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England
45000 - 50000
Perm
National Account Manager
Working for the UK’s leading packaging business
Territory: National coverage (with specific focus on wider Midlands region)
Package: Basic salary up to £50,000 (dependent on experience)
Plus additional lucrative OTE, company Car (or allowance), smartphone, I-Pad & excellent PLC company benefits
Sectors: National Retail Sector
 
Are you a National Account Manager within the packaging/print sector, experienced in managing major retail customers? Would you relish the opportunity to now join the UK’s leading packaging business? If so, we’d love to hear from you…If so, we’d love to hear from you…

 
The Company
We, the UK’s largest packaging distributor have an exciting opportunity for an experienced National Account Manager to come and represent us. You will join our successful national accounts team and enjoy a varied territory sales role. We are a committed equal opportunities employer that champions ‘dignity in the workplace’. Our focus is to provide customers with fully integrated and innovative packaging solutions, augmented by outstanding customer service. Appointing and nurturing sales talent across our business is key to our continued growth.


 
The National Account Manager (Retail) Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Retail division of our National Accounts team at Macfarlane Packaging. Join us and you will enjoy responsibility for the management and development of a significant portfolio of major retail customers (typically with annual spend in excess of £250-£500k). We are proud to have several of the UK’s best known high street and online brands as our customers and it’s important that we continue to provide continual improvement and deliver innovative solutions to their needs whilst ensuring first class customer service delivery. Taking ownership of a significant (multi-channel) client portfolio you will develop and deliver a sustainable sales & margin growth strategy, aligning industry best practice, key customer learnings and external market demands, liaising and working collaboratively with internal stakeholders to ensure all customer needs are met and commercials are delivered.


 
Do you have the correct profile?
You will be a packaging-sales experienced national accounts manager, ideally accustomed to a balanced role that focusses fairly evenly on existing account management and proactive sales development. A background in packaging sales (or similarly aligned print design solutions) would be preferable and we are keen to speak with applicants who have already enjoyed success in selling packaging solutions to major UK retailers (online & high street brands. You will more likely enjoy success within this role if you are familiar with a more technical solution based selling approach.  
It’s also important that you are an analytical and strategic thinker with first class presentation and communication & interpersonal skills, coupled with strong project management skills and the ability to work collaboratively with internal stakeholders.


 
The Rewards
We are keen to tailor an attractive package to secure the top sales talent for this key appointment… including an attractive basic salary negotiable based on experience and a genuinely uncapped commission scheme. We also operate a significant profit linked annual bonus scheme, a good choice of company cars (or allowance), smartphone & I-Pad. Our flexible benefits package includes: 25 days annual leave (rising up to 27 days with service plus all bank holidays), additional holiday purchasing scheme, contributory pension, private health (Bupa) & employee discount scheme. Macfarlane Group is also dedicated to maximizing every employee’s potential, by providing career development plans and pathways in an environment that fosters personal growth and continuous improvement.


 
How to apply/next steps
This is a key appointment whereby we will be working to identify and review the very best of applicants swiftly in the hope of selecting our favoured candidate to commence with us in early January. To make an application please simply click ‘apply’ ensuring that your CV is up to date and relevant. All applications will be acknowledged, shortlisted applicants normally hearing from us within a week or two. Unsuccessful applicants will also be notified at the end of our process, although if you haven’t heard from us within a fortnight of applying, please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.


 
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