Position Snapshot

Business Area: Nestlé Ireland
Job Title: Senior National Account Manager – Grocery Mults.
Location: Dublin: Hybrid working: approx. 2-3 days per week in our Dublin office
Salary from €70k - €80k depending on experience + car allowance + bonus + generous pension scheme + 12 flexible days on top of 25 day holiday entitlement + 2 paid volunteering days + other fantastic benefits!
 
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Position Summary
As part of our exciting sales transformation strategy, we are expanding our Nestlé Ireland Sales team and are delighted to be recruiting for this newly created Senior National Account Manager position based at our head office in Dublin, Ireland.

As a Senior National Account Manager, you’ll be responsible for the leadership and delivery of a profitable market share winning plan driven by the development and negotiation of Joint Business Plans with our Grocery Multiple Customers. You will also have responsibility for the full management and accountability of the customer/category/format P&L, including Sales Revenue, Trade Spend, Promotional ROI, Market Share and Profit targets.

A little bit about us
Nestlé UK & Ireland is a subsidiary of Nestlé SA, the world’s largest food and beverage company. Nestlé's purpose is enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. We want to help shape a better and healthier world. We also want to inspire people to live healthier lives. This is how we contribute to society while ensuring the long-term success of our company.

A day in the life of a Senior National Account Manager ….
Reporting to the National Account Controller, you will be responsible for developing customer relationships and delivering profitable sustainable growth through the day-to-day management of the commercial plan. You will work closely with experienced colleagues within the Customer Business Team and the Category Development Team to deliver growth and market share. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Develop and lead the negotiation of the annual Customer Business Plans which deliver against internal and external strategies & KPI
• Analysing of data sets (EPOS, Nielson, CIM, SRM) to build commercial plans which optimise KPI delivery
• The timely and accurate execution of Customer Plans, providing excellent communication to Customers, completing all required internal and external documentation and alignment to ensure perfect execution of customer plans
• Lead Customer Contact Strategy and build powerful relationships cross functionally at appropriate levels
• Accountable for the indirect leadership of Category and Marketing teams to facilitate best in class category strategies & activation. Use well developed skills to facilitate best in class selling stories, in-store activation and promotional performance
• Deploy customer, shopper and category insight to identify optimum portfolio mix for the customer and shopper. Lead cross functional teams to deliver portfolio range for customer.
• Own and develop promotional plan to include revenue, trade spend & promotion activation details including, timing, mechanics & estimated amount sold on deal (uplift &/or total)
• The timely participation and input into all relevant internal planning processes (weekly, monthly and quarterly) / Monthly Business Planning Cycle (MBP). Utilise multiple data sets to create guidance to build understanding of external performance dynamics
• The timely communication with field ops where relevant to enable field teams at the point of purchase. Selling story's, briefs etc.

What will make you successful
To be successful, you’ll already have a fantastic breadth of sales or commercial experience under your belt with previous experience within FMCG categories.  

A strategic thinker with strong commercial awareness and excellent numeracy skills, you’ll be able to communicate persuasively and credibly to multiple stakeholders internally as well to customers externally. You will need to demonstrate a proactive, entrepreneurial and innovative mind-set.  We’re looking for an experienced Sales professional with the following skills and experience:

• Customer leadership/P&L experience (with grocery mults) 
• Multi-category experience desirable
• Strong influencing skills and a high degree of adaptability is required
• Demonstrate agile thinking and inspirational leadership as we shape our plans to win in this dynamic marketplace
• Category management knowledge
• Negotiating skills and experience of managing complexity and ambiguity
• Shows proactive attitude / is a self-starter
• Naturally curious, crucial that you be able to take the initiative when faced with any obstacle
• Results focused & highly driven

What you need to know
What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays plus flex leave, a defined benefit pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

Job advert posting date 29/05/2025
Job advert closing date 12/06/2025

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. 
 
 
At Nestlé, our values are deeply rooted in respect – for our employees, our customers and our consumers.  That’s why championing diversity and inclusion is a part of our organisations DNA; we’re immensely proud too that Nestlé Ireland is one of only a few  companies in Ireland to qualify for and hold Gold Accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We know 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 recruit people who respect our values, we provide equal opportunities for all, and we protect everyone's privacy.  Our aim is to have a workplace where everyone feels included and able to bring their whole self to work. 

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