Sales Lead - London, United Kingdom - Upfield

Upfield

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

6 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you the Sales Leader in the Grocery channel? Do you excel in managing customer relationships, closing JBP's and hitting the numbers? Would you like join our exciting journey in plant-based food, lead and develop a senior sales team, with opportunity to progress personally? Then this role is for you

Location:
UK, London, Southwark

Hybrid: 3 days in office and client travel throughout UK

About the position
You might know Upfield, as we are a former Unilever business unit. We are the world's biggest food production company for Plant-Based products.

In the UK we known for our brands like Flora, Elmlea, Stork, I Cant Believe its Not Butter and Violife (Vegan Cheese).

We have both a Core Retail business as well as a growing Foodservice team.

Our vision for a "Better Plant-Based Future" drives positive change in people's health, their daily lives, and our planet's sustainability.

Important within Upfield is the focus on strong performing cross-category teams, to drive the most profitable growth, and development as teams and as individuals.

This is a critical (and high profile) role within the UK&I Organisation, You will have direct P&L Responsibility for our Top 6 UK Retail Customers with a team of 5 Direct Reports (SNAM's) and will own customer relationships at a Cat D level.

Experience delivering large scale JBP Negotiation's (inc Private Label) with a Multi-Year Focus is essential and a track record of taking ownership for S&OP/Forecasting is vital.

It will be your responsibility to coach, develop and prepare your team for their next adventures within our global firm and continue our impressive track record of internal progression.

What does it take to be successful?

For our new Business Unit Lead, or as we call it, Sales Lead we are looking for a top performer with an outstanding sales background in FMCG retail.

You are experienced managing multiple P&L's at the same time, with a track record of delivering "the total number". Line management capability is essential, ideally with a passion for leading and developing a team of people. (the previous Sales Lead has been promoted and is now Sales Director, your line manager)

As a person you have high energy, ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels and solve problems to drive the UK&I Business

Mindset is everything in our agile organization. The ability to identify, understand and implement solutions to complex problems and push process developments is also critical. You will need to be highly motivated, critical, organized, and resilient under pressure. We operate with a startup mentality, where processes are to be challenged, improved and built.

What's next

Upfield is an employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and equal opportunities for all. We recruit based only on values, qualifications, performance, skills, behaviours, experience, and knowledge. We ensure job advertisements are free from unintentional bias._
No personal characteristics should be a barrier to joining Upfield. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other personal characteristics._

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