Commercial Manager

Lacock, Wiltshire

£60,000 - £70,000

Permanent

Our client is looking for a Commercial Manager to join their innovation centre at their facility based in Lacock. They will be responsible for developing relations with the UK’s largest distributors in the UK.

Key Responsibilities – Commercial Manager

• Deliver to a customer centric experience against the Chilled Egg strategy, working alongside a range of major UK supermarket retailers and Foodservice with both branded and own-brand products.
• Identify UK Food Service Distributors, develop commercial plans to win and grow these accounts, meeting budgeted growth and profitability
• Building customer and internal relationships to achieve common goals.
• Delivering profitable growth for the account(s) over a sustained period
• Accountable for ensuring commercial negotiations are aligned to strategic objectives.
• Balance the customer requirements with those of the business to ensure both parties are maximising the relationship, including planning and coordinating price increases within the customer
• Provide sales forecasts and input into demand plans
• Driving visibility and accessibility of Stonegate products within assigned accounts

Qualifications & Requirements – Commercial Manager

• A confident leader with excellent leadership skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills
• Ability to influence internal stakeholders in order to achieve common goals
• High commercial acumen and numerical ability to facilitate effective decision making and
• Proactive management
• Excellent organisation, presentation and project management skills.
• Strong stakeholder relationship skills
• Extensive, dedicated commercial experience within own label and branded food manufacturing.
• Knowledge of working with foodservice outlets such as restaurants & cafes
• Experience of customer visits, audits and food quality audits such as BRC.
• In-depth knowledge of negotiation strategies and risk/value analysis
• Excellent understanding of policies and business processes on negotiating deals
• Significant and demonstrable experience of negotiating with customers
• 2 years’ experience in a similar role
• Extensive, dedicated commercial experience within own label and branded food manufacturing.
• Knowledge of working with foodservice outlets such as restaurants & cafes

What we can offer – Commercial Manager

• Company Pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free parking
• On site gym
• Referral programme
• Canteen

For more information on this role, please contact Zoey Bunn on (phone number removed) or send a copy of your CV to (url removed)

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