Essity

Account Manager

Essity  •  Dunstable, GB (Onsite)  •  3 hours ago
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Job Description

Do you thrive on implementing wins, and supporting your customers? Are you looking to become part of an innovative and market leading organisation that looks after some of the biggest brands globally.

There are Plenty® of reasons to work at Essity: 

  • High reaching starting salary with annual reviews 
  • Pension 10% employer contribution  
  • Bonus earning potential  
  • Company Car
  • Medical Scheme 
  • Holidays starting at 27 days plus bank holidays (with flexible bank holiday options) 

About the Role

In your role as Account Manager with Essity, your focus will be working with the Tork® brand, you will maintain and develop our market leading position and customer relationships while actively prospecting for new profitable business, covering the East Anglia/East Midlands region.

TORK is the leading global professional hygiene brand with sales in 110 countries. The TORK brand offers professional hygiene products and solutions to customers ranging from restaurants and healthcare facilities to offices, schools and industries. Products include dispensers, paper towels, toilet tissue, soap, napkins, and industrial and kitchen wipers, as well as intelligent washroom dispensing systems.​

Through expertise in hygiene, functional design and sustainability, TORK has become a global market leader.​

What You Will Do

As an Account Manager you will be working directly with distributors within your territory across the East Midlands/East Anglia region You will use value added selling models as well as being comfortable in using your own initiative to drive sales and create new business directly with end customers.

You would be joining a dynamic team that embraces change, empowers its employees, and is committed to developing you and celebrating your success.  This role is ideally suited to a career minded, ambitious individual who is looking for that unique opportunity to prove what they can do and then be rewarded for it.  Even the most experienced people in this position will have the opportunity to expand and improve their skill sets in many areas. 

This role will require regular travel with overnight stays.

Who You Are

  • Proven experience in account management and new business development
  • Strong planning and organisation skills that have delivered against targets
  • Self-motivated, with the ability to seek out sales opportunities
  • Determined, has patience as well as urgency to initiate and develop customer relationships
  • Takes responsibility and is accountable in approach to work objectives and targets
  • Proficient in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and CRM

What We Can Offer You

Our purpose, Breaking Barriers to Well-being, provides meaning to everything we do. Working at Essity means a chance to improve well-being for people and opportunities to drive positive change for the society and the environment. As an employee at Essity, you will belong to an organization where you feel valued and supported to grow, and challenged to generate business results in a collaborative and open atmosphere.

Innovate for Good | Excel Together | Be You with Us

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This role will cover the East Anglia/East Midlands and can be based from: Bedfordshire/Northampton/Ipswich/Newmarket/Cambridge/Suffolk/Norwich

Application End Date:

19 Jul 2026

Job Requisition ID:

Essity263364

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About Essity

Essity - a globally leading hygiene and health company. Our expertise in hygiene and health began with the acquisition of the Swedish company Mölnlycke in 1975, through which our roots stretch back to 1849. Today, our sustainable innovations from globally trusted brands, designed for everybody and every body, care for the well-being of 1 billion people in 150 countries every day.

Working at Essity is not just a career but a chance to make the world healthier, safer, and more hygienic. Our barrier breakers innovate for good and contribute to shaping a sustainable future. At Essity, every career is as unique as the individual. We empower employees to excel together and reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose. We provide a sustainable work-life based on flexibility for both employees and employers. At Essity, we are committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in everything we do. It is the key to our success in creating an inclusive, collaborative, and caring company culture where you can be you with us. Our purpose of Breaking Barriers to Well-being, is to enable customers and consumers to lead fuller lives at all stages of life.

Our leading global brands TENA and Tork, and other strong brands such as Actimove, Cutimed, JOBST, Knix, Leukoplast, Libero, Libresse, Lotus, Modibodi, Nosotras, Saba, Tempo, TOM Organic and Zewa. In 2024, Essity had net sales of approximately SEK 146bn (EUR 13bn) and employed 36,000 people. The company’s headquarters is located in Stockholm, Sweden and Essity is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.If you want to join a company where dedication to people is powered by innovation, welcome to Essity!

Industry
Manufacturing & Production
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Stockholm, SE
Year Founded
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