Junior Commercial Manager

Join DCS Group: Your Opportunity to Work with the World's Leading Brands!

We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and reliable Junior Commercial Manager to join our team on a permanent, full-time basis at our Banbury site.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supplier Negotiation: Negotiate with suppliers to deliver the most competitive pricing and profit levels.
• Category Management: Provide customers with a tailored range of products and promotions that suit their individual needs, using a category management approach.
• Business Development: Increase business with existing suppliers and develop new opportunities in line with profit guidelines.
• Inventory Management: Recover all costs associated with residuals, overstocks, and out-of-date stock.
• Networking & Representation: Represent DCS Group at meetings, events, and seminars, building relationships with a variety of networks including customers and suppliers.

What We’re Looking For:

• Prioritization & Decision-Making: Ability to prioritize and make effective commercial decisions in time-sensitive situations.
• Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills, able to communicate effectively with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels.
• Commercial Awareness: A solid understanding of commercial principles with the ability to negotiate and influence decisions.
• Technical Skills: Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft applications, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Team Focus: Self-motivated, flexible to change, and a strong team player.

Core Benefits of Working for DCS Group:

As a family business, we place a great deal of importance on the well-being and happiness of our staff and the benefits they can enjoy.

• Life Cover
• Pension
• Medical Cash Plan
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Well-being
• Subsidised café including free breakfast
• Staff Shop
• Social Events

Would you like the opportunity to work with some of the world’s largest brands?

DCS Group is the UK’s leading Distributor, Manufacturer, and Exporter of Health, Beauty, and Household products. As the uniquely appointed representatives for Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Kenvue, PZ Cussons, SC Johnson, to name a few, DCS has unrivaled multi-channel insight and category expertise. Our latest exciting plans to develop and grow our new Food distribution business have seen major brands such as Whitworths and Danone joining forces with DCS.

DCS Group is passionate and proud about all that we do, the customers we serve, and our people. Operating out of two amazing sites, we have the 26-acre Banbury Head Office and warehousing facilities as well as our new state-of-the-art Health and Beauty manufacturing facility occupying 100,000 sq. ft based in Redditch.

As a family-owned business, we are very proud of our ethos, our people, and 30 years of successive growth. We offer a very special opportunity to join a welcoming, dynamic, fun place to work and to work directly with the world’s biggest FMCG power brands.

There’s no place quite like DCS Group and we’re proud of that, which is all down to the people who work here. If you want to be part of our expanding company which offers exciting opportunities for career progression, we would love to hear from you!

To apply, please send an up-to-date CV to recruitment@dcsgroup.com.