Account Manager

About The Role

Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family! At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations.

• Enhanced pension scheme
• Private health scheme
• Profit related pay
• Experience annual pay reviews
• Onsite gym
• Employee discount scheme
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Long service days holidays
• Paid social events
• Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities

You’ll take full ownership of your customer accounts — developing annual business plans, driving distribution, securing planogram space, delivering profit targets and identifying new business opportunities. You’ll also act as the primary customer contact, ensuring our brands are well-represented, well-supported and consistently growing.

• Deliver sales & profit targets across Convenience and Travel
• Create and implement account-specific business plans
• Increase distribution and visibility of key brand SKUs
• Win new business and expand existing accounts
• Plan and deliver profitable promotional activities
• Build strong relationships across external and internal teams including Commercial, Finance, Marketing & Supply Chain

• Tenacious – driven to win new business and push for results
• Influential – able to negotiate, persuade and confidently lead customer conversations
• Relationship-focused – great listener, strong collaborator, emotionally intelligent
• Highly organised – able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
• Experienced in FMCG account management – strong communication, negotiation, problem-solving

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role. Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you ll be more than just a team member – you ll be an integral part of our thriving family.

Apply today and embark on an exciting journey with us!

Soreen is our Manchester based business within Samworth Brothers. Take a highly successful bakery company, add a much loved, iconic brand and pour on lashings of passion! This is the recipe you’ll experience when working for Soreen bakery. As makers of a delicious range of fruit and malt loaves we require outstanding, passionate and committed quality professionals. Behind every great brand are its people!

Be part of a brand with over 85 years heritage built on the dedication and commitment of our workforce and enjoyed by over 1.1m consumers every week!

Soreen are an Equal Opportunities employer. We are committed to continuing to make diversity and inclusion part of everything we do.

Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gang masters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative.