Commercial Controller

November 14

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Label Validation • Label Compliance • Regulatory Advice • Specification Approval • Food Information Regulation (FIR) Compliance

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Description

• ABOUT US • We are a trusted partner in protecting brands and their end-consumers around the world, through clear and accurate product information. • Creating trust: Consumers must be able to trust product information, in order to trust a brand. When our clients choose to work with us, they are trusting us with the reputation and the future of their brands. • By providing expertise: We are a highly versatile team of experts with a unique blend of manufacturing, retail, enforcement and commercial experience. Our clients rely on us to know every angle of the international product information sector, inside out. • Through collaboration: Our clients trust our expertise and choose to work with us as collaborative partners, to help them build successful brands. We work side by side with our clients to interpret and apply legal guidelines, enabling them to launch innovative products quickly and efficiently. • OUR SERVICES • Discover: we provide advice, training and consultation services across all aspects of food law, offering clear and practical solutions to product information and labelling. • Launch: we deliver complete product specifications and label information for product launches, ensuring full legal compliance, honesty and accuracy. • Expand: we help our clients move into new, global markets with total compliance confidence, all whilst avoiding unnecessary time, cost and enforcement action. • Protect: we work in partnership with our clients to interpret and apply the law and protect their brands by helping end consumers make safe, informed choices. • ABOUT YOU • Welcoming: friendly, approachable and open to new ideas, feedback and improvement • Positive: create a positive experience for our people and our clients • Confident: act with integrity from a strong foundation of expertise • Simplicity: you will remove complexity and bring clarity • THE ROLE • We are seeking a Commercial Controller to join our UK Retail Team. The successful candidate will lead and develop our client accounts. • Key duties and responsibilities • Your goals: to build a professional, approachable team who love what they do, are open to new ideas and take an honest, straight forward approach to delivering exceptional service. Surrounded and supported by Ashbury’s Technical and Regulatory specialists you will nurture the client relationship, optimise opportunities and deliver against identified targets. Working cross functionally both internally and externally you will drive a strong growth agenda within your business unit that will play a significant part in maximising performance of the business as whole. To achieve you will take ownership of driving a “change agenda” both internally and externally to the business. Your short-term goals will be 2 years out, whilst long-term goals will be devised some 5 years into the future, hence the intellectual stretch you will experience will be unparalleled in your career to date.

Requirements

• Demonstrable customer and internal stakeholder management skills • Strong commercial acumen skill and experience • Management of varied workload within a fast-paced environment • Management of people and Teams include the development of people within your team • Proven ability to manage multiple retail clients simultaneously • Experience of product launch process within retail own brand, either at a retailer or manufacturer through product development, technical or project management • Understanding of challenges and pressures bringing products to shelf and potential food safety risks • Ability to understand the detail of each client, but keep the topline bigger picture view • Degree level educational • Knowledge of the Food Industry through work experience or a relevant Qualification • Highly proficient in Microsoft packages especially Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook • High level of ability to communicate in English in written and spoken formats • Excellent oral, written, IT and presentation skills • Proactive, positive, enthusiastic – demonstrating a “can do” attitude and a keen interest in knowledge sharing. • Analytical, structured thinker with attention to detail but able to communicate complex issues in a concise, understandable manner. • Proven experience of negotiating with retailers or large food manufacturers • Qualifications in food or regulatory subject with sound technical knowledge, or able to demonstrate excellent relevant experience • Microsoft SharePoint, PowerPoint and other Microsoft reporting tools • Proactive, motivated and driven • Excellent attention to detail and high levels of accuracy • To be able to demonstrate achievement of high value projects • To be able to demonstrate this under pressure of deadlines

Benefits

• Working from home • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays each year • Enhanced Company Pension • Health Care • Additional annual leave after 3 years service • Employee Assistance Programme • Payroll Giving • Cycle to Work scheme