Client Account Manager Chertsey, England
Job description
We ensure you're rewarded for all your hard work, which is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
- Contributory pension scheme
- Grow your career with our Career Pathways and MyLearning programmes
- Exclusive travel discounts with TUI, Expedia, Booking.com and many more
- Save money on your food shop with discounts on Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and many more
- Up to 44% off cinema tickets to enjoy your favourite blockbuster
- Receive Wow Points every time you spend and use them on a wide range of brands
- Un-wind with us with free wellness, mindfulness and exercise classes
- You can share all discounts and offers with your friends and families
- Develop the portfolio of accounts within to ensure retention and growth
- Accountable for P&L performance of accounts, healthcare external client volume, revenue and profit
- Develop and deliver robust account plans to deliver account strategies that grow our client volume and fee revenue through the development and execution of category supply chain solutions across food, non-food, retail
- Manage channel pipeline to ensure continual growth and value-added activity across client base
- Build strong and productive relationships across all clients
- Support any new business presentations, where necessary, in conjunction with Foodbuy Business development team to attract new clients to Foodbuy
- Represent Foodbuy at influential healthcare market and industry events to develop the Foodbuy brand proposition and awareness
This is a role for an exceptional and proven Account Manager that can lead and develop the external client proposition within Foodbuy, a self-starter with energy and enthusiasm to deliver Account objectives:
Skills required:
- Established Account Manager with a minimum of 5 years Account Management experience across multiple Accounts, with a proven track record of success in retention and growth
- Experience of Account Management within the Food Service sector or Healthcare sector would be preferable
- Procurement experience or experience of delivering sustainable procurement strategies into client accounts preferable
- Commercially astute with Experience of managing P&L’s across a portfolio of Accounts
- Experienced in developing Account Plans and building and developing Client relationships
- Experienced in implementing and driving through growth and retention activity
- Evidence of adapting and implementing client value propositions
Foodbuy is a leading food procurement organisation based in the UK. With over £1bn of managed spend, we bring together the widest range of foodservice and hospitality clients on the planet to buy food, and everything associated with it. We work closely with our clients to deliver expert procurement services saving them both time and money and enabling them to focus on what really matters to their businesses.
We're looking to hire a Client Account Manager to direct account management activity for a selected portfolio of Foodbuy healthcare accounts. The Client Account Manager will be responsible for developing and delivering the account plan and defining the strategy for retention and growth across their designated portfolio. You will support the new business development team on any Sales opportunities within their assigned channel throughout the sales process. The Client Account Manager will be responsible for developing robust relationships across our existing client base and will develop the Foodbuy proposition in their channel of expertise.
This role is a critical hire to shape the future direction of the Foodbuy external client proposition.
