Are you a results-driven professional with a passion for fresh foods and building meaningful partnerships? At Foster, we believe in creating value for our customers, driving strategic growth, and making a positive impact on our community and future. As a National Account Manager, you will lead the charge in managing key accounts, developing innovative strategies, and building a high-performing team of Account Managers in a rapidly growing company.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead and Manage Accounts: Serve as the primary contact for national accounts, ensuring customer satisfaction and long-term success.
- Drive Strategic Growth: Develop and execute strategic plans to achieve sales and profit targets on a national scale.
- Foster Relationships: Build and maintain deep connections with key stakeholders, clients, and internal teams to deliver exceptional results.
- Analyze and Innovate: Use data-driven insights to identify trends, forecast performance, and create impactful solutions.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work with Operations, Marketing, and other departments to meet customer needs and drive business innovation.
- Ensure Excellence: Monitor account performance, address challenges, and align efforts with company goals.
- Build and Lead Teams: Guide, coach, and develop a successful team of Account Managers to achieve excellence.
- Champion the Foster Brand: Represent Foster as a trusted partner and advocate for our mission and values.
Who You Are: You are an experienced professional who thrives on creating value, driving results, and fostering high-performing partnerships. With a natural ability to collaborate and innovate, you are committed to the power of teamwork and positively impacting people.
Key Traits:
- Self-motivated and goal-oriented.
- Experienced in managing and growing national accounts.
- Skilled at fostering long-term, mutually beneficial relationships.
- Data-driven with a strategic mindset for achieving measurable results.
- Focused on leading, guiding, and coaching a successful team of Account Managers.
- Passionate about innovation, collaboration, and making a positive impact.
What You Bring to the Table:
- Proven experience in national account management or a similar role (5+ years preferred).
- Exceptional relationship-building and negotiation skills.
- Strong analytical and strategic planning abilities.
- Ability to work collaboratively across teams and functions.
- A passion for fresh foods, people, and creating positive change.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field preferred but not required.
Location: Onsite Colfax, NC
Our company is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal law.
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