Account Manager

Greencore; Stafford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading convenience food company is seeking an Account Manager to cultivate relationships and drive growth with key clients. The successful candidate will create tailored account plans, work with various teams to maximize sales, and proactively identify new business opportunities. A degree or equivalent experience in account management and a broad knowledge of the convenience food market is required. This position offers competitive salary, benefits, and development opportunities, alongside some travel requirements.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits

Annual Target Bonus

Car Allowance

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Private Medical Insurance (PMI)

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre access

Qualifications

• Previous Account Management experience.
• Broad knowledge of the convenience food market.
• Full UK Driving Licence.

Responsibilities

• Nurture and develop trading partnerships.
• Create customer account plans.
• Establish long-term relationships with key customers.
• Challenge ways of working for positive change.
• Generate accurate demand forecasts.
• Identify potential new business opportunities.

Skills

Account Management

Market Knowledge

Relationship Building

Demand Forecasting

People Management

Education

Degree calibre or equivalent

Job description

Opportunity: Account Manager

Location: Tamworth

Why Greencore?

We're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of 1.95bn.

Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

What You'll Be Doing

As an Account Manager you will be responsible for nurturing and developing the trading partnership between Greencore and Poundland to deliver sustained profitable growth. As such, you will:

• Plan and work with Marketing and Portfolio teams to create customer account plans which deliver the overall Greencore Customer Strategy, in the specified accounts
• In line with agreed account plans; establish, develop and maintain close-working, long term relationships with key customers, building market and competitor knowledge to identify and proactively satisfy customer requirements
• Proactively challenge ways of working to help develop and drive positive change throughout the business and within customer partnerships
• Mobilise and co-ordinate Marketing and Portfolio colleagues to implement customer-specific account plans which maximise sales value and profitability through joint business planning and customer negotiations
• Generate accurate demand forecasts to be used by supply chain to deliver availability targets and ensure that financial forecasts are robust and balance both risks and opportunities
• Identify and act on potential new business opportunities

This role will require some travel to our customer and therefore you will need to hold a full UK drivers licence and have access to your own vehicle.

What we're looking for

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.

• Degree calibre or equivalent
• Broad knowledge of the convenience food market
• Previous Account Management experience
• People Management experience
• Full UK Driving Licence

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Annual Target Bonus
• Car Allowance
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• PMI Cover: Individual
• 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 to further your career.