National Account Executive

National Account Executive Up to £42,000 + 10% Bonus London | 3 days per week in office We're proud to be exclusively partnering with a leading global drinks business on an exciting opportunity within its UK Off Trade team. This is a great opportunity for an ambitious commercial professional to join a high-energy team supporting some of the UK's biggest Grocery customers, including Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. The role is initially focused on commercial execution, supply chain and account support, working closely with the wider National Accounts team. However, there is a clear opportunity to develop into direct customer ownership as you build your experience. For someone looking to develop a long-term career in Off Trade and ultimately progress towards a National Account Manager position, this role offers genuine scope to grow. The Role:

• Support the National Accounts team across a portfolio of major Grocery customers.
• Take ownership of day-to-day account execution across invoicing, forecasting, accruals, debt management, EPOS and promotional activity.
• Manage and develop relationships with customer supply chain and operational contacts.
• Lead monthly supply chain meetings, preparing presentations and reviewing availability, forecasts and upcoming requirements.
• Own forecasting activity across your areas, developing a view on performance and proactively challenging assumptions where appropriate.
• Analyse customer and EPOS data to understand what is happening across the accounts, why it is happening and what action should be taken.
• Monitor promotional execution, pricing, retros and agreed activity, identifying discrepancies and resolving issues proactively.
• Work closely with Commercial Marketing to support activations, store lists, performance tracking and reporting.
• Support customer meetings, presentations, account reviews and store visits.
• Provide the wider team with accurate, timely and commercially useful reporting and insight.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes and ways of working across the team.
• Build towards managing your own customer relationships and developing shadow P&L experience as your capability grows.
• Take ownership of agreed projects and proactively look for ways to support the wider commercial team. About You:
• Previous Grocery experience in FMCG would be highly beneficial.
• Commercially curious, proactive and keen to build a career in Off Trade.
• Comfortable working with data and able to turn information into meaningful insight and actions.
• Highly organised with an eagle eye for detail, particularly around pricing, promotions and customer execution.
• Confident working with forecasting, supply chain and account administration.
• Comfortable communicating with external customers and presenting information.
• Able to challenge information constructively and form your own commercial view.
• Proactive enough to identify what needs doing rather than waiting to be given a daily to-do list. Please get in touch with Roxy Gadd or click “Apply Now” to be considered for this vacancy. The Advocate Group is a leading recruitment partner, based in the UK, to the FMCG and consumer product sectors.