisine brands. Selling its first products in 1946, we have been providing high-quality frozen food for generations, and our iconic portfolio of fish, vegetable and chicken products now also includes a meat-free range, pizzas and roast joints and accompaniments. 2024 marks 100 years since our founder, Clarence Birdseye, invented the process behind frozen food as we know it today and we are immensely proud of our heritage as we continue to endeavour to serve the nation with better food, promoting the nutritional benefits and convenience of frozen food and the role it plays in helping reduce food waste.
At Nomad Foods we're proud to represent the world we serve by hiring diverse talent. Our inclusive culture is all about what we can achieve together.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Food and Beverage Manufacturing and Food and Beverage Retail
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