National Account Manager

New Chapter Consulting; Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Bonus up to 50%

Job summary

New Chapter Consulting is recruiting a National Account Manager for Manchester, offering a base salary up to £55,000 plus a £5,000 car allowance and a bonus of up to 50%. The role focuses on major national retailers and strategic account plans.

You will develop joint business plans, turn insights into propositions, and work with Marketing, Buying and Supply Chain to deliver customer plans, shaping how accounts are run within a growing consumer goods business.

Qualifications

• Experience managing major national retail accounts.
• Strong analytical mindset and data-driven decision making.
• Ability to develop and implement joint business plans with retailers.

Responsibilities

• Own and develop major national retail accounts.
• Build account strategies and joint business plans.
• Identify opportunities for new listings, distribution and growth.
• Turn insights into compelling propositions for customers.
• Build relationships with retail buyers and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Buying and Supply Chain to deliver plans.
• Raise commercial capability across the team.

Skills

Account management

Analytical

Commercial thinking

Job description

National Account Manager | Manchester | £55k + Car + Up to 50% Bonus

If you're a National Account Manager in FMCG, how much freedom do you really have to change how your accounts are run?

This opportunity is different.

We're recruiting for a multi-brand consumer goods business with recognised household brands, major UK retail customers and an established international footprint.

They're investing in the next evolution of their commercial team and want people who can bring fresh thinking with them.

The brief isn't simply to inherit a number and hit the forecast.

You'll have the opportunity to rethink how accounts are grown. Build stronger customer plans. Use data and insight more effectively. Develop better propositions. Identify new distribution and listing opportunities. And build longer-term partnerships with major retailers.

The business is moving toward a more strategic, FMCG-style approach to selling, and you'll join at a point where you can genuinely shape what that looks like.

What you'll be doing

• Own and develop major national retail accounts
• Build account strategies and joint business plans
• Identify opportunities for new listings, distribution and sustainable growth
• Turn customer, consumer and market insight into compelling propositions
• Build strong relationships with retail buyers and other key stakeholders
• Work closely with Marketing, Buying and Supply Chain to deliver customer plans
• Bring ideas, challenge existing thinking and help raise commercial capability across the team

Who we're looking for

You'll probably be an established National Account Manager ready for the next step, coming from FMCG or another branded consumer goods environment.

More importantly, you'll be someone who wants to make things happen. Commercially curious. Analytical. Comfortable challenging the status quo. Resilient when things move quickly. And motivated by growth rather than simply managing what already exists.

Experience with grocers, discounters or other major national retailers would be particularly relevant.

Why consider it?

• Because you won't be joining a finished commercial model.
• You'll be joining while it's being built.
• That means more visibility, more influence and the opportunity to bring best practice from your current business into an environment where it will be noticed.
• There's also genuine scope to progress as the business grows and the commercial organisation develops.

Package

• Up to £55,000 base salary
• £5,000 car allowance
• Bonus up to 50%
• Additional benefits

The business has a highly collaborative, office-led culture, so this will particularly suit someone who enjoys working closely with colleagues rather than operating predominantly remotely.

If you're doing well where you are but feel ready for more ownership, more influence and a bigger opportunity to make your mark, I'd be interested in speaking with you.