ESSENTIAL HOME

With a trusted portfolio of world-class Air Care, Surface, Laundry and Pest Control products, the Essential Home team’s purpose is to Make A House A Home. Fuelling this newly formed business and leadership team is a diverse and inclusive culture for all. Together, we’re shaping a team with a founder mentality: that listens and learns, and that is entrepreneurial, agile, and action oriented.
With high-quality brands such as Air Wick, Cillit Bang, Calgon and Mortine, now is an exciting time to join a dynamic company full of purpose, pace and energy, that will create a truly unique learning and career opportunity for all.

THE EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• You’re proactive and thrive on making a significant impact in a fast-paced setting.
• Demonstrated ability in both financial and commercial analysis.
• Exceptional at interpreting data, market trends, and translating them into actionable sales directives.
• Confident in your communication skills, able to convey complex information succinctly.
• Collaborative in nature, with a track record of working effectively within diverse teams.
• Highly skilled in account management, with a savvy for ecommerce and field sales.
• Achieved a balance between strategic planning and impeccable execution.

THE SKILLS FOR SUCCESS

Key Account Management, Account Management, Ecommerce, Analysing sales and Ecommerce data, Field sales; Field sales management, Consumer Insights; Shopper Insights; Customer Insights; Category Analysis, Collaboration and partnership skills; Influencing, Consultative Selling, Perform product planning, Business accumen; financial accumen, commercial accumen, Sales negotiation, Strategy Execution, Operational Excellence.

EQUALITY

We recognise that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. That’s why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law

ABOUT THE ROLE

You will work on the front line of strategic execution and at the centre of product delivery within a FTSE10 Company and one of the top 3 TV advertisers in the UK – with results that consistently outperform our competitors.
Our brands are Number 1 or Number 2 brands in all their primary markets and we work with key retail players like Tesco, Boots, Asda and Sainsbury (amongst many others!). You will be able to say that you work for the most successful market innovator in the sector – with 30% of sales over three years coming from new products – and a company recognised for the strength of its commercial capabilities, offering numerous career opportunities.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support to develop and implement the annual business plan for account portfolio.
• Achieve Net Revenue, Gross Margin, 4P targets (Product, Placement, Price & Promotion) & Net Working Capital targets for a specified account
• Working with the in-store merchandising team to deliver best practice in-store sales execution, on shelf availability and promotional compliance
• Analysis of sales data to provide insights for National Accounts team – focusing specifically on promotional activity and new product launches
• Work cross-functionally with Supply Services to ensure that sales forecasts are accurate and adequate stock levels are available within the customers supply chain system
• Work with marketing teams to implement best-in-class promotional execution and visibility for all trade promotions
• Develop working relationships to deliver account objectives
• Support or run key projects within your account, developing new opportunities where appropriate.