National Account Manager - North

Introduction à  l'emploi

We’re excited to offer an opportunity for a National Account Manager to join our UK On Trade Commercial Team. In this role, you will play a key part in executing the UK On Trade vision and strategy, supporting the National Sales Manager to deliver sustainable growth, strong customer partnerships, and brilliant brand activation.

You will help ensure we are the Premium Partner of Choice, balancing commercial performance with long‑term brand equity and value.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys building relationships, creating impact, and working collaboratively in a supportive and ambitious team.

Responsabilité du rôle

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Developing customer account plans that align with brand objectives and channel strategy, achieving activation, distribution, volume, and profit targets.
• Reviewing customer performance and building initiatives that support account and channel goals.
• Implementing and managing promotional and investment plans in line with agreements.
• Driving impactful brand activation and category excellence to improve performance at the point of purchase.
• Building strong trading relationships and representing our brands with credibility and confidence.
• Ensuring William Grant & Sons is seen as a partner of choice through regular engagement with key stakeholders.
• Managing monthly reporting and identifying opportunities for growth within your customer base.
• Ensuring clear measurement, evaluation, and return on investment for customer activity.
• Maintaining high operational standards across forecasting, budgeting, and commercial controls.
• Playing an active role within the channel team, contributing to a positive, collaborative, and high‑performance culture.

Notre candidat idéal

We welcome applications from people with a variety of backgrounds and experiences. You may be a great fit for this role if you:

• Have experience managing national or regional accounts—ideally within the On Trade.
• Are skilled at building strong, trusting relationships with customers and colleagues at all levels.
• Bring strong influencing, communication, and negotiation abilities.
• Feel comfortable working with numbers and insights to inform decisions.
• Enjoy problem‑solving and identifying new opportunities for growth.
• Are proactive, organised, and able to balance multiple priorities in a fast‑moving environment.
• Live within a regularly commutable distance of Manchester, Liverpool, or Leeds.

Que pouvons-nous vous offrir

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
• Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
• Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
• Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
• Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues. 
• Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
• Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
• Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
• Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
• Learning resources to help you be your best self.

À propos de William Grant & Sons

A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS

William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.

We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.

At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.

OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY

Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.

INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.