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Junior Account Manager

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Junior Account Manager

Full time

Onsite, Lincoln

£35,000

Benefits

* 4.5 working week, finishing at 12:30pm on a Friday

* 25 days annual leave, plus Bank Holidays

* Company bonus scheme

* Enhanced pension contributions

* Private Health Insurance

* Life Assurance & critical illness cover

* Onsite Parking

* Discounts platform

* Long service celebrations

* Employee Assistance Programme

* Free fruit & potatoes

* Electric salary sacrifice car scheme

* Flu vaccines

* Refer a friend scheme

The company

From our sites in Lincoln, Scotland and the Southwest, we supply some of the largest retail, wholesale and food manufacturing customers in the UK.

Our expertise goes much further than just supply and demand. We offer our customers real innovation, whether developing new potato varieties, packaging solutions or cutting-edge processes. And it’s not just fresh potatoes. We're also continually developing our great range of innovative, ready-to-cook prepared vegetables.

At Branston we thrive to be the best, through our values and invest in our people. This is a fast-paced environment and looking for someone who is adaptable in their approach.

Are you looking for a new role where you can develop your career?

As a Junior Account Manager, you will focus on our Prepared Retail business with the responsibility of supporting in driving new customer development and growth, as well as looking after our existing customer portfolio.

With customer account management responsibility of our Prepared accounts, you will have a key role in building excellent commercial, development, marketing, and technical relationships as you work to own and develop long-term customer plans.

What you will be doing:

* You will be the first point of contact for our customers commercial team and ensure all their requests and targets are achieved

* Support in developing a plan to grow the sales and profit of the prepared business unit in line with our long term strategy

* Identify opportunities to grow the account and prepared business unit

* Ownership of the budgeting, forecasting and longer-term planning for our prepared accounts to support procurement and business development

* Support our internal departments with the creation of customer sell plans

* Support our wider commercial team with daily and weekly reporting

* Work on proactive management of any supply challenges and keep customers appraised

What we want from you:

Essential

* FMCG or retail background with a passion for food

* Proficient in Microsoft Office

* Strong communication and organisational skills

* Strong data analysis skills and the ability to make recommendations from data

Desirable

* Experience of financial process application to support commercial relationships

* Business degree or relevant qualification