National Business Development Manager - Foodservice

Location: sydney
Salary: $160000 - $210000 per annum
Job Type: permanent
Contact: Donna Tutte
About the company

Our client is an iconic FMCG business who are one of Australia’s largest food manufacturers, proudly producing award winning products for over a century for both the retail and food service markets.
Home to a diverse and home-loved portfolio with some of the biggest brands in the business. Despite growing to become a market leading brand, they remain proud of their strong Australian heritage, focus on quality, innovation, and values.
 


About the role
 
Due to exciting transformation growth within their foodservice business, the National Business Development Manager role is a senior, newly created position reporting directly into the Head of Foodservice. This position will act as the bridge between Sales and Innovation, and act as an integral voice to expand distribution across the entire Foodservice channel whilst overseeing the NAFDA distributor business.  
 
This role will be focused on profitable business and channel growth through customer optimisation, business development and product innovation. You will work closely with Product, Innovation and R&D teams to create new product specific to the foodservice channel. Important to this will be owning strategic relationships with key stakeholder driving the business development agenda.



Skills & experience

The National Business Development Manager will be a trusted and effective business partner to the Food Services Team. They are likely to have at least 5 years in FMCG senior account, national field roles or similar and hold an excellent working knowledge of QSR/Distributors/Value Add product development.
 
The successful candidate will be a, an excellent negotiator with great business acumen and business development capability. They will be a relationship builder, possessing excellent communication skills and an ability to take the team on a journey. They are high energy and fanatic about food and product innovation.
 

How to apply

 
To apply, click on the APPLY button below or contact Donna Tutte at Donnat@sixdegreesexecutive to have a confidential conversation.
Alternatively, should this role not quite be the right step or level for you but you would like to have a conversation about senior positions within Consumer Sales, please reach out.
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