Commercial Director

Location: South East
Sector: FMCG/Food/Sales/Brand/Retail/Distribution
Base Salary: £130k-£150k, uncapped bonus + Full Executive Package

Our client is a £100m+ British Food manufacturer who supply predominately Grocery customers with brand and own label products. They are in succession planning and looking to appoint a Commercial Director.

The Role:

• Reporting directly to CEO and a key member of the senior leadership team you will have full strategic responsibility for a broad commercial function spanning Sales/Account management, customer service, marketing and NPD, where you will focus on growing revenues through predominantly existing channels/accounts.
• Will lead and develop 7 direct reports.
• Will engage with customers to build strong relationships across multiple business channels and work closely with other functional business leaders to ensure targets are achieved.

The Person:

• Degree educated and ideally blue-chip trained, you will be a commercial astute FMCG business leadership with the ability to prove you can lead a multifunctional team to achieve and exceed set goals.
• Both brand and private label experience is preferred however would suit strong branded expertise.
• The gravitas to represent the business and create close working relationships with senior decision makers across the UK Food sector.

In the first instance please forward relevant CV’s including your current remuneration package quoting Ref: CID/896/44 to Barnaby Stewart Executive Search & Selection by clicking on Apply.