POS Account Director

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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.

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Our client creates and delivers innovative, sustainable packaging solutions, achieving this by having a fantastic team in place and through providing outstanding service and quality, driving innovation and best practice, deploying the latest technology and applying data intelligence. 

They are looking for a commercially aware Account Director to take responsibility for commercially driving and managing the client relationship with a major FMCG client, acting as the key contact for the client and ensuring their requests are delivered OTIF. You’ll be providing direction on innovation, value add and value engineering projects both internally and to the client, with a key focus on driving change to ensure commercial targets are hit.  You’ll also lead regular review forums; create and present relevant data reports whilst liaising with Procurement and Marketing contacts and, as the central point of contact, you’ll manage a team to ensure projects are delivered on time in full.

Through team management and collaboration, you’ll develop and deliver client growth strategies to increase the breadth and depth of client relationships using all available services and resources.  By establishing strong professional and personal relationships with your client you’ll promote a full understanding of their values and use this information to ensure consistent delivery of an outstanding level of service.  Using your strong commercial awareness, you’ll also drive value and gross margin growth and manage sales with all clients.

About you  

• Significant experience as an Account Director and 3D Point of Sale
• Experience of leading a team in multiple locations (3-4 account managers)
• Excellent commercial awareness with the ability to think strategically and identify new, innovative opportunities
• Ability to consistently deliver high standards of customer experience, always looking for ways we can improve our service
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to present to senior stakeholders across the function