UK National Account Manager

The Role: Why This Job Exists We're looking for a dynamic, driven UK National Account Manager to join our team and take ownership of key UK accounts. This role is crucial in growing our UK business-achieving annual turnover and profit growth targets through the management of a portfolio of high-profile retail partners. If you're passionate about retail, love building relationships, and can bring the sparkle with data-driven strategy, let's talk! What You'll Be Responsible For

• Manage all aspects of key accounts: listings, launches, terms negotiation, promos, and growth strategy.
• Drive new business opportunities and optimise existing relationships.
• Maintain administrative excellence-accurate forecasting, contract management, and sales reports.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders to deliver seamless execution.
• Present compelling brand strategies and seasonal concepts to raise customer engagement.
• Support product development by feeding in market insights and customer feedback.
• Use data as your superpower-flag risks, spot trends, and turn challenges into opportunities.
• Create beautiful, bold, and effective customer-facing presentations.
• Be a role model for the illooms way-curious, creative, commercial.
Key Relationships
• Internal: Full collaboration across Sales, Design Studio, Supply Chain, Customer Service, and Project Management.
• External: Primary contact for retail buying teams.
  
  Previous experience managing national retail accounts (ideally in consumer goods, toy or party categories a plus)
• A head for numbers and heart for creative selling
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to juggle multiple fast-paced priorities
• Someone who thrives on autonomy, but collaborates like a champ
• Confident presenting to buyers, partners, and internal stakeholders
• A love of product, brand, and bringing ideas to life
  
  At illooms, we're the original-and still the best-light-up balloon brand in the world. Since launching in 2008, we've grown into a global market leader, with over $400 million in retail sales, strong partnerships across the UK, US, and Europe, and more than 240 global patents backing our innovation.
Everything we do is designed and delivered in-house-from bold product design to cutting-edge technology and retail-ready POS. We're trusted by top retailers including Walmart, Target, Amazon, and leading UK supermarkets, and we continue to expand with sustainable new product lines, smart in-store solutions, and fresh ways to light up every celebration.


• Competitive salary & bonus
• Opportunity to work with a category-leading brand
• Creative, fast-paced, collaborative working culture
• Flexibility: this role is office-based but includes WFH options
• Balloons. Lots of them.
Interested?