National Account Executive (Tesco)
Greater Manchester
£40,000 a year + 550 / month car allowance (or company car)
36 days holiday.
Earn good money, have a great time, progress your career and help a business go from powerful new entrant to market leader. Oh, and do it all with 36 days holiday a year.
The Company
They're built on a the back of a strong, historic Scandinavian business. Which means they have deep pockets to fund their UK incursion. Deep enough to spend over £(phone number removed) on the place you'll call head office, for example.
So - the company isn't going anywhere.
They've indirectly been involved in the UK market for years, then about 18 months ago they launched into the UK directly. They've taken big chunks of market share of their competitors, and they expect to take even more in the coming months.
Also, they're a commercially led business. Growing sales, growing accounts, growing market share, growing profits is the guiding star of the UK operation.
So, working in commercial, that means you. You'll be important. Your career will grow. They also prioritise promoting from within, meaning your hard work can lead to real career advancement opportunities. This is where you come in—your role will be key to continuing this trajectory, and your career will grow along with the business.
The Role
You're supporting the new Senior NAM who has been brought in to manage the Tesco account. She's coming from a competitor, knows Tesco really well, and she's an absolute star.
She's a star, but she's going to need some help.
That's where you come in.
Together, you're going to take sales and profit within the Tesco account to new heights. You're working for a business which has basically kicked the doors down in their category.
You'll be working on all the stuff you'd expect. Support in promotion planning. Project management. Working with forecasting and planning teams. Assisting with cusomter meetings. With performance reviews. Tracking RRPs, supplier ranges, etc, etc.
Basically, working closely with the senior NAM to keep on growing the account and the business.
Unlike a lot of places, you'll be encouraged to get into the factory and talk to people. People in the supply chain. People making the products. The food safety teams.
And that's just the role for now.
They only really want people who want to progress their careers. Who want to grow.
What you might not like
The business is thriving and growing. And its commercially led. But it's also kind of chaotic.
Love a process? Love things to be just so? Love to do things the way they've always been done?
Well, here - they sometimes haven't been done before. And if they have, it might not have been documented. And there probably isn't a set way to do it.
So you'll have to figure some stuff out. As you go.
Without hand holding or a four kilogram ring binder of policies, procedures and the correct way to do any given task.
Other things you might not like.
The commercial team is pretty vibrant. So the floor can be loud. Can be distracting. If you want to work in a library, feel free. But you'll probably want to do it for another company.
And you're going to have to be onsite 3 days a week minimum. Typically Mondays and Fridays are from home, but you can switch between Monday and Tuesday for home-based work as needed.
If you don't want to play with others, to learn from people, to interact, to build real relationships face to face, then again, it probably isn't for you.
You
To do this job well, there's some experience you're going to have to have.
One. Experience.
Tesco experience. And I don't mean working in the store. Working with the Tesco Partners Toolkit, for example.
A year or two is fine, though.
Two. Traits.
You're the kind of person that will fit in and enjoy the culture and the role. You want to grow your career. To progress. You're probably pretty bright and switched on. It wouldn't hurt if you were funny, but when isn't that true?
You want to work hard to get the job done. Take responsibility and challenge and you want to get stuck in. You're social.
Okay.
If that sounds like you? If you've got the experience? Then, even if you're on the fence, pop in your CV (doesn't matter if its out of date) and a few lines about why you're right for it.
We can talk the role through and if it sounds like a good fit, it could be the thing which accelates your career. And if it isn't? Then you've only lost about 10 minutes of your time