About the Role
Help shape the menus of tomorrow by partnering with some of the UK's leading Foodservice and Beverage customers. As National Account Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in growing our business across a variety of Foodservice and Beverage channels, managing a portfolio of Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) and Foodservice End User customers throughout the UK & Ireland.
Responsibilities
- Grow Strategic Customer Partnerships by developing trusted relationships and building Joint Business Plans.
- Develop New Commercial Opportunities across Foodservice and Beverage channels.
- Deliver Culinary-Led Customer Solutions by partnering with the Culinary team on menu development and product demonstrations.
- Drive Commercial Excellence by leading customer planning, forecasting, pricing, and negotiations.
- Collaborate Across the Business with Culinary, Marketing, Category, Finance, and Supply Chain teams to ensure a seamless customer experience.
Requirements
- Proven track record of managing and growing National or Key Accounts within Foodservice, Beverage, FMCG or hospitality.
- Ideally with exposure to Quick Service Restaurant or Foodservice End User customers.
- Strong understanding of the Foodservice and Beverage landscape.
- Established network of customer contacts and decision-makers.
- Demonstrated success growing existing customer relationships while identifying and converting new commercial opportunities.
- Excellent commercial planning, negotiation and Joint Business Planning skills.
- Ability to deliver sustainable business growth.
- Ability to build trusted relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally.
- A self-starter comfortable driving growth, navigating ambiguity and managing opportunities from initial engagement through to implementation.
- A collaborative approach, with confidence working cross-functionally.
- Strong commercial curiosity, organisational skills and a proactive mindset.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Forward-thinking, commercially minded and entrepreneurial in your approach.
- A genuine passion for food and helping customers create successful menu solutions.
Skills
- Commercial planning
- Negotiation
- Joint Business Planning
- Relationship building
- Stakeholder influence
- Commercial curiosity
- Organizational skills
- Proactive mindset
- Cross-functional collaboration
Location
- Southwark, London
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- National Account Management
- Key Account Management
About the Company
- Flora Food Group is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workplace.
- Flora Food Group is an employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and equal opportunities for all.
Equal Opportunity
- We recruit based only on values, qualifications, performance, skills, behaviours, experience, and knowledge.
- We ensure job advertisements are free from unintentional bias.
- No personal characteristics should be a barrier to joining Flora Food Group.
- We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other personal characteristics.
