Senior National Account Manager

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 4 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Hello potential future Oatly employee. Its us the original oat drink company that started in Sweden back 25 or so years ago and has since expanded to the UK US and Asia where weve continued growing at a rate such that we need more brilliant minds to come work with us to keep the momentum going and the oat drink flowing.

Sustainability health and transparency are the core values that guide everything we do. Basically we exist to make it easy for people to eat better and live healthier lives without recklessly taxing the planets resources in the process. If any of this resonates with you then maybe youd like work for Oatly too. Now onto the formal stuff.

The Role

Were looking for a Senior National Account Manager (SNAM) to look after 2 of our major Grocery retailers. Oatly has distribution across all of major (and minor) grocery delivering over 100 million in retail value sales. Weve consistently demonstrated the strength of our brand - and that of the plant-based sector - by growing total category value as well as winning market share. But were only just getting started!

Were looking for someone to take our relationships with our major customers to the next level manage complex JBPs and add category value through creative thinking and big ideas! Here are the things we want to hire you to do...

Build strong and honest relationships across your customers enabling you to deliver against commercial goals.
Develop & execute exceptional customer joint business plans that help deliver against both Oatly and the customers targets goals and objectives.
Plan negotiate & execute game changing NPD launches with sustainable long-term commercial agreements in place.
Provide regular accurate volume forecasts based on detailed performance analysis. Youll track against these forecasts and provide clear updates to the business on progress.
Drive trial & awareness of the Oatly portfolio through securing leading feature and display leveraging trade marketing resource effectively to do so.
Work closely with functions across the Oatly business such as Finance and Supply Chain collaborating for the best result across the business

Who You Are

Here are the things we think youll need to succeed In this role:

You have direct experience managing major grocers - ideally Sainsburys or Tesco - at a SNAM or experienced NAM level.
Youve got strong commercial and financial acumen uncluding experience in executing complex JBPs. Youre motivated by hitting and exceeding targets and delivering results.
Youre a strong and natural negotiator understanding variables at play and flexing these as needed.
Youre a data whizz analysing to uncover performance trends and opportunities sharing these internally and externally.
Youre comfortable having difficult conversations. and able to flex your communication style appropriately to different personalities and situations.
Youre a commutable distance to London so you can build relationships both with your customers and the Oatly team.
Were a motivated enthusiastic kind positive and values driven team and we hope youre these things too.
You have an entrepreneurial spirit youre comfortable with ambiguity and are energised by the process of building something lasting from the ground up and getting stuck in when needed.
You feel connected in your own way to our mission of encouraging health sustainability and transparency.

The Perks

Another bulleted list felt redundant so we made a page talking about all the benefits we offer to sweeten the deal working with us before you apply if youre curious check out this fancy page right here.

Phew! Well done if youve got this far. Were glad weve still got your attention because weve got one last super important point to make. As you can probably tell were a norm-breaking company. For us diversity and differences are an obvious asset. We know that amazing candidates can sometimes be put off applying for a job unless they can tick every box and that makes us really sad. So please trust your gut and pop in your application if its feeling right. Good luck!

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