Account Manager

At Neve Fleetwood, we’re looking for a proactive and customer-focused Account Manager to join our sales team. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys building relationships, growing accounts and spotting new business opportunities within a defined region.

Reporting to the Sales Manager, you’ll work closely with our Business Development Managers to support existing customers and drive sales growth.

• Managing and growing a portfolio of existing independent customers
• Proactively selling promotional lines, daily specials, and identifying cross-sell and upsell opportunities
• Building strong, long-term relationships by understanding customer needs now and in the future
• Identifying gaps and growth opportunities through questioning, data analysis and customer insight
• Supporting new business by targeting specific customers and following up promotions
• Achieving sales, margin and customer retention targets
• Working closely with Business Development Managers and depot colleagues to deliver great service

• Experience in sales or account management, ideally in food service or a fast-paced environment
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills
• Commercial awareness with confidence working with figures and margins
• A proactive, problem-solving mindset with the ability to suggest new ideas
• Good product knowledge (or the ability to learn quickly) and attention to detail
• Comfortable managing targets, calls and customer conversations

If you enjoy building customer relationships and driving results in a supportive team environment, we’d love to hear from you.

We’ve created a benefits package that is designed to support you and reward your hard work. Every employee (subject to completion of probation) is automatically entitled to:

• Discounts:
  Save on Bidfresh products, high street shopping, travel, and cinema tickets
• Free parking:
  Free parking at our sites
• Health care cash plan:
  Access to a health care cash plan
• Confidential support and counselling:
  Access to free confidential support and counselling
• Pension scheme:
  Access to a pension scheme
• A minimum of 30 days holiday entitlement