Commercial Manager - Tesco Meals

Description:

We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, and our presence in the US and China positions the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 18,500 colleagues operate from 44 sites across our three markets supplying a portfolio of over 2,900 products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US, and international food brands in China.

We drive our own success 

Proud to deliver high quality products and develop a high-quality career. 

Commercial Manager 

Competitive salary 
Bonus scheme 
Private Healthcare 
Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension 
Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group 
 
Why join us? 

We’re constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. 
 
About the role. 

We have a fantastic opportunity for a dynamic and driven Commercial Manager to join us and work with our prestigious and strategic customer Tesco.   

In this busy and exciting role, you will report to the Commercial Controller and undertake responsibility for analysing and interpreting data, creating strong category plans, providing reports, managing all internal interaction and becoming the key point of contact for the account. 
 
Accountabilities:  

Develops internal working relationships across the functions to ensure commercial delivery. 

Co-ordinates and ensures all relevant input / output information is collated, processed, and reviewed with the relevant teams. 

Collates input information and key measures needed to complete financial proposals, planning & forecasting. 

Supports the principles of Category management by providing and evaluating key measures and insights. Ensures all commercial activity is robustly managed & communicated through the business. 

Responsible for the consolidation and issuing of all Commercial reporting linked to Categories or projects to ensure seamless information flow across the business. 

Supports the plan through provision of the right and timely insight, data, information processing etc to ensure Category or project delivery. 

You will be great at developing cross functional relationships, open to change and strive for continuous improvement. 

About you. 

Ideally, you will have previous experience of a similar role working with a food retailer and an astute market awareness. 

Excellent excel and numerical skills and with keen attention to detail, will be key. 

If you are a driven, resilient and results focused commercial professional – this opportunity could be prefect for you. 
 
What you’ll receive. 

As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.  

You’ll enjoy: 

Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
Short Term Bonus Scheme
25 days holiday
Staff Shop
Stakeholder Pension Scheme
MyBargains Discount Platform
Personal Accident Insurance
Free Independent Mortgage Advice
Employee Assistance Programme
A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
Discounted tutoring for children
Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
Private Medical Insurance
Free Carparking– Site dependant  
Proud to be Bakkavor 

We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team! 

Find out more and apply. 

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