Commercial Executive

**About The Role**:
**Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family**

At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Private health scheme
- Employee discount scheme
- Experience annual pay reviews
- Profit related pay
- Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities

**The Opportunity**

We have the opportunity for you to join our team as a Commercial Executive. The Commercial Executive will support the commercial team with the day to day customer management responsibilities. With strong support, mentoring and coaching you will gradually assume account management responsibilities and start a journey to increase your commercial awareness and abilities and move towards commercial manager role. You will work closely with the commercial manager and support by ensuring all customer data is downloaded and converted into a business update providing insights across the key performance metrics (sales, margin, waste, service etc). In this role you will be:

- The download and use of customer data to provide a business update but also identify opportunities in conjunction with the category team or commercial manager such as distributions/ROS maximisation, waste reduction or margin opportunities.
- Accurate management of the commercial forecasts with any change being captured and communicated to relevant stakeholders.
- Ensure that all customer administrative tasks are completed in a timely manner and seek senior approval where required. This includes NLF’s, invoicing or promotional proposals.
- Work in conjunction with the category teams to understand the promotion mechanic impact both from a financial perspective but also vs. the market and understand the customer benefit.
- Work with development, process, technical and operations to track the progress of NPD/EPD launches to ensure a smooth customer launch. This also includes the delist of products where relevant stakeholders need to manage stocks and suppliers to minimise any write off or stock exposure.
- Build a strong relationship with the customer buying teams so you are seen as a “go to” knowledgeable individual who is proactive and responsive.
- Become a key team player by building and driving relationships across all internal functions (business & group).
- Degree education or equivalent preferred.
- Food experience preferred but not essential.
- Competent with all major software packages.
- Strong leadership potential with good interpersonal and communications kills with the ability to communicate cross functionally and external customers.
- Strong organisational, and project management skills to assist with deadline delivery.
- Able to manage and present data to a wider audience in a format that is easy to understand the objective clearly translates.
- Able to effectively time manage priorities and workloads as well as working to tight deadlines. During these times the induvial may request support to ensure the overall business requirement is achieved.
- Hardworking and passionate with an eye for detail and strong can-do attitude.

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.

**About Us**: We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.

At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

**_Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative._