Account Executive Commercial Placement

- Town: Sheffield
- Contract type: Temporary
- Industry: Sales, Marketing and Procurement
- Salary:
- Working hours:
- Education requirements: Currently studying
- Qualification requirements:
- Apply by: 9 Mar, 2025
- Start date: 16 Jun, 2025
- Apply now

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Do you have a passion for identifying insights and trends? Passionate about working as part of a team? And have an ambition to have a long-term career in a commercial environment within the food industry? If this sounds like you, then our Account Executive Placement could be the perfect opportunity!
Why Greencore?
We’re a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better.
We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 13,300 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY24, we generated revenues of £1.8bn.
Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,500 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.
This is a dynamic and innovative field, which brings many commercial challenges relating to market trends, product launches, maintaining relationships with customers, suppliers and internal teams.
We’re looking for motivated undergraduates who are completing either a food related or business degree and have a keen ambition to gain experience within …. of a fast-moving consumer good business. This is a 12-month placement aimed at those who elect to complete a ‘year-in-industry’ as part of their degree, with the potential to return to Greencore once you have completed your undergraduate degree.
Join us and be part of our great team, committed to making everyday taste better.
What you'll be doing
The Greencore Account Executive placement is designed to help you gain valuable experience that supports your future career ambitions in the food industry.
As the largest sandwich maker in the UK, we partner with both major supermarkets and smaller retailers. During this placement as an Account Executive, support our National Account Managers in the day-to-day management of our customers. You will play a pivotal part in our relationship with our valued customers and will work collaboratively with other teams in the business to improve our service. This will include:
- Manage all day-to-day customer requirements to include research on the shopper journey, product sampling and benchmarking sessions
- Identify key insights on our product range and actions internally with the category and NPD teams and with the customer
- As directed by the National Account Manager, you will be involved in the promotional process of our products and activity
- Provides category analysis to support the customer innovation and category process
- Validation and checking of sets of data to ensure business information is aligned (e.g. – Sales forecast)
- Own and deliver a schedule of reporting to capture all business requirements
- Maintain database of knowledge and data relating to our customer
- Passionate about working as part of a team and have an ambition to have a long-term career in a commercial environment/food.
- Highly motivated to grow your career.
- Resilient and equipped to take change in your stride.
- Curious, organised, and able to use your excellent communication skills to build effective relationships with a range of stakeholders.
- The right to live and work in the UK.
- Currently studying
- Competitive salary and job-related benefits
- 25 days Holidays, Plus Bank Holidays
- Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform