Account Executive

Listed by Allied Bakeries

This top UK bakery business baking some of Britains famous brands namely: Kingsmill Allinson Burgen and Sunblest and crumpets hot cross buns muffins pancakes rolls wraps plus other mouthwatering bakery products is one of three divisions of Allied Milling and Baking. Allied Milling and Baking is part of Associated British Foods ABF plc a large international business boasting of a turnover to the tune of 12.3bn with nearly 106000 employees operating in 47 countries.

Job Specification

Job Description

Allied Bakeries is one of three divisions of Allied Milling and Baking, which in turn is a part of Associated British Foods (ABF) plc, a major international business with a turnover of £12.9bn and close to 118,000 employees working in 47 countries. In the UK, well-known ABF brands include: Twinings, Silver Spoon, Primark, Ryvita, Ovaltine, Patak's Dorset and Jordans Cereals.

The Role

• Support the Customer Managers, Customer Director and the Customer themselves in delivering activities to achieve revenue and profit targets
• Drive own development in the skills of account management through hands on experience and coaching from colleagues to progress through the business

Key Accountabilities

• Support activity on the account (including but not limited to administration, samples, co-ordination of events, preparation of presentations, project management, etc)
• Maintain quality relationships at a Buying Assistant level within the customer
• Co-ordinate communication both internally and externally on account activity
• Co-ordinate the execution of customer plans as created by Customer Managers
• Anticipate problems/opportunities in account to enable Allied to lead the market place pro-actively as opposed to being reactive to events
• Manage and track the accounts trade investment (promotions, invoicing, accruals, claims, etc)
• Track and report account performance
• Provide analysis, insight and reporting from one of the customers systems
• Interact and develop cross functional relationships within Allied, key interactions include Shopper & Consumer Marketing, Category, Field Sales, Technical, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Finance

Experience and qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Previous experience in FMCG
• Excellent analytical ability with strong verbal and numerical skills
• Excellent communication skills at all levels
• Tenacious
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Good attention to detail and ability to prioritise multiple tasks
• Fully conversant with Microsoft Office including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook
• A full UK driving license is required

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