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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
• Experience annual pay reviews
• Profit related pay
• Private health scheme
• Employee discount scheme
• Location Leicester / Home-based with some travel to The Cornwall Bakery

The Opportunity

Are you a commercially astute leader with a passion for FMCG and retail partnerships? We’re looking for a Senior Commercial Manager to join our Savoury Pastry team on a 13-month maternity cover contract, leading our strategic relationship with Morrisons. In this fast-paced role, you’ll take ownership of delivering against sales and profit targets, managing NPD/EPD launches, promotional strategies, and customer engagement. You’ll work cross-functionally with teams across Development, Supply Chain, Finance, and more, ensuring seamless execution of our Joint Business Plan and commercial strategy.

• Lead the Morrisons account, driving growth and profitability.
• Manage commercial forecasts and promotional plans.
• Collaborate on category strategies to grow market share.
• Deliver customer efficiency improvements and cost model management.
• Support and coach a Commercial Executive.

The Ideal Candidate

We believe that success is built upon collaboration and diverse perspectives. At Samworth Brothers, we welcome candidates who are passionate about working together to achieve greatness. As a valued member of our team, you will bring the following skills and experience:

• Proven experience in FMCG, ideally within food manufacturing.
• Strong commercial acumen and negotiation skills.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.
• Analytical mindset with a knack for turning insights into action.
• Degree educated or equivalent, with a full clean driving licence.

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!

About Us

We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris, Urban Eat, West Cornwall Pasty Company and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.

At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters 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.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Sales and Business Development

Industries

• Technology, Information and Internet

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