Commercial Manager

Carter Recruitment Ltd ,
Newmarket, Suffolk
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £40,000 per annum

Overview

If you want to accelerate your marketing career, you need to stop thinking about the day one stuff. Instead, think year one, and beyond. For example, take this search that we’re now working on. It involves a manufacturer, who occupies 35% of their market that has asked us to find them a Commercial Manager to help them deliver a competitive advantage in a channel that presently turns over £500k for them and will generate £5million in the next three years. If you’re interested, here’s the impact you will be making in year one. For a commercial animal this is the stuff of dreams - getting stuck in to the strategic planning and making a difference. Responsible for developing the marketing plan that fits with the overall objectives for the channel. Execute this plan with support from their marketing department, their own design team, as well as external agencies. Measure and track activity and adjust plans accordingly - aim, fire, look, analyse. Work with the Channel Sales Manager to support the distributor marketing activity. Find ways to establish the brand and make contact with their target market. Develop product offerings that help meet the needs of their target audience and drive value in the channel. If you can accomplish the above, you’ve got what it takes. Realistically, you will have strong experience in a direct marketing role as someone who is technically astute will give them a huge lift in taking them to their next level. This particular channel relies on a direct selling route via their transactional website, so experience of this would be really helpful. You’ll be working closely with various stakeholders so your communication skills need to be really strong, and given that you’ll be managing, training and supporting some direct reports we need someone that has proven line management experience. Whilst this represents some of the Year One and beyond stuff, Day One looks great, too These are things like the superb salary package on offer, the company culture, the people, the career prospects and their fantastic premises which are accessible from Cambridge, Newmarket, Ely, Mildenhall, Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Carter Recruitment offers the services of an employment agency for permanent work. Visit www.carterrecruitment.co.uk to apply for other marketing and sales vacancies across the United Kingdom.