Account Executive

Greencore; Leeds; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturer is seeking an Account Executive in Leeds. This role is crucial for supporting National Account Managers and ensuring high service levels for customers. Candidates should have a degree in Food or Nutrition Science, some food industry experience, and strong analytical skills. This position offers competitive salary, benefits, and development opportunities within a diverse team atmosphere.

Benefits

Competitive salary and job-related benefits

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Company share save scheme

Exclusive employee discount platform

Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Qualifications

• Education ideally at degree level in Food/Nutrition Science.
• Some experience in food-related environment.
• Demonstrates analytical skills and is fully numerate.
• Full UK driving license.

Responsibilities

• Manage customer requirements including product sampling and research.
• Identify key insights with internal category and NPD teams.
• Participate in promotional processes as directed by managers.
• Provide category analysis for customer innovation.
• Validate data to ensure business information alignment.
• Deliver reporting to capture business requirements.
• Maintain customer knowledge database.

Skills

Analytical skills

Good communication

Education

Degree in Food/Nutrition Science or equivalent experience

Job description

Overview

Opportunity: Account Executive - 12 Month FTC

Location: Leeds City Centre

Greencore is a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 13,300 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY24, we generated revenues of 1.8bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,500 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

We work hard to ensure that Greencore is a great place to work, and our people truly are at the core. We\'re committed to ensuring all our colleagues have development plans and strive to provide inspiring leadership - in fact, in the past year we\'ve seen an 11% increase in the number of colleagues who would recommend Greencore as a place to work.

Join us and be part of our great team!

What you\'ll be doing

We have an exciting opportunity for an Account Executive to join our Greencore sales team in Leeds.

If you\'re eager to grow in account management and want to make a real impact within a leading food distribution business, this role is for you. You will play a key role in supporting our National Account Managers, ensuring our valued customers receive the highest level of service while working closely with teams across the business.

• Manage all day to day customer requirements to include research on the shopper journey, product sampling and benchmarking sessions
• Identify key insights on our product range and actions internally with the category and NPD teams and with the customer
• As directed by the National Account Manager, you will be involved in the promotional process of our products and activity
• Provides category analysis to support the customer innovation and category process
• Validation and checking of sets of data to ensure business information is aligned (e.g. - Sales forecast)
• Own and deliver a schedule of reporting to capture all business requirements
• Maintain database of knowledge and data relating to our customer

What we\'re looking for

• Ideally educated to degree level with a specialism in a Food/nutrition Science, have entered via an apprentice route or has equivalent work experience in a similar role/environment
• Has some experience / knowledge of food and the food environment
• Demonstrates analytical skills and is fully numerate
• Has good communication skills
• Full UK driving license

We\'re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.

What you\'ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities