National Account Manager - Chilled Meal Solutions (12 months FTC)

So, what will I be doing?

At Yeo Valley, we're passionate about nurturing and nourishing people and the planet by making great food the right way, forever.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Retail Sales Team as a National Account Manager for our Chilled Meals Solutions category on a 12-months Fixed Term Contract. Reporting to the Business Unit Lead, you will be responsible for planning, developing and implementing a customer strategy that supports the deliverance of the Yeo Valley strategic plan supported by a long-term customer supply agreement. You will be responsible for the formulation and delivery of individual account objectives aligned to the overall Yeo Valley aims.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Positively raise the profile of the Yeo Valley business within your customer through establishing and maintaining a strong set of relationships with key external stakeholders
  
• Manage effective communication of any supply issues to key customer(s) contacts
  
• Support the creation of a consumer-led long term development plan with your retailer(s), capturing key trends, working closely with the development team
• Agree long term supply agreements for own label underpinned by commodity trackers
  
• Assume full responsibility of the Customer(s) P&L, regularly monitoring performance vs budgeted objectives, identifying risk and taking corrective actions where necessary
  
• Lead on sharing relevant market and customer insight with key internal stakeholders
• Support and lead (where relevant), wider business projects within the Operating Model Groups as dictated by Yeo Valley strategic priorities

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

• Multiple-Grocer Account Management Experience
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills
• Demonstrates analytical, critical thinking & problem solving skills
• Proven collaborator and communicator
• Ability to interface and demonstrate leadership both internally and externally
• Demonstrates commitment to building strong business relationships with customers
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Able to work to tight or challenging deadlines
• Self-motivated and adaptable; able to juggle multiple priorities
• Challenger Brand mentality
• Numeracy, literacy and presentation skills including use of Microsoft standard suite
• Good understanding of supply chain risks and risk management techniques

Why should I join the family?

We're independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK's major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK's packaged yogurt.

We're sure you don't need convincing, but there's a whole host of benefits that we offer including:

• 25 days + bank holidays
• non-contributory pension scheme
• annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year)
• life cover
• healthcare cash back plan
• cycle to work scheme
• subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
• preferential rates with our partners
• learning and development opportunities; we're committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can.So, we recommend you get your application in straight away - and don't miss the opportunity to join us!

Unfortunately, we're not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valleydo notaccept speculative agency applications; we willonlyaccept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitmentportalat the point of instruction.