National Account Manager – Grocery

Job title:

National Account Manager – Grocery

Company

method products

Job description

Lifestyle Brands (the LSB) is a growing house of like-minded brands under the SC Johnson umbrella including Method®, Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day®, Babyganics® and Ecover®. Headquartered in San Francisco with additional operations in Chicago and throughout Europe, the LSB is home to 650 employees. Together we act as a force for bold, transformative growth with a focus on delivering positive impact for people and the planet. If you’re into pioneering the future and doing good while doing business, come join us.The LSB is part of SC Johnson, a family-owned company and leading manufacturer of household cleaning, home storage, air care, pest control and shoe care products, as well as professional products. Originally founded in 1886 and headquartered in Wisconsin, U.S.A., SC Johnson and the Lifestyle Brands division are at work for a better world.Location: FrimleyContract type : PermanentPeople Leader: Channel Controller – GroceryFunction: SalesInternal Job Title: Senior Associate, Sales Account ManagementPlease note this role is not eligible for international relocation.What’s in it for you?

• Competitive pay & benefits
• Flexible working hours
• ‘Build your own’ learning programme
• Free breakfast & snacks
• 25 days annual holiday
• Pension, Life cover & Health Insurance
• Volunteering days
• Season ticket loan
• Wellness days
• Free refills of Ecover products

Overview:We are looking for a superstar National Account Manager to manage our Asda & Morrisons business. You will be part of the UK Grocery team within the UK Sales team and will formally report to the Channel Controller – Grocery based in Frimley.Responsibilities:

• Relentlessly pursue ambitious growth opportunities in your customer. Define a customer strategy and convert it into a plan that helps you win. Rally the troops behind your customer and your plans. Proactively share updates and inspire the wider LSB business on your customer’s strategy, performance, risks and opportunities.
• Agree & execute yearly sales plans with customers to deliver sales, profit & return on investment. Be resourceful & employ innovative solutions to deliver value, gross margin & distribution targets for your customers. Manage trade terms, price increases & promotional plans.
• Over deliver on all account management basics: accurate and timely financial and demand forecasting, performance tracking and reporting and being all over your NAM-admin.
• Live the values of LSB. Collaborate closely with other members of the team to set an envied culture and ways of working aligned with the company values and behaviours.
• Be a role model within the wider sales team, share best practice, learnings and ideas to support others to help contribute to team goals and ambitions.

Experience you’ll bring:

• Solid account management experience within Grocery / FMCG
• You have built winning sales plans and negotiated and executed annual business plans
• You will be adept at building and fostering relationships, both internally and externally and establishing great ways of working with your contacts
• You’re commercially savvy, you’re comfortable managing a P&L and know which levers to pull to hit your targets
• You’ll want to change the world for the better and believe the future is green
• You are ambitious and enjoy chasing down stretching growth targets
• You’re resilient and confident, with great influencing and negotiating skills
• You’ll inspire your customers with your storytelling and presentation skills – and mining data to drive the growth of our brands
• You’re a self-starter who’s not afraid to get your hands dirty and kick ass fast

About us:We are the people behind method + Ecover. We’ve always done things differently – we’re fearless thinkers, mad scientists and pioneering, passionate eco-enthusiasts who believe that making soap leads to brave ideas, bold inventions and beautiful bubbles. We started small but we have big plans to make the world a cleaner, greener, more colourful place. We invite everyone to join us as we pioneer a future where doing business is doing good for all.Let’s get one thing straight – you’re not coming here to just sell soap, or cleaning products. You’re joining us to move the hearts, souls and minds of others all over the world that see the world differently. We think about cleaning as an act of creative expression, a gesture of rebellion, and, yes, an escape from the normal. We take cleaning seriously – but not ourselves.Alongside our US friends Mrs Meyers and Babyganics, we are collectively known as Lifestyle Brands and are part of the SC Johnson family.Application:. If you would like more information about this role, please email us at and ask for the full job description.It’s a big, beautiful, colourful world out there and we should celebrate that. That’s why we’re working hard to be a fully diverse and inclusive place to work. Every day we strive to create an atmosphere where everyone feels valued, listened to, supported and where we can do our best work. Sure, there’s always more that can be done. But together with our team, partners, customers and community, we can make everyone welcome.We advertise all our roles on Evenbreak, the specialist job board for disabled candidates. If you have a disability or a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our vacancies, please visit their Career Hive – careers support for disabled candidates delivered by careers professionals with lived experience of disability. Find out more at .We are happy to adjust our hiring process to ensure we are accessible to everyone – please let us know what we can do to support you.Inclusion & DiversityWe believe that being a team of diverse people with different ideas, views and cultures will help us and our business thrive. We are committed to ensuring everyone who works at the LSB feels that they have a real sense of belonging and that they can show up as who they are, be valued, listened to and supported to do their best possible work.Sure, there’s always more that can be done. But together with our team, partners, customers and community, we can make everyone welcome.

Expected salary

Location

Frimley, Surrey

Job date

Sun, 02 Mar 2025 03:25:26 GMT

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