Business Development Manager

4 weeks ago


Maidenhead, Windsor and Maidenhead, United Kingdom Research Council Full time
Job Summary

The National Account Manager role at Research Council will be responsible for managing the relationship with value retail customers and developing our commercial relationship to support future growth. This is a broad National Account Manager position with key strategic customers. Taking ownership of customer relationships, the National Account Manager will balance external customer requirements with the support of a cross-functional selling team including category, shopper marketing, and supply chain. With regular exposure to leadership teams within the UK, the national account manager will be fully responsible for the account management life cycle.

Key Responsibilities
  • Deliver Customer AOP P&L: Encompassing agreed volume, NSV, GP, and GP% measures.
  • Pricing, Promotion, and Negotiation: Account planning of customers, including pricing, promotion, and negotiation.
  • Develop Customer Relationships: Bringing customer strategy into JDE and understanding category, market, customer, and consumer dynamics.
  • Negotiation of NPD Listings: Negotiation of NPD listings, distribution increases, feature plans, and shopper activation.
  • Leadership of Internal Business Planning: Leadership of internal business planning and stakeholder management.
Qualifications
  • Proven UK Account Management Experience: Proven UK account management experience in a retail FMCG brand environment, preferably having experience of dealing with customers within the discounter's sector.
  • Strong Organisational Skills: Strong organisational skills with the ability to work with others to deliver a specific customer strategy.
  • Ability to Demonstrate NSV Growth: Ability to demonstrate NSV growth achievement and a strong ability to seek out further growth.
  • Strategic Capability: The nature of this role requires strategic capability, strong internal networks, and cross-functional relationship building skills.
  • Ability to Deal with Ambiguity: Ability to deal with ambiguity, lack of data, and at ease with difficult and demanding customer conversations.
  • Degree Educated: Degree educated (or equivalent).
Additional Information

This role requires a strong understanding of the retail FMCG industry and the ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with key customers.



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