COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Solent Group work with a diverse portfolio of Retailers and supply bespoke products within various categories, including Health & Beauty, Household Impulse Snacking and Reusable Bags. We are proud to be best-in-class when it comes to own-label product innovation. Our Categories are fast-paced with ever-evolving trends and a host of ground-breaking products coming to market on a regular basis – we add value to retailers by leading and owning each category.
Here at Solent we want people to be extraordinary. We pride ourselves on creating and producing amazing products and brands for our Global Customers. You will be joining a company with offices globally across South Africa, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Vietnam, and the UK.

• Bring your passion and enthusiasm to grow existing customers while generating new business using your love for sales, winning business and relentless focus on cross function business KPIs
• Ability to work independently alongside a pre-set sales strategy to achieve account specific budgets while also leading projects cross functionally to ensure delivery on time, on spec and in budget
• Formulate customer specific sales plan/strategy, in-line with commercial targets
• Understand customer KPIs, targets and review performance against these
• Be resourceful and employ innovative solutions to deliver value, gross margin & volume targets for your customers and brands
• Assigning, monitor and co-ordinate project milestones and progress, with both internal and external stakeholders
• Lead and plan the implementation of your projects (resource, relationship allocation) both internally and externally
• Drive innovation and NPD via market research and pursue ambitious growth opportunities in your customers
• Contribute to the wider commercial team and support other colleagues with their accounts. Share your ideas and help contribute to team goals and company growth ambitions