Senior Commercial Manager UK

Prima Cheese Ltd; Seaham; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading dairy manufacturing company is seeking a Senior Commercial Manager to oversee and grow a remote team while driving excellence in client relationships across the food service sector. With a competitive salary, hybrid work model, and extensive benefits, this role offers an exciting opportunity to impact the business directly. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills and proven experience in managing teams, delivering strategies, and analyzing key data to improve business operations.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Bonus

Life Insurance

Company Pension

Employee Assistance Programme

24/7 GP Access

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing remote teams.
• Experience in the food service sector is essential.
• Strong analytical skills for processing key data.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage remote Business Development Managers.
• Create and deliver improvement strategies.
• Collaborate with marketing teams to promote services.

Skills

Leadership skills

Data analysis

Remote team management

Client relationship management

Job description

Hybrid – Full Time – Excellent benefits package

New year. New opportunity. Real impact.

• Competitive Salary & Great Bonus & Benefits Package.
• Based ideally Islington, London - Seaham, Durham would be considered
• Company Pension.
• Life Insurance.
• Employee Benefits Platform.
• Employee Assistance Programme & 24/7 GP Access.
• Opportunity to create and lead a dynamic team and grow your career.

Prima is a leading award winning, multi-site cheese processing company. Operating within B2B markets with an outstanding reputation for quality, consistency, and service. Committed to delivering success and excellence to both our customer and teams in a supportive, collaborative working environment.

With a proud 29 year heritage and continuous expansion this is a fantastic opportunity for a strategic, dynamic leader to join us in our exciting journey to continue to drive growth of business in new market channels.

Are you a dynamic expert in the food service sector, with proven experience of excellent management skills, driving and maintaining client relationships within wholesale cash and carry, multi depot foodservice, food manufacturing and distribution? If so, this could be the ideal opportunity for you to grow your career and add value to a reputable and innovative dairy manufacturing company

The role holder will have experience and skills in:

• Managing a remote team.
• Creation and delivery of improvement strategies.
• Confidently researching, processing, and analysing key data.
• Collaborating with marketing teams and professionally promoting services at trade days.

Our people are the key to our success, the Senior Commercial Manager will need strong leadership skills – recruiting and managing remote Business Development Managers, effectively coaching the team to deliver excellence and efficiency.

Prima continually invests in our people the successful candidate will be joining a forward-thinking environment, committed to supporting and developing our teams.

The successful candidate will report directly to our Co-CEO’s and based in Islington, London which is our commercial and marketing hub, with a visit to our Head Office based in Seaham, County Durham once a month.

Ready for a new challenge? Apply via our careers page:

Prima is an inclusive and diverse workplace, if you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact

Closing date Friday 9 th January 2026

How to apply

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