Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 44845
Key Purpose
The National Account Manager is responsible for driving volume, revenue, and profitability across Pure Play, Hybrid, and MEU distributor footprints while positioning McCain as an indispensable strategic partner to its customers.
Core Responsibilities
- Relationship Management: Build and maintain long-term partnerships with key national accounts, including contract caterers, to increase share of wallet and deepen operator penetration.
- Trade Investment Management: Compile and manage the annual trading terms budget, negotiate for maximum ROI, and report performance to stakeholders monthly and quarterly.
- Customer P&L & Trade Spend: Own volume (tonnage), NSV, and GP targets per customer, and leverage Revenue Growth Management (RGM) principles.
- Customer Growth Plans: Use data, market intelligence, and joint business planning to identify and commercialise growth opportunities, including new operator acquisition.
- Promotional Execution: Lead key initiative launches, customer campaigns, and structured business reviews with customer head offices and branches.
- Demand Accuracy & Supply Intelligence: Monitor inventory pipelines and depot ROS, and feed market intelligence back to the demand and sales teams.
- Functional Execution: Deploy strategy to regional teams, drive CRM (Salesforce) discipline, and hold Regional Specialists accountable for execution excellence.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Marketing, Category, Finance, Supply Chain, Culinary, and Customer Service to align on customer commitments.
Qualifications & Experience Required
- BCom Degree in Business Management, Marketing, Commerce, or a related hospitality/commercial discipline (preferred).
- 5+ years in FMCG with Key Account Management experience and a proven national account execution track record.
- Working knowledge of P&L mechanics, trade spend management, pricing compliance, and Power BI dashboards.
- Demonstrated success in B2B client acquisition and building multi-level customer relationships.
- High willingness to travel extensively across the assigned region.
Key Competencies
Technical skills include an in-depth understanding of sales performance metrics, analytical ability, and problem solving. Behavioural attributes include being proactive, results-driven, innovative, an excellent communicator, and able to thrive in fast-paced environments with constant change.
Stakeholders
Internally: Supply Chain, Finance, Marketing, Demand Planning, and Category. Externally: Customers, End Users, and Sales Partners.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
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Job Family: Sales
Location(s): ZA - South Africa : Gauteng : Johannesburg
Company: McCain Foods (S Africa)
Skills Required
- BCom degree in Business Management, Marketing, Commerce, or a related hospitality or commercial discipline
- 5+ years of FMCG experience with key account management experience and a proven national account execution track record
- Working knowledge of P&L mechanics, trade spend management, pricing compliance, and Power BI dashboards
- Demonstrated success in B2B client acquisition and building multi-level customer relationships
- Willingness to travel extensively across the assigned region
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What We Do
The power it has to uplift and bring people, Guided by our purpose - Celebrating real connections through delicious, planet-friendly food - we believe that working together with our teams, business and community partners will bring sustainable growth and positive change - today, tomorrow and for generations to come. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in over 160 countries and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. Our product quality, people and customer dedication help us achieve global sales in excess of CDN $10 billion. Through our investment and innovation, we continue to be a global leader in prepared potato products, including our famous French Fries and appetizers. We are passionate about supporting and developing our people-providing opportunities to grow and learn in their roles, as well as building careers for the long term.
Why Work With Us
We are working to bring digital tools and data into our processes to drive efficiency, automation and data-driven insights. From connecting our business, enabling our supply chain, supporting our customers, to reinventing agriculture. So if you are a tech expert looking to join a company transforming technology, think of McCain.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
In both our manufacturing plants and corporate offices, we believe connection brings out the best in our people. While in-office expectations will vary by role, flexibility is key. In our corporate offices, the hybrid standard is 3-days in office.
