ABOUT US:

itsu is the healthy eating, Asian inspired quick service retail & grocery brand with over 70 stores in the UK and a leading grocery business across Europe and beyond. Renowned for its best-in-class food made fresh in every shop every day, itsu has huge global ambitions with a commitment to continue to open many more stores and intensify the growth of its already thriving grocery arm. With its best-is-class healthy food, latest technology, innovation, and talented workforce, itsu is the future of fast food.
itsu [grocery], which this role falls under, takes the itsu brand into supermarkets, health food stores, online, wholesale and internationally with products such as crispy seaweed thins, frozen gyoza & bao, brilliant’broth, rice’noodles & miso’easy to name a few…

SCOPE OF THE ROLE:

• Building strong relationships across senior buying contacts at multiple retailers
• Building and delivering on a strategy to win in all channels outside of grocery [Convenience, high st, wholesale etc.]
• Landing new business for itsu [grocery] across all categories
• Managing a team of 2 covering multiple channels and supporting them to drive growth in their respective customers
• Create and execute plans for each account to support business growth
• Work closely with internal teams such as marketing, NPD, category and supply chain to deliver revenue targets
• Analyse sales data, consumer and wider food trends to highlight channel opportunities