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Career Opportunities: (Home office) Account Manager BeNeLux - Savoury & Snacks (56096)

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Full Remote
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Senior (5-10 years)
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Offer summary

Qualifications:

Minimum 5 years in Account Management, Experience in Flavours Business in BeNeLux, Strong commercial acumen required, Customer relationship building expertise.

Key responsabilities:

  • Maximize profitability of channels
  • Manage customer strategy and plans
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Job description

 

Requisition ID: 56096 
Position Type: FT Permanent 
Workplace Arrangement:   

About Kerry

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

About the role

Due to growth and demand, we now have an exciting new opportunity to expand the team and recruit an Account Manager – Benelux.
Aim: To develop and accelerate further growth in Central Europe by a bigger focus on Savoury /Taste business.

The candidate can be home based either in Belgium or the Netherlands.

Key responsibilities

•  New Account Manager to be part of the Savoury, Snacks and PMSSD team which takes care of nutritional food companies in the Central region.
•  Deliver & maximize the budgeted profitability of the defined channel
•  Accountable for the performance of a customer management team
•  Provide expert knowledge of customers to key cross functional stakeholder groups
•  In collaboration with the Sales Director, prioritizing, managing and allocating budgets and resources for the defined customers/channel
•  Accountable for driving excellence in customer business planning and delivery
•  Management of key activities, linking consumer and shopper plans to customer strategy
•  Ensure category & brand strategies/plans are reflected in customer plans.
•  Building senior level customer relationships to leverage Kerry’s market performance
•  Accountable for the development and direction of customer strategy and activation plans, detailing clear targets per brand/product/account delivered through agreed joint business plans
•  Responsible for co-creating relevant strategies that connect consumer and customer thinking into a single plan
•  Accountable for identification of the customer opportunity for all new innovation projects
•  Initial customer/channel feasibility for all innovation projects.
•  Accountable for ensuring an optimum plan is in place with all strategic customers for innovation (generation & delivery)

Qualifications and skills

•  Minimum 5 years of experience in the role of Account Manager, preferably in Flavours Business, Food Ingredients and in BeNeLux region

•  Experience in working with Global Customers
•  Experience in the savoury market with taste background
•  Strong commercial acumen, confidence to make commercially sound decisions
•  Ability to build, lead, negotiate and conclude commercially sound customer plans.
•  Pro-actively identifies and unlocks opportunities
•  Numerate with a good understanding of business drivers.
•  Proven ability in analyzing and interpreting all available data
•  Solid understanding of commercial elements
•  Able to build a robust portfolio plan
•  Demonstrates good customer awareness
•  Excellent relationship building skills
•  Excellent communication and presentation skills
•  Demonstrates a high level of drive
•  Languages: English and Dutch are key but preferably additional skills in a languages from the Central region

Please note: We do not accept CVs or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies where Kerry terms of business have not been signed. Additionally, we will not consider or agree to payment of any recruiter fee under these circumstances. This also applies to CVs or candidate profiles sent directly to any Kerry Hiring Managers.

 

Beware of scams online or from individuals claiming to represent us. A Kerry employee will not solicit candidates through a non-Kerry email address or phone number. In addition, Kerry does not currently utilise video chat rooms (e.g., Google Hangouts) to conduct interviews. Refuse any request that asks you to provide payment to participate in the hiring process (e.g., purchasing a “starter kit,” investing in training, or something similar). Kerry will not ask you to pay any money at any point in the hiring process with the exception of reimbursable travel expenses. In addition, any payments made by Kerry will be from official firm accounts bearing the Kerry name.

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Experience

Level of experience: Senior (5-10 years)
Industry :
Food & Beverages
Spoken language(s):
English
Check out the description to know which languages are mandatory.

Other Skills

  • Business Acumen
  • Strategic Planning
  • Presentations
  • Problem Solving
  • Team Leadership
  • Communication
  • Negotiation

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