Commercial Manager in Banbury

Location: Banbury
Salary: Hidden
Recruiter: DCS Group (UK) Ltd
Job Hours: Full-time

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Are you interested in collaborating with some of the world's most renowned brands?

DCS Group stands out as the UK's premier distributor, manufacturer, and exporter of Health, Beauty, and Household products. As the exclusive representatives for industry giants such as Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Kenvue, PZ Cussons, and SC Johnson, DCS boasts unparalleled multi-channel insight and category expertise. Our recent ventures into expanding our Food distribution business have attracted major brands like Whitworths and Danone, solidifying our position as a key player in the market.

DCS Group takes pride in its passion for excellence in everything we do, our commitment to customers, and the dedication of our team. Operating from two remarkable sites—the 26-acre Banbury Head Office with warehousing facilities and the new, state-of-the-art 100,000 sq. ft Health and Beauty manufacturing facility in Redditch—we embrace our identity as a family-owned business. With a rich ethos, a strong team, and three decades of continuous growth, we offer a unique opportunity to join a welcoming, dynamic, and enjoyable work environment, collaborating directly with the world's leading FMCG power brands.

Due to internal promotion, we are currently looking to recruit passionate  Commercial Managers  to join us on a permanent,  full-time basis.

As a Commercial Manager, your duties will include:

  • As a brand ambassador, you will be responsible for owning and developing category growth within the Wholesale, Convenience, E-commerce and Health sectors, increasing cash-flow by managing supplier aged/disputed debt and recovering costs associated with residuals, overstocks and out of date stock
  • Providing customers with a tailored category management approach, offering them a range of products and promotions to meet their individual needs
  • Communicating and negotiating at all levels, both internally and externally, developing a clear communication channel between our sales team and all supported customers
  • Representation at DCS meetings, events and seminars, building strong relationships with a variety of networks, including customers and suppliers
  • Owning the end to end product recall process, ensuring compliance is met at every stage
  • What we are looking for in our ideal Commercial Manager:

  • You will have outstanding written, verbal and presentation skills, being able to communicate and negotiate effortlessly at all levels with internal and external customers
  • You will be highly motivated, confident, outgoing with a can-do attitude
  • You are flexible to change and thrive in a busy environment, being able to prioritise workload and make effective commercial decisions under pressure
  • You enjoy working in a collaborative environment and are highly team orientated
  • 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 Cafe including free breakfast
  • Staff Shop
  • Social Events
  • 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!


    About DCS Group (UK) Ltd


    DCS GROUP UK is the official distributor for P&G, Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive, Kenvue, SC Johnson, PZ Cussons, Coty, Grenade, and many more household names.

    A UK Top 250 privately owned company, founded by Denys C Shortt OBE in 1994, DCS now has annual sales of more than £250m and employs 600 people. 30+ years of successive growth has pushed DCS to expand in size and this has been facilitated by the recent purchase and move to a 25-acre site in Banbury.

    Since its founding, the company has sold over £2 billion in health and beauty products including £15m in sales of Enliven. Enliven, DCS’ own brand, is produced in-house at the DCS Manufacturing site in Redditch. In addition to this, DCS Manufacturing works with internationally recognised brands and retailers to develop, manufacture and launch Health & Beauty products. The state-of-the-art 100,000-square-foot production facility in Worcestershire is at the centre of our operations.

    Denys Shortt also owns the Enable platform which provides retro and rebate management software to a multitude of blue-chip companies worldwide https://enable.com. Denys Shortt, founder and Chairman, is a former England hockey player with an unerring enthusiasm for the Midlands region. He served as the former Chairman of the Coventry & Warwickshire LEP (Local Enterprise Partnership) and has supported many organisations including the Shakespeare Hospice, Stratford-upon-Avon Football Club, and as Chair of the Stratford Hospital Appeal which has raised over £1m. In recognition of his efforts as LEP Chairman, Denys was awarded an OBE in 2013 for Services to the Economy.

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