National Account Manager

Summary

Join Fresh Direct as a National Account Manager and enhance your career in national accounts within a fast-growing food service business. This remote-based role, with frequent travel required, offers a competitive salary, attractive bonus, and company car. You will be responsible for managing an individual portfolio, meeting profitability and growth targets, and collaborating with other departments. Success requires strong commercial acumen, target-driven experience, and excellent communication skills. Fresh Direct values diversity and inclusion, creating a welcoming and supportive work environment.

Requirements

• Possess good commercial acumen with the ability to deal with numbers
• Demonstrate experience of delivering against targets
• Have a genuine interest in the hospitality industry
• Ideally hold some experience of working within national frameworks agreements, Supply chain, contract caterers, pubs and restaurants
• Demonstrate a proven ability to build strong long-lasting relationships
• Possess first-rate communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written
• Have strong IT skills – PowerPoint and Excel

Responsibilities

• Be fully responsible for profit and loss of a national account portfolio
• Develop and execute strategic joint business plans with customers
• Own and deliver against agreed Joint Business plans with Key Customers
• Liaise directly with key stakeholders to ensure implementation of account plans
• Be responsible for price review implementation, acting as a consultant and market expert for your customers
• Understand competitor activity & proposals, ensuring you are always offering your customers the best local and national solutions
• Maintain comprehensive record keeping via Salesforce

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Attractive bonus
• Brilliant rewards and recognition scheme
• Company car
• Home-based contract