🛒 Senior / National Account Manager – Grocery

📍 Remote with travel to retailers & manufacturers |

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🥗 The Gym Kitchen exploded onto the scene in 2020 — and they’ve been shaking up supermarket shelves ever since! Their mission? To fuel healthier, more active lifestyles with macro-counted, high-protein meals packed with flavour and made from top-quality ingredients. Now stocked in major UK retailers, they’re growing fast — and they’re on the lookout for a Senior / National Account Manager to join their ambitious sales team.

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ABOUT THE ROLE:

🎯 This is a key commercial role that will be instrumental in driving The Gym Kitchen’s brand growth across grocery and online retail.

📈 You’ll be responsible for delivering and executing customer growth plans, backed by data-driven insight and close collaboration with category, marketing, and production teams.

🧠 Using your knowledge of the grocery landscape, you’ll drive performance, grow distribution, and champion the brand in front of retail buyers.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

📊 Generate retailer-specific plans to drive sales and growth and analyse category and customer data to support business plans

📅 Build customer-specific promotional calendars, and develop and implement full customer contact and sales strategies

📦 Manage customer product mix aligned to brand/category goals

🛍️ Drive new business and support existing listings & NPD launches and lead account support across e-commerce channels

🎤 Organise and lead sales meetings, develop pitch decks and proposals and execute retailer activations and sampling events

📊 Forecast volume & communicate cross-functionally with ops & production and present compelling insights and prepare buyer-facing decks

👟 Complete regular store visits and attend key retailer conferences

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ABOUT YOU:

🏬 FMCG experience managing grocery retail accounts (Top 4 essential)

📘 Proven ability to build and deliver customer business plans

📈 Commercially savvy — confident with data and P&L

🎯 Structured selling approach and a strong “customer-first” mindset

💬 Excellent communicator, influencer and relationship builder

🌍 Ability to work remotely while staying closely connected to the team

🔥 Entrepreneurial, ambitious and self-motivated

💪 Tenacious, proactive, resilient and always pushing for results

🚗 Flexibility to travel as needed

👥 Team player who thrives in a close-knit, fast-moving business

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WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU:

🌱 Be part of a brand with purpose — helping people eat well and live better

🏹 Fast-tracked career progression in a high-growth business

💻 Remote-first culture with real flexibility

🎉 Bonus scheme + 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays

🧓 Pension scheme

🎯 A chance to make your mark in a lean, ambitious team on a mission

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​INTERESTED?

👉 Think you’re the one to take The Gym Kitchen to the next level?

Express your interest by contacting your Foodchain Contact, or emailing: team@foodchainrecruitment.com. If you are new to Foodchain, you can contact us via LinkedIn or via the below link to discuss further.

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