Food and Beverage Account Manager

Food and Beverage Account Manager – £50,000 – £60,000 plus 10% bonus – Ross-on-Wye – Leading Food Manufacturer – Monday-Friday 

Tonic is assisting our client’s search for a Food and Beverage Account Manager responsible for managing customer accounts, providing high-quality solutions and developing strong client relationships. Our client is a leading manufacturer of bespoke botanical extracts supplying major food and beverage brands. 

What’s in it for the successful Food and Beverage Account Manager?

• Competitive basic salary – £50,000 – £60,000 per annum
• Bonus up to 10% of salary based on set KPIs
• Generous contributory pension package
• Hybrid role – Monday – Friday 
• Flexible working hours
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (33 days)
• Free on-site parking
• Fantastic supportive and inclusive company culture
• Outstanding training and career development opportunities
• Financially stable, growing company

Key responsibilities of the Food and Beverage Account Manager’s role include:

• Proactively and reactively manage new sales leads
• Manage project briefs, sample requests, product quotations and meeting target deadlines
• Management of customer accounts and projects
• Liaising with internal departments and customers, being a critical link in NPD process
• Acting as first point of contact – dealing with customer correspondence and phone calls
• Show an active interest in new food and drink products and trends

What qualities and experience are we looking for in the successful candidate?

• A strong passion for food and drink
• A people-person with solid communication & relationship development skills
• Discreet and trustworthy
• Highly organised with the ability to prioritise your workload and customers’ needs
• A tenacious problem solver
• Excellent computer skills (including the ability to develop database / CRM systems)
• Have the ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects, each with different
• demands, timescales and objectives
• Meticulous at record-keeping
• Be creative and obsessed with the quality of service

Due to the location of our client’s business, you must have your own transport.