Account Manager – Printed Packaging

Our World Class Client specialises in the supply of high quality print services to the Retail Sector.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who loves managing existing accounts but also enjoys the freedom and variety travelling to various clients across the UK offers.

Job Purpose Summary:

To maintain existing relationships with customers and liaise with supply chain to ensure consistent high level of service. Maintain regular contact with customers, developing long-term relationships with customers.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Developing defined sectors and accounts annualising contracts where possible and ensuring orders are covered with PO’s
Maintaining and growing margins through negotiating pricing with customers and competitive costs from suppliers
Managing existing relationships with customers with regular customer business reviews, identifying and gathering product demand.
Customer forecasts to be relayed to Company planning team on a weekly / monthly basis as appropriate and updating monthly
Sign off artwork redesigns

Person Specification:-
Strong customer relationship building skills
Numerate and ability to read P&L and understand margins
Computer literate
Excellent time management
Attention to detail
Candidates MUST have experience of managing accounts in the retail and or food sector.

***Please supply CV in word rather than PDF***

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This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :-

Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head of Print recruitment–Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head Paper recruitment – Gary Young – gary@harrison-scott.co.uk

Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies –

George Thompson – george@harrison-scott.co.uk

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management, in fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.