At Proper, we believe snacks can taste amazing and do good. We’re the team behind Propercorn, Properchips and Eat Real - bold, better-for-you snacks that punch above their weight on flavour, creativity, and purpose. As a certified B Corp, we’re serious about sustainability and shaking up the snacking category for good.
We’re now looking for a hungry, commercially minded National Account Manager to help grow our retail and wholesale customer base across premium, healthy and challenger-brand environments. This is a brilliant step-up opportunity for an ambitious Account Manager or junior NAM ready to take ownership of customer relationships and grow into a bigger commercial role with Proper.
The Person:
This person will be ambitious, proactive and commercially curious, with the drive to step into their first NAM-level role and make a real impact. They’ll love building strong customer relationships, be confident working with both retailers and wholesalers, and bring the energy, resilience and cultural fit to grow with the business.
The Role:
As National Account Manager, you’ll support the growth of Proper across a mix of retail and wholesale customers, directly owning key account relationships and helping deliver strong commercial plans across premium, healthy and better-for-you channels.
This is a hands-on commercial role for someone with strong account management foundations, some P&L responsibility, and the appetite to take on more ownership as Proper continues to scale.
Responsibilities:
Account Management & Growth:
Support customer plans across premium, healthy, natural and challenger-brand environments, including customers such as Cotswold Fayre, Epicurium, CLF Distribution, Whole Foods, Planet Organic and garden centre channels.
Commercial Delivery:
Customer & Category Development:
Collaboration & Ways of Working:
Requirements:
Experience as an Account Manager, NAE, Junior/Regional Account Managerwithin FMCG, ideally food and drink.
A strong commercial mindset, with some experience of P&L, trade spend, forecasting or promotional planning.
Background in challenger food and drink brands, premium retail, wholesale, healthy, natural, organic or better-for-you sectors would be highly relevant.
Experience with customers such as Cotswold Fayre, Epicurium, CLF Distribution, Whole Foods, Planet Organic, Hollies Farm Shop or garden centre channels would be a bonus.
About PS:
PROPER SNACKS is the home of PROPER and Eat Real. The UK’s fastest-growing major snacks company.
We’re a diverse team of builders, thinkers, creators and makers - based in London and Nuneaton and serving snackers across Europe. Our brilliant team are united by an insatiable curiosity and driven by an entrepreneurial spirit. At PROPER SNACKS, we don’t sit still. We scale fast, dream big and back our people to make stuff happen. Our values keep us grounded: Be builder. Dream bigger. Seriously fun.
Whether you're joining us in London – where the brands are built, and big ideas take flight. Or in Nuneaton where magic happens in our factory and every bag gets made – you’ll be part of a team shaking up the snacking world. Get a flavour of what life is like at PROPER SNACKS here.
LDN – Drummond Street – London – NW1 3HP
NUN – Townsend Dr – Nuneaton – CV11 6TJ
Our Approach:
PROPER and Eat Real is an equal opportunities employer and we do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, or age.
Please let us know if there is anything we can do to accommodate you to participate fully in the recruitment or interview process.
