Business Account Manager - Variety Discount

Sales | Leeds | Full Time | Permanent

We are Dr. Oetker. Since our beginnings, we have been breaking new ground. With pizza, cake, and desserts at the core of our business, as well as digital platforms and services – we create the "Taste of Home" for millions around the world with you.

Are you ready for a new challenge? Then take your next step.

Your responsibilities:

Great news! We have a fantastic opportunity for a Business Account Manager (BAM) to join our Sales Team working within the Discount Channel.

Working with our variety discounters means you’ll be covering accounts such as Home Bargain/TJ Morris, B&M, Farmfoods, Heron, The Range, Poundland and clearance across the UK business.

In this role you’ll manage sales for both pizza and baking categories. You’ll be responsible for growing sales, volume, and profit, building strong relationships with customers, and working closely with tams across the business. You’ll also partner with the Head of Sales to deliver customer and channel strategies and become the internal expert for this channel.

We’re looking for someone who can:

• Create and own clear business plans that meet sales, volume and profit targets.
• Lead regular business reviews with customers, using category and performance data.
• Manage all customer related activity, including promotions, invoices, forecasts and join business plans.
• Own the monthly account forecast and share key market insights clearly across the business.
• Lead customer meetings and internal reviews to identify and maximise growth opportunities.
• Support and guide our third-party field sales team, including sharing retailer insights and spending time in store with them.

As a global, family run business our culture is important to us. All our employees are inspired and motivated to create a competitive advantage in the marketplace for our customers and consumers, whilst having fun at the same time!

A career at Dr. Oetker will provide you with:  

• Strong leadership within a supportive, collaborative team culture.
• Real ownership of your role, with the guidance and support to succeed.
• Clear direction, along with the opportunity to shape and develop your future career.

What you bring:

• Curiosity and strong commercial acumen.

• A growth mindset, with a continuous drive to improve and innovate
• Accountability and a strong sense of ownership for your work and results. 

The role will be homebased, but you do need to be able to commute to our Leeds Head Office, Leyland Production site and other external internal and customer locations for face-to-face collaboration and to meet business requirements.                     

What we offer:

The BAM role offers a competitive salary alongside many other benefits including.

• 15% bonus scheme (annual & based on eligible earnings)
• Company car / car allowance scheme
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Free life assurance 4x annual salary
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme (3% employee contributions, 6% employer contributions)
• Private health care provided by Bupa (single cover)
• Health Care Cash Plan Scheme (provided by Bupa)
• Annual healthy heart MOT’s
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Enhanced Company Sick Pay
• State of the art office environment with free Wi-Fi, tea, coffee, fruit and snacks
• Onsite free car park
• Employee referral scheme (£350 per referral, you’ll want to tell your friends and family all about us!)
• Incentivised employee suggestion schemes
• Employee loyalty scheme, recognising length of service milestones at 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20 years and beyond.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Free eye test vouchers
• A great place to work and access to our cake & pizza products!