Vacancies Senior Account Manager

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792 weve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color peoples lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands including Dulux International Sikkens and Interpon is trusted by customers around the globe. Were active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. Its what youd expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company thats dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today while creating an even better tomorrow. Lets paint the future together.

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Senior Account Manager
Competitive salary plus market leading benefits package
Location: Slough
Full time

Were looking for an Account Manager to play a key role in driving the commercial performance and strategic partnership with one of our most significant retail this role youll work closely with the Customer Business Lead to deliver the customer strategy manage day to day relationships and unlock growth across our AkzoNobel decorative brands.

At AkzoNobel were proud of our strong retail partnerships and customer first mindset. Youll join a collaborative high performing commercial team where your account management expertise financial acumen and ability to influence will have a direct impact on business success. We invest in developing our people to enable them to reach their full potential bringing opportunities to further your career.

What youll do:
Support the delivery of the strategic and commercial ambition for the account.
Own the day to day relationship with Buyers across the AkzoNobel portfolio.
Prepare and implement account specific strategies aligned to sales profit and business objectives.
Deliver agreed volume sales margin and cash collection targets across assigned brands.
Manage financial performance including P&L fixed costs margins R&As GIV and budgets.
Lead the execution of commercial plans including range reviews promotions category activity and new product listings.
Drive operational excellence ensuring strong forecasting promotional planning and budget control.
Develop supply chain strategies to maximise availability and growth across key categories.
Use data and insight to identify customer opportunities and improve commercial performance.
Act as the key interface between the customer and internal teams including Finance Marketing Category Insights and Supply Chain.

What you bring:
Proven commercial sales experience with strong account management capability.
Solid understanding of how retail customers activate brands and categories.
Strong financial acumen including experience managing P&L and budgets.
Excellent communication and influencing skills with internal and external stakeholders.
Ability to work effectively across multiple functions and manage complex relationships.
Confident using data and insight to drive commercial decisions.
Clean UK driving licence (essential) travel required both to customer and 1 office weekly.

Who you are:
Customer focused and commercially driven.
Organised resilient and able to prioritise in a fast paced environment.
A strong relationship builder who collaborates well across teams.
Confident working autonomously in a home based role.
Positive proactive and motivated to deliver results and develop professionally.

Why AkzoNobel
At AkzoNobel youll find opportunities to grow develop and make a real impact. Youll work with market leading brands supportive colleagues and customers who value strong partnershipsall while helping shape the future of our retail business.

Ready to take the next step in your commercial career
Apply now and help us continue building a successful partnership with one of our key customers.

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At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when our organization all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age or disability.

Requisition ID:52859