National Account Manager – Fresh Produce to Foodservice

PH1959 – National Account Manager – Fresh Produce to Food service Fantastic opportunity for candidates seeking to work for a genuine food service market leader LOCATION

Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, London, Bristol, Southampton

We are a division of a major food service market leader specialising in Fresh Produce sales to the food service sector.

As a company we pride ourselves on the quality of our products combined with our excellent service levels.

We have an expansive range of food service clients ranging from hotels, pubs, leisure and contract catering through to education and healthcare.

We excel at developing strong relationships at Chef and contract catering manager level, as we appreciate how important our product range is within the menus of establishments.

In addition to providing a full and comprehensive range of Fresh Produce products, we also supply other areas including chilled and butchery lines.

We have exciting plans to grow the team and further develop our strong position in the Food service sector.

As a result we are currently seeking to hire a National Account Manager to support with further developing relationships within an established customer base.

The focus of this role is to develop business at Key Account and National level.

You will be responsible for targeting large independent or chain Food service establishments – across all areas including Hotels, Restaurants, pub group, contract catering, education and healthcare.

Your role will involve locating the right prospects, tendering for business and on boarding these clients once commercial agreements are in place.

There will also be an element of upselling and cross selling once on board.

The role is predominantly home based although there will be National travel.

This is an excellent position for a Food service experienced candidate – with a passion for new business who wishes to progress their career at National Accounts level and also become involved in team management.

We are ideally seeking to speak to established Food service sales professionals with a proven track record of business development within the sector and ambitions to progress their career with a brand leader.

• Candidates must have a proven track record of sales within the Food service sector at National Account level.
• Candidates do not have to be from a fresh produce background and can be from all food areas of Food service.
• Experience at working with short shelf-life food service produce (i.e. Seafood/Butchery/Fresh produce) would be advantageous
• Candidates must have strong knowledge of the Food service sector at National Account level across a cross section of Food service sectors – (Pubs, Hotels, Restaurants, Contract Catering, Education, Healthcare)
• Candidates must have strong relationship building skills and a structured approach to National Accounts