Account Executive

The Role

Hain Daniels are currently recruiting for a Account Executive at our Histon facility. In Histon, we manufacture a host of ambient sweetspreads and jellies for our grocery brands. These includes Hartley's jams and jellies, Gale's honey, Rose's and Robertsons marmalade's.

This role will be supporting Head of Sales, Customer Controllers & Customer Managers in the Sales Team, seeking to maximise sustainable profitable growth across Hain Daniels Brand and Retail Own Label. Successful candidate must be able to build strong relationships and interface across multiple functions both internally and externally.

Supports Head of Sales, Customer Controllers & Customer Managers as required. Through project specific tasks builds experience through “doing”.

Role is critical to smooth and efficient running of Customer Accounts, ensuring all administration is kept up to date in line with internal and Customer guidelines. It is a requirement that the jobholder is compliant with Competition Law at all times

Key Responsibilities:

• Keep up to date all Internal and Customer administration, including volume forecasts, promotional loading and accruals, EPOS tracking, invoice price file alignment, and new line form creation.
• Develop expert knowledge of Customer and associated systems and processes, to facilitate administration and information sharing. Keep all systems updated in a timely manner.
• Sales and promotional reporting and analysis (against Budget and YOY), sharing insights to build a more robust P&L.
• Analysing Customer EPOS to track performance/trends
• Work cross functionally across all internal departments, both remotely and at Hain Factory and Office locations. This includes:Category – reviewing market data to compare against Customer EPOS.

NPD and Marketing - completing NPD administration and Customer Shopper activation proposals.
Logistics – accurate forecasting to help co-ordinate continual supply.
Commercial Finance – monitor spend against Budget.

What you will need for the role / what it will take:

• Ideally, minimum of 2 years experience, preferably within a comparable industry.
• Some sales/commercial experience as well as a broad knowledge on product and process.
• Good communication skills, both internally and externally.
• Multi-tasker with excellent attention to detail.
• Project management Work with pace, results focussed.
• Commercial exposure and ability to deal with customers.
• Track record of building customer/supplier relationships to ensure the business plan is achieved.
• Strong competency of Excel and PowerPoint software

What can we offer you?

• Competitive salary / rate of pay
• 25 days annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holiday OR XXXX hours / days
• Option to purchase additional annual leave
• A day off work to support our charity partners
• Flexible working options
• Pension
• Medical benefit
• And access to a HUB that offers many discounts from a range of suppliers and retailers

About Us

The Hain Daniels Group is one of the UK's leading food companies. We create food and drink products with natural goodness at their core. We're the business behind a host of household brands - Hartley's jams and jellies, Sun-Pat peanut butters, New Covent Garden Soup Co., Linda McCartney's meat free food, and Yorkshire Provender to name a few. Nearly half of our business is private label - we create quality freshly prepared fruit and juices, desserts, soups, sweet spreads and meat free products for our retail partners.

Our Vision

To make it easier for everyone to lead a healthier, balanced lifestyle. Without our great team of people, this vision couldn't be our reality.

Top Talent across the UK

Over our 5 sites up and down the UK, we employ circa 1,100 people in roles within Production, Supply Chain, Product Development, Sales and Marketing, and through to our Finance, HR, IT and beyond. Each of our colleagues is vital to our continued success. That's why we target the best talent, and help to develop them through the ranks. In fact, almost a third of our vacancies were internal promotions and transfers last year.

Our Business behaviours

As a business we strive to promote from within and our underlying business behaviours really enable us to drive this strategic objective. We believe we can provide an opportunity for all individuals to grow and achieve with Hain Daniels through demonstrating core behaviours such as ambition & energy, collaborative working, honest communication, innovation, delivering excellent quality, embracing versatility and equality.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent, Graduate

Salary: Up to £31,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Bereavement leave
• Canteen
• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Financial planning services
• Flexitime
• Free or subsidised travel
• Free parking
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Paid volunteer time
• Private dental insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Transport links
• Wellness programme
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Cambridge: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:

• A-Level or equivalent (preferred)

Experience:

• Account management: 1 year (preferred)
• sales: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Cambridge