Experience

AF Blakemore & Son Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Food and Beverage Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Trading Manager

  • Dec 2020 - Present



Pickstock Telford Limited

• United Kingdom
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Account Manager

  • Jan 2019 - Dec 2020



Dawn Meats

• Ireland
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Account Manager

  • Jun 2016 - Jan 2019

  Appointed as an Account Manager, focusing upon developing a major retail account & the manufacturing portfolio which is worth in excess £30m+ per annum. My main duties included;• Building strategic relationships and delivering plans tailored to each retailer’s market objectives• Manage budgets & implementing costing strategies. This process was the key driver in successfully winning new and retaining existing business.• Manage effective communication to NPD, Innovation, Primary Plants & Category Management Teams.• Coordinate and facilitate key meetings with the customer.• Responsibility for driving “contribution to profit” across my category and ensuring positive wider impact of commercial decisions.• Ensure that a robust commercial forecast is maintained to reflect current trading conditions.• Carry out and produce all reporting requirements, maintaining and updating the necessary spreadsheets and databases as required.• Contribute to site SOP processes whilst working closely with Production & Supply Chain team to plan events, launches and key promotions.• Actively seek new opportunities to drive growth and market share.

• Account Executive - Commercial Graduate

  • Jun 2016 - Oct 2017

  Account Executive - For the M&S and Manufacturing business unit.



Enterprise

• United States
• Travel Arrangements
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Management Trainee (Placement Year)

  • Jun 2013 - Jun 2014

  Role: * Provide exceptional levels of customer service at all times.* Develop relationships with local business accounts and increase business by undertaking marketing research.* Individual sales performance* Liaise with and manage staff at all levels and negotiate with third party suppliers.* Organise the logistics of the day to day fleet.Achievements: * Named ‘Intern of the year’ for having the best sales figures in the West of England and Wales region.* Took on responsibility above my level and took opportunity to run branch from an early stage in my career.* Completed all stages of an extensive management training folder.* Took on responsibility for exceptional levels of customer service, with expectations of 90% customer satisfaction score.* Set up new corporate accounts from personal leads resulting in increased revenue for branch.* Successfully implemented marketing campaigns with performance monitored through monthly growth expectations.