Commercial Manager - Asda

Hybrid (3 days a week in the office) – Leeds

Competitive salary, up to 25% bonus and benefits

We have an excellent opportunity to join Birds Eye as a Commercial Manager, accountable for the planning and delivery of a profitable growth plan within the Birds Eye, Aunt Bessies and Goodfella’s brands.

Utilising category and consumer insight to influence the customer and delight the shopper at points of purchase to achieve key business targets

The individual will be accountable for a broad portfolio of branded products, as well as leading the eCom and Convenience strategies within the Asda account. You will support the execution of the total customer business plan in order to hit and exceed annual targets, leading this for your responsible categories. The right candidate will have solid trading experience, an ambition to learn and progress and excellent organisational skills.

Accountable for the planning and delivery of a profitable growth plan for Asda within the Birds Eye, Aunt Bessie’s & Goodfella’s portfolios as well as ownership and co-ordination of the Formats strategies (eCom/ Convenience). This is a key role within the wider BU North sales team.

Utilising category and consumer insight to achieve key business targets.

• Generate consumer specific business through developing JBPs, using category/shopper Build partnerships with Asda stakeholders to develop, manage & execute Joint Business Plans managing to achieve both your own and the customer’s Sales, Profit & Share targets. You will have full account P&L ownership for set categories
• Manage customer product mix and align with strategic brand and category guidelines.
• Selling and negotiating of new listings.
• Delivering profitable growth for the account.

We need a driven and experienced commercial professional that wants the next step in their career by supporting a top 4 retailer.

• Experience with in eCommerce and/or channel functions desirable.
• Must have experience of P&L.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and proactive in communication.
• Understanding of teamwork and promoting high performing behaviours.

• An ambitious employer with recognized brands and growth potential
• A culture where your part of a team, where you feel encouraged to make a difference.
• The potential to progress your career across different areas of the Nomad Foods Group

We’re on an exceptional adventure and offer a truly purpose led career. We aim to empower each employee and promote their personal growth all the while ensuring business needs are met now and into the future.

This is a great time to join us! Birds Eye, owned by Nomad Foods, is the UK's no.1 branded frozen food company and is comprised of the Birds Eye, Goodfella’s, Aunt Bessie's and Green Cuisine brands. Selling its first products in 1946, we have been providing high-quality frozen food for generations, and our iconic portfolio of fish, vegetable and chicken products now also includes a meat-free range, pizzas and roast joints and accompaniments.

2024 marks 100 years since our founder, Clarence Birdseye, invented the process behind frozen food as we know it today and we are immensely proud of our heritage as we continue to endeavour to serve the nation with better food, promoting the nutritional benefits and convenience of frozen food and the role it plays in helping reduce food waste.

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