(Home office) Account Manager - Food & Beverage

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(Home office) Account Manager - Food & Beverage, Bristol

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Client:

Kerry

Location:

Bristol, United Kingdom

Job Category:

-

EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Job Views:

18

Posted:

26.04.2025

Expiry Date:

10.06.2025

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Job Description:

We are currently looking for an Account Manager to join the team for a FTC of 1 year.

The person can be based either in the UK or in Ireland.

What will you be doing?

• Manage stakeholder groups within one or more customers
• Achievement of sales budget and target on an annual basis
• Responsible for ensuring all price and commercial agreements are agreed with customers and aligned to Kerry strategies and fully implemented with the customer
• Responsible for driving availability and customer orders as well as Kerry service levels (order fulfillment through to accounts received)
• Actively work with Demand Planning to ensure that the customer sales forecast is accurately reflected in the business sales forecast
• Creating integrated plans that deliver the strategy Supporting brand execution
• Accountable for customer performance, ensuring JBP is a working document bought into by all stakeholders and reflects and achieves sales, profit & brand objectives for Kerry
• Responsible for expert knowledge of their customer, its competitors and the market they operate in
• Responsible for the planning and development of customer promotions
• Accountable for the creation and maintenance of customer business plans (JBP’s)
• Responsible for the negotiation and delivery of the targeted customer trade rate for all activities
• Responsible for delivering accurate forecast working with demand planning

What do you need to be successful?

• Previous experience in a food and beverage sales environment
• Knowledge of the food industry

We are currently looking for an Account Manager to join the team for a FTC of 1 year.

The person can be based either in the UK or in Ireland.

What will you be doing?

• Manage stakeholder groups within one or more customers
• Achievement of sales budget and target on an annual basis
• Responsible for ensuring all price and commercial agreements are agreed with customers and aligned to Kerry strategies and fully implemented with the customer
• Responsible for driving availability and customer orders as well as Kerry service levels (order fulfillment through to accounts received)
• Actively work with Demand Planning to ensure that the customer sales forecast is accurately reflected in the business sales forecast
• Creating integrated plans that deliver the strategy Supporting brand execution
• Accountable for customer performance, ensuring JBP is a working document bought into by all stakeholders and reflects and achieves sales, profit & brand objectives for Kerry
• Responsible for expert knowledge of their customer, its competitors and the market they operate in
• Responsible for the planning and development of customer promotions
• Accountable for the creation and maintenance of customer business plans (JBP’s)
• Responsible for the negotiation and delivery of the targeted customer trade rate for all activities
• Responsible for delivering accurate forecast working with demand planning

What do you need to be successful?

• Previous experience in a food and beverage sales environment
• Good communication skills
• Knowledge of the food industry
• Third level degree qualified

Beware of scams online or from individuals claiming to represent us. A Kerry employee will not solicit candidates through a non-Kerry email address or phone number. Kerry does not currently utilise video chat rooms (e.g., Google Hangouts) for interviews. Do not provide payment for participation in the hiring process. Kerry will not ask for money at any point, except for reimbursable travel expenses. Payments by Kerry will be from official Kerry accounts.

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