National Account Manager

Ref: AS8572582

Salford, Greater Manchester

£40,000

• Permanent
• Foodservice Account Growth
• Strategic Partnerships
• Commercial Planning

About the candidate

A commercially focused sales professional with a strong background in foodservice account management across vending, on-trade and quick service restaurant channels. They have built a solid track record of creating strategic partnerships, developing joint business plans and using insight-led decision making to improve customer performance.

They bring strong commercial acumen, confident stakeholder management and a proactive, collaborative approach. Available to start in 2 weeks, they are looking for a permanent opportunity where they can continue driving revenue growth, customer satisfaction and long-term account development.

What makes them great?

• Proven sales growth: Delivered around 30% sales growth over two years through strategic account planning and tailored customer solutions.
• Strong market impact: Contributed to around 15% year-on-year market share growth by working closely with marketing and operations teams to improve promotional visibility.
• Successful product launches: Used market insight and customer collaboration to support new product lines that exceeded sales forecasts by around 20%.

Areas of expertise

• Foodservice account management: Experienced in managing key customer relationships across vending, on-trade and quick service restaurant markets.
• Joint business planning: Skilled at building strategic plans that align customer needs with commercial objectives and long-term growth.
• Commercial analysis: Confident using data, market trends and customer insight to shape forecasts, promotional activity and new product opportunities.