As our Senior Business Manager, you will be responsible for leading on;

Customer Relationships: Build and maintain strong and sustainable day to day relationships that strengthen the position of Ornua within your allocated accounts.
Target Delivery: Deliver budgeted volume and profit targets in all accounts
New Business Development: Investigate, make recommendations, and progress any agreed opportunity for the generation of new business.
Deliver our Private Label business plans: Understand and deliver the packing business commercial priorities in each retailer, ensuring good communication and strong relationships and optimisation of the synergy between Ornua Foods UK and our retailer customers. Ensure YoY creation and delivery of all cost saving and efficiency initiatives.
Ensure effective cross functional collaboration to generate and implement sales driving initiatives to a) address volume shortfalls, and b) over-deliver agreed plans.
Sustainability: Work to deliver Ornua and Customer alignment on strategies and targets. Ensure progress and communication of all initiatives.
Sales and Forecasting: Monitor sales performance across accounts, share updates and recommend/implement plans as needed. Responsible for forecasting, interaction with the demand planning team and for the final process sign off.
Brands: Work with the Marketing team to execute the Brand strategy across the total product portfolio, including EDP/NPD delivery, managing pricing, promotions and price increases; implementing plans through JBP's or promotional slots with key accounts; analysing and reporting on the effectiveness of promotions.
Commercial Models: Manage relevant commercial agreements as well as necessary supplier relationships including overseeing cheese price tracker models. Take the lead role in facilitating cross functional quarterly reconciliation meetings.
People Leadership: Provide day to day & career development support within the commercial team.
Internal Relationships: Be an advocate of great ways of working between the Commercial function and all other functions of the business. Represent and lead the virtual team across internal meetings such as status 3, offcut utilisation etc as necessary.
Personal Development: Expand network and contacts across the industry and supply base. Support the Commercial Controller in the delivery of the 5-year Strategic Plan.

Are you an experienced senior account manager looking for the challenge of taking a mission driven organisation to its next level of success? Do you have experience working with the Top 4 retailers in the UK?, Extensive experience in retail/ commercial
Retail/Top 4 experience
Excellent verbal and written communications skills
Strong numeracy and analytical skills
Business development experience
Persuasion & negotiation skills and experience
Leadership and motivational qualities

Ornua operates from 10 business units worldwide, including 12 production facilities, and has sales and marketing teams working in-market across all four corners of the globe.
The Group is structured across two divisions: Ornua Foods and Ornua Ingredients.
Ornua Foods is responsible for the marketing and sales of Ornua's consumer brands including Kerrygold, Pilgrims Choice.
Ornua Ingredients is responsible for the procurement of Irish and non-Irish dairy products and for the sale of dairy ingredients to food manufactures and foodservice customer across the world.
Our co-operative ethos lies at the heart of how we do business as a purpose and values-led organisation, creating value for Irish dairy farming families.
Our Values lie at the core of everything we do. Our five values encourage us to Seek and Embrace New Ideas, Make It Happen, Be Our True Selves, Show You Care, and Achieve Great Things Together.
Dynamic Working policy in place which facilitates flexible hours and hybrid working
We invest in our people and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Career Progression including Global Mobility opportunities.

Salary: Generous salary available depending on experience

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