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Current Role

Technical Customer Champion

Commercial Team Member – Technical Customer Champion Bradford (A650 Tong)

Remuneration £34k OTE

Are you a few years into your career and ready for a new challenge? A bit disillusioned? Are you wanting to develop and are looking for guidance and training? Are you looking for a business to recognise your commercial strengths and invest in you for the long term?

Our culture is very important to us and is captured by the values - Caring, Sharing, Being Different. This is equally important for our relationships with our people, our customers and our suppliers. We all work by these principles on a daily basis, it drives our decisions.

We are the largest UK distributor of polypropylene, laminates and special films. Our customers include large UK food manufacturers, for example Greggs, Premier Foods (Mr Kipling) and Burtons Biscuits. The products we supply are technically bespoke for individual applications.

We have a track record of developing our people and for them to move around the business after an initial period has been completed. We have a Commercial Academy which is structured to train and develop our people as a team and individually. This helps develop technical skills but also personal skills that you can take into everyday life and relationships. We are passionate about training and developing each of our team.

We don’t pay it lip service. We book it in and we do it! About this role We supply plain and printed packaging films and pouches to large food companies and make sure they always have a good quality product available to them, whenever they need it.

This is a technical role which involves working closely with our suppliers who are based around the world. It is a key role for us because every supplier we have is important and having close relationships with the people at our suppliers at all levels, regardless of culture and location, is key to getting what we need for our customers. Managing projects from reviewing artwork and proofs, to passing off on press are integral parts of the role. One day you could be in the office and the next day on a plane to Europe or the Far East with or without the customer present. Accuracy and precision are very important with a good eye for detail.

Full training will be given, including the different print processes, material properties and supplier and customer relationship management but if you already have experience in any of these areas that would be very beneficial. Your aim is to generate a first class service level.

We would love you to have some experience in a customer service or purchasing role, have some creative ability or a technical side that makes you want to take things apart and understand how they work! But if not, do not worry, we can work on that with the person who has the right attitude and values.

If you feel this may be your next career move we would love to hear from you. Some of the benefits package

£2m monthly bonus scheme
Personal Development Plan
Healthcare and dental plan
Private healthcare including dependents (after 3 years)
Prize draw nights
SIPP pension scheme with company contributions
Team bonus scheme
£50 on your birthday or the day off
23 days paid holiday plus statutory rising to 28 days after 5 years
Twice a year weekend communication meetings
Growth shares
Opportunity to help a charity
Gallup’s Q12 Employee Engagement Survey

This is a set of questions that have been asked of over 2.7m employees over 50 diverse industries around the globe. In November 23 we took part for the first time. We had 100% submission rate and are very proud that we scored 4 times the UK average. However, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t areas to work on and at our weekend workshop in January we reviewed what actions we can take to improve our scores even more this year.

If you would like to apply, please send your CV to mark@nationalflexible.net or contact him for more information.

What is it like working here? 

Here at National Flexible, we are about more than the name above the door. As the UK’s largest distributor of polypropylene, laminates, and special films, we partner with large food manufacturers such as Greggs, Premier Foods (Mr Kipling’s), Burtons Biscuits, and are a leading player in the packaging industry.

Our success is only possible with a talented team and it’s the passion of our people that makes us who we are today.

Embracing innovation, sustainability, and diversity, we are a business that will bring out the best in you, whilst providing you with the opportunity to grow.  

Our Vision

To create a profitable business managed and staffed by a group of well trained, highly motivated people who share common objectives and gain mutual benefits from their own success and that of others.

These benefits should not just be financial or shares, but personal fulfilment and enjoyment from their role.

Playing our Part

• We help our customers choose the best packaging for their product and the planet. We are innovative problem solvers. The Academy
• We are a Climate Positive Workforce. All our carbon emissions are offset by funding climate change solutions around the world, for example providing cookstoves in Tanzania, generating electricity from landfill in Brazil and producing electricity from waste biomass in Chile. Climate Positive Workforce
• We have solar panels on our roof which power our business.
• We recycle 100% of our waste.
• We are planting trees both in God's own Country (Yorkshire), Scotland and around the world.
• We support charities by donation, fund raising challenges and giving our time.

Sustainability Page

Some charities we have supported this year