Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family!
At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations: -
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Private health scheme
- Employee discount scheme
- Experience annual pay reviews
- Profit related pay
- Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities
The Opportunity
In this role you will be responsible for the relationship and management of Tesco within the meals business. We currently supply meals ranges across a number of cuisine types into multiple retail customers.
You will build close and trusted relationships with the customers to ensure we have full visibility and are active leaders within the categories we operate to leverage all opportunities and increase our influence. You will be the key contact through which all communication will be managed in and out of the business.
Key Responsibilities:
- Active management and full accountability of all financial metrics to the agreed minimum gross margin %
- Take a leadership role across all functions in key decision-making using experience, judgment, and commercial acumen with a full understanding of any potential impact to the business or customer with mitigating factors.
- Work with development, process, technical and operations to track the progress of NPD/EPD/E2E launches to ensure all target dates are hit and commercial/financial expectations are tracked and measured. This also includes the active mitigation of any impact due to the delisting of products, high MOQ’s or any other stock exposures.
- Play an active role in the development of the business strategy and the scope of each customer within the strategy.
- Development and implementation of customer plans through effective category and development insight which elevates Samworth Brothers meals within our customers to a category leader and supplier of choice.
The Ideal Candidate
We believe that success is built upon collaboration and diverse perspectives. At Samworth Brothers, we welcome candidates who are passionate about working together to achieve greatness. As a valued member of our team, you will bring the following skills and experience:
- Degree education or equivalent preferred.
- Experienced within FMCG with Food Manufacturing
- Excellent leadership skills with strong interpersonal and communication skills to enable highly effective influencing across the business, group and customers.
- High commercial acumen and numerical ability to facilitate effective decision making and proactive management to minimize any impact
- Strong organizational, presentation and project management skills to assist with deadline delivery
We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.
Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member – you'll be an integral part of our thriving family. Apply today and embark on an exciting journey with us!