- Providing a best in class administrative support to ensure effective execution of our channel and customer promotional plans.
- Proactively creating and running internal and external reports.
- Maintaining accurate customer pricing to ensure we achieve invoice accuracy first time, every time.
- Playing an active role in developing customer plans and attending customer meetings when needed.
- Working closely with the Customer Business Managers to ensure all customer queries are dealt with in an efficient and timely manner
- You will be passionate; results focused, have a right first time mindset and enjoy working in a fast paced and exciting environment.
- Acting as an ambassador for our business, you will have great Microsoft skills (Excel, Word, Outlook) whilst being able to demonstrate your already established analytical skills.
- You will need to be highly organised, conscientious and a team player who is able to navigate through situations that can sometimes be ambiguous and pressured.
- Have a high level of attention to detail
- Be able to prioritise conflicting work demands across everything you do - managing multiple priorities, stakeholders and deadlines
- Be able to demonstrate a solid understanding of commercial and financial situations
- Be comfortable when working collaboratively and cross functionally
- Have good interpersonal and relationship building skills
- Not afraid to challenge where and when needed be confident with systems and processes
Sales Planning Executive - Gatwick, United Kingdom - Nestle International
Description
Business area: Nestl? UK&I
Location: Gatwick or York (Hybrid working - approx. 2 flexible days a week at one of our fantastic offices)
Salary up to ?30,000 dependant on experience + potential bonus + fantastic benefits
This is a temporary opportunity and here at Nestl? many of our colleagues work flexibly and in many different ways, different core hours and remote working. Please talk to us during the recruitment process about what flexibility could look like for you.
Position Summary
Being a Sales Planning Executive at Nestl? is about being passionate about sales, being proactive, efficient, highly analytical and providing pivotal support to the Nestl? Sales Team. Are you looking for a sales career with a company which has some of the world's leading brands, plus the opportunities that come with working for a global food business? We have a great opportunity based in our Gatwick offices, to work with our sales team as a Sales Planning Executive on a 12 months fixed term contract.
It is pretty hard to beat a sales career here at Nestl?: the thrill of promoting the world's favourite products, the challenge of forging long-term partnerships with major customers, coupled with the satisfaction of tailoring our plans to meet the constantly evolving needs of our customer base across a vast array of commercial situations.
A day in the life of Sales Planning Executive...
It's fair to say this role is varied, working in a fast-paced environment, you will be working closely with the Customer Business Manager to ensure the company's profit and volume objectives are successfully met. This really is an exciting and challenging opportunity, which will see you work hard developing key skills that could stand you in a great position to embark on a progressive and successful sales career here at Nestl?.
Key responsibilities for this role include:
What will make you successful?
To be successful in this role you will ideally already have some fantastic administration experience under your belt. Experience within a commercial environment would be preferable, but it's not essential.
You'll also:
In return we will offer you all the support and training you need to be successful in this role.
Why Nestl??
In the Nestl? Sales Team, we are creating an environment where we all feel we belong, we are the best we can be, and we win together. We want people to feel they can be themselves, dare greatly and believe their best is yet to come.
We will actively encourage you to gain different experience in a wide range of roles including our Category Development teams. We want our people to have the breadth and depth of experience and as a result an unrivalled Sales career which could lead to senior roles both in the UK and across other markets.
Supported by our industry leading eBusiness and Sales Academies which develops you in all aspects of eCommerce, customer and category management, you truly can achieve your full potential whatever that might mean for you.
We will provide support and coaching to help you develop yourself in your career and as an individual, as well as offering great benefits that you'd expect from a business the size of Nestl? - in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus up to an additional 12 days flex leave, bank holiday exchange, competitive pension scheme and much more.
What you need to know
We will be considering and interviewing candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don't delay in submitting your application.
Job advert closing date 12/04/2023
At Nestl?, our values are rooted in respect - for our employees, our customers and our consumers. That's why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process. Be yourself, everyone else is taken