National Account Manager

**National Account Manager - Food**

**Please also note that the internal title for this position is Senior Associate, Sales**
- **Location**:This is a **remote**position which can be **located anywhere in the UK**
Field based 80% and 20% home based
- **Function**: Sales

**About us**:
Joining the team at SC Johnson Professional® makes you part of a family company with a deep history in the professional market as a leading manufacturer of skin care, cleaning and hygiene products and smart technologies. We’re a team of more than 1,000 employeesacross five continents providing solutions to healthcare, industrial and institutional markets across the world.

SC Johnson Professional is a business unit within SC Johnson, a family-owned and led company and leading manufacturer of quality, trusted products since 1886.

**About the National Account Manager - Food role**:
As our National Account Manager - Food, you will be responsible for creating and driving our Strategic Plan for the food sector, identifying new business opportunities and working to successfully drive the sales for SC Johnson Professional products to newclients. Our products range from Hand Sanitizers, Washroom Foam Soaps, Surface Cleaners, and Protective Cream plus more. This position will be home based with regular travel visiting new and existing clients nationally.

**The key responsibilities of our National Account Manager - Food will include**:

- Creation of Strategic Plan and identifying new business opportunities
- Working alongside specialist teams to create solution lead propositions
- Engaging with target customers
- Working with the Sales team to engage with our distributors
- Representing SC Johnson Professional at networking events

**Previous experience / knowledge required of our National Account Manager - Food**:

- Experience of new business development, within the food sector
- Comfortable working to engage with new potential end users, developing relationships at all levels
- Experience in inter-department working, able to utilize our in-house experts - Lead Generation and Marketing Teams
- Comfortable with utilising Salesforce CRM to track progress an identify fresh opportunities

**Competencies, behaviors and aptitudes required of our National Account Manager - Food**:

- A highly motivated team player, comfortable working within a hybrid structure
- Tenacious, resilient, confident, and proud of the brand you represent
- Working on own initiative
- An active listener, able to overcome objections
- Analytical, self-aware and reflective

**Benefits you will recevie as our National Account Manager - Food**:

- Competitive salary and sales incentive plan
- 33 days annual leave inclusive of statutory bank holidays
- Discounted employee product sales and FREE giveaways
- Company pension scheme up to 6% employer contributions
- Group income protection plan (In the event of long-term illness)
- Life assurance based on 4 x your salary
- Optical vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to employee assistance programmes

We believe Inclusion and Diversity is more than a program. We embed inclusive practices in our day-to-day work, the way we relate to our colleagues, collaborate and make decisions.

We value the collective richness of the differences people bring to the organization, including style, personality, thoughts, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, and disability - that enables all to bringtheir full contributions to the organization.

**You need to be eligible to work in the United Kingdom