Overview

Working with the big four UK grocers requires strong leadership, strategic thinking, excellent communication skills, and the ability to drive results in a competitive and dynamic market. This off-trade role sits within Amber Beverage UK’s portfolio of established and up-and-coming spirits brands.

What you’ll be doing

• Managing accounts within the big four supermarkets as the primary purpose of this role
• Developing customer-specific activities delivering volume and profit while aligning to agreed strategies
• Maintaining and developing incremental sales growth from existing business and new product development opportunities
• Planning and implementing promotional activity aligned to the customer’s shopper base, collaborating with the Marketing team
• Setting and managing financial budgets for each account internally and externally
• Forecasting customer volumes to assist total business planning accuracy
• Inputting to the development of customer category plans to maximise returns to ABUK
• Monitoring and reporting on market and competitor activities

What kind of experience you’ll bring

• Experience of working with grocers is important
• You will have presented to and negotiated with different stakeholders in your previous roles
• Drinks experience would be helpful, but not essential
• Attention to detail and concern for quality
• Solutions-focused, tenaciously overcoming barriers

What kind of person you’ll be

• Self-motivated and tenacious
• Team player – considers overall business goals, not just their own
• Reliable and trustworthy – our customers are in safe hands
• Creative thinker, able to think of alternative strategies and solutions with ease
• Pragmatic and results-focused
• Diplomatic rapport builder, able to talk to everyone in their language
• Analytical, using facts and figures to make decisions

What you’ll get in return

• Remote working with travel and regular attendance required at our London shared working space
• Three days Christmas closure
• Medical cashback plan
• Enhanced pension
• Product discount and allowance scheme

About Amber Beverage UK

Amber Beverage UK is an ambitious brand builder and distributor for established and up-and-coming spirits brands. Our portfolio includes Amber Beverage Group’s owned brands, together with third-party distributed brands for a broad, exciting and multi-category range. ABUK has dedicated salespeople in each region of the UK, and functional experts covering the off-trade, national accounts and wholesalers. In 2023, ABUK merged with Indie Brands to combine the insurgent heritage and entrepreneurial spirit of Indie Brands with the scale, structure and systems support of ABUK. ABUK is part of the Luxembourg-headquartered Amber Beverage Group, which produces, bottles, distributes and markets a range of drinks to international markets.

We are committed to giving everyone the best chance of succeeding in our recruitment process. If there is anything we can do to support you in overcoming any obstacles, please get in touch.