Office Manager/Client Liaison - with good Excel

This highly-successful FMCG sales and marketing agency, which helps new food and drink brands onto the shelves of major high-street retailers, is growing and looking to add another analytical Client Liaison Manager to the team. This interesting and multi-faceted role requires advanced Excel and client-facing communication skills.

Office Manager/Client Liaison role:

• Market scans and feasibility studies - think Dragons' Den. Desk research and store visits to:
• Check out new products/promotions
• Monitor competitors
• Collate information and feedback to Clients/Company staff.

• Coordinate client and detailed product information to enable seamless communication with retailers:
• Setting up accounts, implementing promotions and dealing with delivery issues
• Promote agreed priorities and tasks above other activities.
• Generate forecasts to provide benchmarking and guidance on production/fulfilment needs
• Collate all sources of intelligence (EPOS sales, promotion performance, invoiced sales, stock levels, delivery performance, competitor activity)

• Client administration
• Manage product images
• Ensure adequate samples held
• Check agreed promotion implementation
• Validate commercial invoices and forecast for business planning and cash flow management.

Office Manager/Client Liaison requirements:

• Excel (advanced) - pivot tables and VLookups - must have!
• Analytical and data rational
• Understand business processes and transactions
• Excellent planning, organisational skills and the ability to prioritise
• Confident, clear and intelligent communicator (written & spoken English) at all levels
• A good team player in a very empowered environment

Please apply if

• You work in a multitasking environment where you need to access many resources
• You enjoy forecasting the future with more than just a system
• You relish a challenge and the satisfaction of using your initiative
• You work/have worked in FMCG and looking for a different way to be involved

This is a varied and interesting client-facing role in an empowered environment where everyone's contribution counts. Applications are invited from a wide range of backgrounds but you must have the Excel and communication skills we're looking for. If you do, please send a CV now!