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We are looking for a high calibre Head of/NAC expert with a passion for consumers and brands to join the team at UCC. The successful candidate will create a retail strategy from scratch and drive the growth of our branded and private label offer. They will also have line management of 2 NAMS who will look after our existing retail and café business.
The Role:
- Creating and implementing the Strategy with UCC cross channel teams to win new business in Grocery and Out Of Home channels.
- Line management of 2 NAMs to develop their capability
- Partnering with Senior Marketing lead to create compelling insights to secure new opportunities.
- Holding P&L responsibility, you will deliver against challenging yet exciting growth objectives and demonstrate high business acumen across the channels.
- Clarity of forecasting and accountability for your teams number at all times across the key drivers:
- Coffee to Go (smart vending proposition)
- Side products (syrups, cleaning solutions)
The Person:
- A proven highly driven results focused sales leader with broad commercial acumen
- A great influencer and communicator at all levels
- A superb collaborator, comfortable working with multiple departments
- Able to demonstrate skills/experience in the following: Experience gained from the away-from-home and/or retail grocery sectors. Strong preference for experience from a blue-chip background and FMCG training.
- Experience of senior selling across different channels including convenience, multiples, foodservice and Grocery.
- High drive and tenacity to deliver growth in customers/sales/volumes.
- Proven track record of securing new business of scale.
- Proven experience of creating and implementing strategies to win new business.
- Experience with Category, Brands and Solution Selling.
- Multiskilled negotiator.
- Strong numeric and data analytical skills.
- Commercially astute.
Salary:
Competitive + Bonus + Company Car + 25 days Holiday + other Company Benefits
#J-18808-Ljbffr”, “datePosted”: “2026-05-17”, “hiringOrganization”: { “@type”: “Organization”, “name”: “UCC Coffee UK and Ireland”, “sameAs”: “https://uk.whatjobs.com/pub_api__cpl__435463727__4861?utm_campaign=publisher&utm_medium=api&utm_source=4861&geoID=441” }, “jobLocation”: { “@type”: “Place”, “address”: { “@type”: “PostalAddress”, “addressLocality”: “Milton Keynes” } } }Company: UCC Coffee UK and Ireland
Location: Milton Keynes
Job Description:
We are looking for a high calibre Head of/NAC expert with a passion for consumers and brands to join the team at UCC. The successful candidate will create a retail strategy from scratch and drive the growth of our branded and private label offer. They will also have line management of 2 NAMS who will look after our existing retail and café business.
The Role:
- Creating and implementing the Strategy with UCC cross channel teams to win new business in Grocery and Out Of Home channels.
- Line management of 2 NAMs to develop their capability
- Partnering with Senior Marketing lead to create compelling insights to secure new opportunities.
- Holding P&L responsibility, you will deliver against challenging yet exciting growth objectives and demonstrate high business acumen across the channels.
- Clarity of forecasting and accountability for your teams number at all times across the key drivers:
- Coffee to Go (smart vending proposition)
- Side products (syrups, cleaning solutions)
The Person:
- A proven highly driven results focused sales leader with broad commercial acumen
- A great influencer and communicator at all levels
- A superb collaborator, comfortable working with multiple departments
- Able to demonstrate skills/experience in the following: Experience gained from the away-from-home and/or retail grocery sectors. Strong preference for experience from a blue-chip background and FMCG training.
- Experience of senior selling across different channels including convenience, multiples, foodservice and Grocery.
- High drive and tenacity to deliver growth in customers/sales/volumes.
- Proven track record of securing new business of scale.
- Proven experience of creating and implementing strategies to win new business.
- Experience with Category, Brands and Solution Selling.
- Multiskilled negotiator.
- Strong numeric and data analytical skills.
- Commercially astute.
Salary:
Competitive + Bonus + Company Car + 25 days Holiday + other Company Benefits
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Posted: May 17th, 2026