National Account Executive
| Posting date: | 16 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | £31,500 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 February 2025 |
| Location: | UB6 8LZ |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | William Jackson Food Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | WJFRP82224-15332 |
Summary
Overview - Are you a sales-driven professional with a knack for fostering meaningful customer relationships? Join Belazu as a National Account Executive, where you'll be managing key customer accounts, including smaller wholesalers and Whole Foods Market, to drive growth and impact across our exceptional product portfolio. This is a customer-facing role that offers opportunities to hone your sales skills, innovate promotional strategies, and be part of a motivated team powering business expansion.
About Belazu
This is a lovely opportunity to join a business with an impressive set of accreditations, from B Corp status to silver standard Investors in People and newly recognised in 2024 as a Sunday Times Best Place to Work. We are a diverse team with a shared set of professional goals and social values that drive a hugely satisfying working experience. Belazu has been a pioneer of supplying high quality, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Ingredients within the UK’s Foodservice for over 30 years. We are an innovative leader in our field, with an energetic and high performing working culture. We have ambitious plans to grow over the next 5 years and take great pride in the values that form the spine of our business.
What the day job looks like:
In this full-time role as a National Account Executive, you will be responsible for:
• Day to day customer management and contact across multiple categories in each customer.
• Recommending and implementing promotional plans and in store activation (trade marketing) to deliver growth in a profitable way.
• Management and nominating of promotions and tracking compliance.
• Building category stories to facilitate the listing of new SKUs and grow distribution of existing SKUs.
• Track spending to ensure that we get the best return and do not overspend
• Tracking business performance and making recommendations to improve performance.
• Providing regularly updated forecasts by customer for supply chain within 25% forecast accuracy.
• Managing and administering multiple customer performance reports.
• Working with all business departments (customer services, planning, purchasing and production) to provide information required to fulfil Multiple customer orders.
• Monitoring and reporting on future sales and marketing activity to help clarify operational support requirements.
• To contribute to the Health & Safety, Food Safety and Socio-Environmental Belazu values, and to help achieve the company wide objectives that are communicated on an on going basis.
This role will suit you if:
• You have experience in FMCG sales, marketing, or account management
• You possess strong analytical skills and Excel proficiency.
• You're a proactive self-starter with a keen attention to detail.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy working across teams.
• You’re passionate about food and eager to contribute to Belazu’s mission.
This role may not be for you if:
• You are not collaborative and do not have a proactive approach to problem-solving
• You aren’t a self-starter.
• You struggle with time management, reliability, deadlines, or working effectively as part of a team
• You do not enjoy tasks that require you to be organized and have an eye for details.
What’s in it for you?
• 33 days annual (including 8 public holidays) per annum
• Auto-Enrolment Pension, plus an enhanced pension option
• Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• Learning and development opportunities
• Life assurance from day one
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee benefits portal with retail discounts, EAP and GP services and financial support tools
• Volunteer days
• Free parking on site
• Up to 40% discount on Company products
• Socials and internal awards
• Subsidised Canteen
Terms
• 40 hrs/wk 9am-5.30pm Mon-Fri (flexibility with regard to start time i.e. provisions can be made for an 8am start)
• Hybrid role
• Probationary period 3 months
• Annual salary review (our ‘movers and shakers’ are always rewarded)
• 30% KPI related bonus based around challenging but achievable tasks related to the role
Thanks for reading our job advert. We do our very best to bring to life what it’s like working as part of our team. Diverse teams really are the best teams. We want everyone to feel they can be themselves at work and develop their talents to the full. All colleagues are expected to take personal responsibility for keeping our workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and bullying - a place where everyone is treated fairly and respectfully.
We also know that sometimes some candidates may be put off applying for a job unless they think they can tick every box. If you are really excited about working with us and think you can do much of what we are looking for but aren’t sure if you are 100% there yet… go on… why not give it a whirl? Good luck!