Account Manager

Greencore Group Lts; Tamworth; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK convenience food company seeks an Account Manager based in Tamworth to manage relationships and drive growth with key partners. The role involves strategic planning, building long-term customer relationships, and generating demand forecasts, along with identifying new business opportunities. Candidates should have a degree or equivalent experience, with a solid understanding of the food market and a full UK driving licence. We offer a competitive salary, target bonus, car allowance, and various employee benefits including pension matching and personal development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary

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 employee discount platform

Access to Wellbeing Centre

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Nurturing and developing the trading partnership with Poundland.
• Planning customer account strategies with Marketing and Portfolio teams.
• Building long-term relationships with key customers.
• Challenging and improving ways of working.
• Generating accurate demand forecasts.
• Identifying new business opportunities.

Skills

Account Management experience

People Management experience

Knowledge of convenience food market

Full UK Driving Licence

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.