Senior National Account Manager - Sauces to Foodservice

The Company:
This is an exciting opportunity to work with a well-established family ran food manufacturer. We manufacture our own brand of cooking sauces, dressings and dips selling to restaurants, pubs, nursing homes, hotels, fast food chains and a variety of food distributors and food service wholesalers. We pride ourselves on the quality of product and have an excellent existing reputation within the Food service/OOH sector.

We have seen significant growth in demand for our products over the last 2 years, and this has led us to developing ambitious plans to grow the team. This has led to a requirement for us to further strengthen our National Accounts team and help us to secure further National contracts with Food service groups.

The Role:

This role involves managing and developing accounts at group end user level with the largest accounts in this sector. Predominant sectors for us are casual dining, pubs and QSRs. You will inherit an established account base including some major flagship accounts in this area. Many of these accounts we have exclusive lines in position with via effective NPD. You will be targeted on retention and growth of these accounts in addition to securing future national contracted business.

We are a Food service focused company so are extremely agile and flexible in our approach in order to bring new customers on board. The Candidate:
The successful candidate will be an experienced Food service National Account Manager with experience of developing business with Food service group end users Candidates must have a proven track record in Food service at National Account level. Candidates must have experience in developing National Contracted business with Food service end users

Experience of developing accounts within QSR and Casual Dining is of particular interest. Candidates must be experienced at working remotely due to the home based contract nature of the role.