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http://newlywedsfoods.co.uk/http://www.newlywedsfoods.com/$1.2Bn Turnover. Value Added Coatings, Seasonings & Functional Ingredients SupplierWorking alongside a number of high profile global food lead clients from a range of sectors including Foodservice, QSR and Retail.My role is to make things happen across a global development and supply chain. Delivering, facilitating and executing ingredient led solutions to fit clients' needs.Build, manage and… Show more http://newlywedsfoods.co.uk/http://www.newlywedsfoods.com/$1.2Bn Turnover. Value Added Coatings, Seasonings & Functional Ingredients SupplierWorking alongside a number of high profile global food lead clients from a range of sectors including Foodservice, QSR and Retail.My role is to make things happen across a global development and supply chain. Delivering, facilitating and executing ingredient led solutions to fit clients' needs.Build, manage and enhance global client relations/ account strategiesSeek, explore and deliver new business opportunitiesP&L / Profitability (EBITDA) accountable from product conceptualisation through to development, pilot testing and launch. Show less

www.symingtons.com90M Turnover: Value added dry Food Manufacturer.Heavy Weight Brands Inc:Ainsley Harriott, James Martin, Crosse and Blackwell, Golden Wonder Nation's Noodle, Sammys, Aunt Bessies GravyI Travel internationally to build existing business relations, seek, evaluate and execute New Export opportunities for both Branded and Private Label dry food products.

Key Responsibilities: * Accountable for the P & L for a mix of wholesale, retail and multiple customers in the North West and centre of England and Wales: across both ambient and frozen categories * To Grow Sales, Distribution and Availability of 6 major brands: Green Giant, Haagen Dazs, Old El Paso, Jus Rol, Betty Crocker and Nature Valley * Full responsibility for the creation of account strategies, promotional plans and tactical implementation * Prospecting… Show more Key Responsibilities: * Accountable for the P & L for a mix of wholesale, retail and multiple customers in the North West and centre of England and Wales: across both ambient and frozen categories * To Grow Sales, Distribution and Availability of 6 major brands: Green Giant, Haagen Dazs, Old El Paso, Jus Rol, Betty Crocker and Nature Valley * Full responsibility for the creation of account strategies, promotional plans and tactical implementation * Prospecting, winning and developing new frozen and ambient wholesale and retail business accounts * Coaching and mentoring new Graduate Field Territory Development Executives * Best practice team champion Key Achievements: * The Times National Sales Awards Finalist 2007, Best Newcomer for Services * Understood Customer Needs to increase mature account base turnover from £459k to £852k:achieving 185% growth * Exceeded total account target by 18% and new business target by 1933% by landing New Matalan account * Prospected additional new business leads to gain 3 new ambient accounts worth a combined £20k annually * Won new Haagen Dazs account worth £270k annually, exceeding field team’s new business target by 300% * Wholesale Landmark Accounts: East End Foods, AG Parfetts & Blakemore created and delivered account plans worth an incremental: 70K * Shoprite Isle of man Multiple: upped fixture footfall by 30% by negotiating improved planograms & implementing more sophisticated Merchandising techniques * Doubled delivered volume for a Midland Based international Wholesaler over 18 months with the Old El Paso brand now reaching across the Middle East via Multi-national Carrefour supermarket chains * Booker: provided analysis tools which delivered 98% range availability and 20% uplift in sales after 3 months * Produced and provided full selling tools for field sales team to support new product launches Show less