National Account Manager

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Reference: 6158Management
Title: National Account Manager
Job Type
Date Added 02/02/2010
Last Updated 02/02/2010
Salary €70k

National Account Manager

Our Client is a world Leading FMCG blue chip company looking for a strong experienced National Account Manager for the wholesale & convenience channels.

Key Responsibilities

  • To have full inter-action across the commercial area and customer facing.
  • To build customer relationships
  • To build and execute joint business plans to agreed financial targets
  • To manage investment to agreed targets.
  • Continually evaluate the company's selling operations versus competition, in terms of sales, pricing, display implementation, share of space and overall trade attitudes.
  • Understand the challenges both your customers and the field sales team face.
  • Through the field sales team, gather feedback and gauge potential opportunities or threats.
  • Manage the forecasting procedures through the 4 weekly cycles to achieve targeted accuracy and error rates and provide an ongoing accurate year-end forecast. 
  • Work closely with the customer operations team, demand control, logistics and Finance. Always ensuring the most effective and productive use of resources.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS / MEASURES OF SUCCESS

Skills/Capability

  • Essential: A proven track record of driving the performance of your accounts
  • Tenacity and passion to get results.
  • Effective networking skills, with proven experience in building alignment and support across the organisation.
  • Sound strategic vision and decision making skills.

 

The Ideal candidate will have 3 years in head office dealings within FMCG.  Both Field Sales and National Accounts experience within FMCG are necessary.  Salary: Highly competitive package with strong basic salary.

 

 

If interested please e-mail your CV into Mark Burgess markburgess@peoplegroup.ie

 

The People Group is a Recruitment consultancy, specialising in Sales, Marketing & Management, established in 1989 and is based in Dublin 2. Our experienced team works in both the contingency and search areas, and covers all industry sectors including: FMCG, B2B, B2C, ICT, IT, and Telco with a focus on Mid to Senior Level roles.


 

Added By: Mark Burgess (01) 6619636

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