Senior Account Manager - Meat & Meat alternatives

at  Kerry

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• Previous experience in a food and beverage sales environment
• Good communication skills
• Knowledge of the food industry
• Third level degree qualified
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  Posting Type: L

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are currently looking for a Senior Account Manager for our Meat&Meat alternatives team who can be based either in Ireland (hybrid working model) or the UK (home-based role).

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage stakeholder groups within one or more customers
• Achievement of sales budget and target on an annual basis
• Responsible for ensuring all price and commercial agreements are agreed with customers and aligned to Kerry strategies and fully implemented with the customer
• Responsible for driving availability and customer orders as well as Kerry service levels (order fulfillment through to accounts received)
• Actively work with Demand Planning to ensure that the customer sales forecast is accurately reflected in the business sales forecast
• Creating integrated plans that deliver the strategy Supporting brand execution
• Accountable for customer performance, ensuring JBP is a working document bought into by all stakeholders and reflects and achieves sales, profit & brand objectives for Kerry
• Responsible for expert knowledge of their customer, its competitors and the market they operate in
• Responsible for the planning and development of customer promotions
• Accountable for the creation and maintenance of customer business plans (JBP’s)
• Responsible for the negotiation and delivery of the targeted customer trade rate for all activities
• Responsible for delivering accurate forecast working with demand planning