Business Account Manager

Location: Hybird Working from Glasgow or Sheffield

Shift: Weekdays

Salary: Competitive with Opportunity for Growth

We have an opportunity for a Business Account Manager to join our Commercial Team.

Finsbury Food Group is a leading speciality bakery manufacturer. We constantly raise quality and efficiency standards, and build long-term relationships with major multiple retailers and the foodservice channel. The bread for your morning toast, ready for butter-spreading or egg-dipping. The candle-filled centrepiece for a memorable celebration. The buns, muffins and other treats that turn teatime into quality time. We make 75% of the UK’s sharing cakes from retailer own brands cakes, tray bakes through to party cakes like Caterpillar cakes This is what we do, and why we’re in business. Baking brilliance makes every day special.

The Business Account Manager’s role is to create long-term, trusting relationships with our customers and to oversee a portfolio of assigned customers, develop new business from existing clients and actively seek new sales opportunities.

This is a fast paced role, where the successful candidate will have proven work experience as an Account Manager, Key Account Manager, Sales Account Manager, Junior Account Manager or relevant role. They must be able to demonstrable the ability to communicate, present and influence key stakeholders at all levels of an organisation, including executive and Board level.

This role offers Hybrid working as an option from either our Glasgow or Sheffield or site. On occasion you will be required to attend one of our other sites (Manchester, Sheffield, Glasgow, Cardiff or Salisbury) for meetings which could be weekly or monthly, depending on the requirement.

This is a great opportunity for someone to gain experience with one of the UK’s largest bakery businesses. They’ll work closely with a friendly and engaging team from both a site and group perspective, offering opportunities for growth and long-term career development.

This is what you’ll actually do!

As the Business Account Manager you will serve as the lead point of contact for all customer account management matters and build and maintain strong, long-lasting customer relationships. Will excellent negotiation skills they will negotiate contracts and close agreements to maximize profits. The BAM will ensure the timely and successful delivery of our solutions according to customer needs and objectives.

With strong communication skills they will clearly communicate the progress of monthly/quarterly initiatives to internal and external stakeholders, develop new business with existing clients and/or identify areas of improvement to meet sales quotas whilst collaborating with the sales team to develop growth opportunities.

Ideally this is you!

• Proven work experience as an Account Manager, Key Account Manager, Sales Account Manager, Junior Account Manager or relevant role
• Demonstrable ability to communicate, present and influence key stakeholders at all levels of an organization, including executive and Board level
• Solid experience with MS Office (particularly MS Excel)
• Experience delivering client-focused solutions to customer needs
• Proven ability to juggle multiple account management projects at a time, while maintaining sharp attention to detail
• Excellent listening, negotiation and presentation abilities
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• BA/BS degree in Business Administration, Sales or relevant field

Our vision is to be the leading speciality bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!