National Account Manager - Buying Groups/ Bestway (UXBRIDGE)

Are you looking for new challenges within Coca-Cola Europacific Partners? Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect?
Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing? Will you make an impact with your desire to win?

National Account Manager – Buying Groups/ Bestway

Location - Home based

Contract - 1 x Permanent & 1 x 11 Month FTC

What you become a part of

In an increasingly competitive and challenging market place, the wholesale sector remains both varied in the environments it covers as well as the opportunity it provides. The Independent Wholesale team including Bestway team is fully focused on building the distribution of our brands into consumer facing stores. We therefore operate a ‘push’ and ‘pull’ strategy in Wholesale. The ‘push’ is about securing space on depot floor or in wholesaler brochure / website to secure selection by convenience retailers, caterers and publicans where our ‘pull’ strategy helps to drive rate of sale in those consumer facing outlets they operate. In order to unlock growth, we need our team to understand the complexity of the wholesale supply chain, be analytical, pragmatic & forward thinking and have strong ability to sell the benefits of our portfolio and manage the needs of our customers.

Joining the Independent Wholesale team you will be reporting into the Business Unit Senior Manager and responsible for managing the wholesale agenda through Customer Head Office and Members. You will therefore be involved in pulling together multi-faceted environment and joint business plans in order to unlock growth across a varied outlet base for us and the customer and working closely with Field Sales, Finance, Category Insights, Customer Development team, R&MGM and Customer Logistics to deliver the plans.

What to expect:

• Manage Buying Groups Head Office through both Cash & Carry and delivered Wholesale Partners building account & environment growth plans to drive portfolio growth

• Management of the day to day P&L and all financial standards of performance

• Be the key day to day contact for customer business relationships

• Review and evaluate business performance on a regular basis

• Being prepared to support others and willing to share best practice and identify issues at an early stage

• Identify key environments to drive the growth agenda to its full

• Work with Finance and R&MGM to increase effectiveness of investment and alignment of the Wholesale environment

• Work with the Customer Development team to shape customer selling stories for Key brands and product innovation, Calendar moments and Execution Initiatives

• Work with the total Business Unit to increase effectiveness of investment and alignment to total AFH plan

Skills and Experience 

To be successful in this role you need to demonstrate excellent selling skills, be able to proactively identify and unlock growth opportunities. Communication skills, both verbal & written are key and you need to be confident in communicating with and influencing customers and senior level stakeholders. You need a good commercial acumen and be able to deliver and negotiate strong commercial plans for CCEP. You need to be energetic and positive and engaging with the desire to continually drive things forward and have the ability to work well individually and as a Team.

The closing date for applications is 08/04/26. We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of applications. To ensure you are considered for this role, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world’s most loved drinks.
We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day.

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We recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If that’s true for you – please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.