Junior Account Executive

Junior Account Executive

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a wonderful company based in Henley-On-Thames as a Junior Account Executive on a permanent basis. With an ambitious growth target, we are looking for an enthusiastic, passionate, and talented individual. This is an excellent opportunity for a graduate looking to get their foot in the door with an excellent, supportive business.

You will be joining a team of people who meet personal and business challenges with hard work and a smile. They not only see things as they are and ask why - but see things that never were and ask why not.

Role activities / responsibilities

• Work closely with the National Account managers to help deliver the UK Net Sales targets in line with budgets.
• Work closely and collaboratively with the Customer Order Manager in the Operations Team.
• Bring to life commercial and brand plans by ensuring all customer admin is completed accurately and on time.
• Build great relationships with customers, ask questions, listen, understand, and communicate effectively internally and externally in line with the company values.
• Help to accurately report what is happening in the market. This will include; tracking EPOS weekly sales numbers, sales, individual account trade spend and tracking promotional performance.
• You will help the Dealers forecast the customers' needs to ensure great forecast plans for the planners to work to.
• Help to build amazing JBP's that motivate customers and deliver against the targets set as a business.
• Support with building bottom-up plans at a SKU level to ensure the right choices are being made not only commercially but for our families who buy the products.
• Contribute to a broad range of cross functional teams.
• Communicate with confidence delivering information and feedback on your customer to a number of internal stakeholders.

You will need:

• Have a willingness to learn and be challenged to think differently.
• Embrace, embody and exude all that is special and unique about the business
• Have excellent commercial & numeracy skills.
• Have awesome relationship building skills and top notch questioning skills.
• Be a brilliant communicator and networker.
• Be a proactive thinker and able to make the time to think about what you're doing.
• Be able to thrive in an entrepreneurial, exciting environment.
• Influence others through your flexible style.
• Have a results focussed mind-set with the ability to "never never give up" and find solutions to challenges.
• Have a great grasp of MS Office (Excel in particular).