National Account Manager

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact.

The Challenge

We are looking for a National Account Manager, with a big passion for Chocolate and biscuits. We offer you the opportunity to join our team and contribute to our mission to bring ‘Happiness with every bite’.

About the role

For our sales department we are looking for an enthusiastic, communicative and commercial National Account Manager (NAM). This senior position will be based in Zaandam and manages our key clients like Jumbo. The NAM reports to the head of sales retail, is part of an enthusiastic sales team and will be supported by a team of dedicated sales support colleagues. 

Your main responsibilities

• Maintain day to day contact with different departments of our key customers; The Jumbo category managers/category assistants for our segments, sourcing managers, Jumbo Online and on a less frequent basis Jumbo Supply Chain & Jumbo Media.
• Responsible for the turnover and budget;
• Obtain maximum distribution of existing products as well as a rapid build-up distribution of new products;
• Develop and optimize effective promotions together with the customer;
• Initiate category projects in multifunctional business teams with Marketing and Trade Marketing for optimizing shelf impact and joint business planning with customers;
• As an excellent negotiator be responsible for making the yearly HQ deals on conditions, investments and promotions;
• Communicate effectively with all other internal teams such as Marketing, Trade Marketing, Demand Planning, Customer Service and Finance;
• Develop new sources of growth, based on business opportunities that you see at your accounts.

What do you bring?

The ideal candidate is a team player who shows commitment for optimizing the business and goes the extra mile. He/she can improve our current business model in line with our growth plans. He/she is strong in building relations with our customers and has an entrepreneurial & Can-Do mentality. Applicants must exhibit analytical and negotiation skills and have the flexibility to adapt to fast-moving situations. He/she has to be a strategic partner for Jumbo.

The ideal candidate has a master's degree and at least 5-6 years relevant commercial experience within FMCG, preferably in sales retail (additional (Trade) Marketing experience is a pre).

What we offer

Working for pladis means challenging jobs, career opportunities and an inspiring environment that allow you to enhance your personal development. pladis recognizes that the on-going success of the company depends on the continued development and engagement of our employees and pursues a fair and competitive remuneration policy, recognizing individual and team competencies and performance.

A few of our benefits:

• Fixed term employment (12 months) with possibility of a permanent contract after this
• Development opportunities through our pladis Academy & other training programs
• A competitive salary plus attractive bonus plan
• Fulltime employment (37,5 hours per week)
• 34 holidays (based on fulltime)
• Pension in pensionfund ‘Zoetwaren’
• Discounts on health insurance, gym memberships, bikes etc
• Biscuits, chocolate and other snacks from our personnel store;
• The best colleagues in an informal working environment.

Who are we?

Koninklijke Verkade, founded in 1886, with amazing brands like Verkade en Sultana, is part of pladis since 2016. pladis is one of the world's leading snacking companies. We are the proud steward of over 300 years of family baking and confectionery experience. A worldwide community with 16,000 colleagues around the world. Each of us bring our experience in happiness. Each of us is unique, but we find each other as a family of bakers and chocolatiers, hardworking, with pride and purpose. After all these years we believe that biscuits and chocolate bring people together. We are pladis. We bake Happiness. Happiness with every bite.

pladis succeeds because of people like you. People who wake up in the morning excited to get to work. Who believe in themselves and their potential. Who want to grow as part of a global community of like-minded colleagues.

pladis colleagues care deeply about being the best. About winning, staying the course and never giving up. Whichever part of the world we’re in, whatever our role. Whether we’re baking, working in HR, finance, marketing or many other areas – we win as one pladis team.

And while we’re all unique, we share something in common. It’s the code by which we live and work. We call it our ‘Winning Traits & Behaviours’: Purpose Led, Agile, Collaborative, Positive and Resilient. Five aspects of pladis life that define who we are, how we interact and get things done.

Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do and is reflected across our business. pladis brings together brands and people from around the globe – and this diversity is our great strength.

We’re an equal opportunities employer and believe in encouraging an inclusive environment where we celebrate diversity of thinking and respect everyone’s distinctive qualities and perspectives.

• All applications will be treated with confidentiality. Third Party or Recruitment Agencies are not welcomed.

pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.

About Us

pladis is one of the world’s fastest growing snacking companies and home to much loved brands including McVitie’s, GODIVA and Ülker. pladis also owns regional brands Jacob’s, Go Ahead, Flipz, Turtles, BN, Verkade and many more products across sweet and savoury biscuits, wafer, cake and chocolate.

Formed in 2016, pladis is the proud steward of over 300 years of family baking and confectionery experience. The expertise of our 16,000-strong global workforce spans 27 bakeries across 11 countries and is united by our purpose: to ‘bring happiness with every bite’.

As a responsible business delivering the highest quality products and exceptional service, pladis’ products have the potential to reach more than four billion people across the world.