About the role

  • Customer Account Manager focusing on driving Nutrition business with commercial customers like brokers and retailers. Managing and developing key accounts to achieve sales targets and growth.

Responsibilities

  • Managing the day-to-day responsibilities of commercial and salvage customers
  • Creating and maintaining good business relationships with all buyers
  • Targeting and securing product expansion opportunities
  • Developing, presenting, and planning customers’ annual product needs
  • Creating and finding partnership opportunities with customers
  • Working closely with the Sr. Director to maximize execution at store level
  • Reporting and effectively managing all sales expenses and budgets for the region
  • Working with commercial development organization on development of customer-specific category plans anchored in the category growth drivers
  • Presenting and launching New Item Plan and developing initial field forecast
  • Identifying emerging market trends and opportunities in commercial and salvage sales; analyzing competitor activity
  • Forecasting accuracy, sales performance targets, meeting sales goals, segmentation / resource allocation, improving customer service
  • Achieving annual sales and trade targets through effective selling and negotiation
  • Frequent customer interaction to implement the annual plan, drive execution of the plan, gain distribution on new and d-build items, activate customer category strategies and shopper marketing, and any urgent communications such as service level issues or product quality issues
  • Identifying gaps between customer plan and customer feedback and proposing resolutions to gaps
  • Ensuring achievement of agreed customer(s) targets/Key Performance Indicators (sales, RIG, customer service, in-stock levels, etc.)
  • Monitoring, reviewing, and driving execution of customer category plan
  • Driving category growth and exceeding high performance targets
  • Driving one's own development through the adoption of capability tools

Requirements

  • 5+ years of relevant sales experience working in customer management or commercial development
  • Experience in the fruit or vegetable industry preferred
  • Successful track record of delivering exceptional results (sales, market share gains)
  • National/regional customer experience preferred
  • Ability to maintain and manage profitable growth to drive market share gains
  • Ability to influence people and create compelling, fact-based selling stories
  • Knowledge of sales fundamentals of pricing, promotion, assortment and merchandising, spoils UADs, finance crediting
  • Knowledge of Integrated Commercial Planning process, CAP documents, and the Monthly Business Planning Process
  • Knowledge of customer, the marketplace, and relevant channel and shopper trends to generate actionable ideas
  • Must understand the category, key competitors to develop category knowledge
  • Must understand how to develop customer specific category growth strategies
  • Understands all sales functions, customer and retail sales. Good knowledge of interrelationships of key company functions and their key initiatives
  • Understands the interaction between sales functions, cross-functional teams, customer service and customer facing supply chain
  • Good knowledge of interrelationship of key functions and their key initiatives (Marketing, Sales Finance, HR, Supply Chain, Technical and Globe & IS/IT)
  • Strong proficiency working with Microsoft Office, inclusive of Excel and PowerPoint
  • Strong command of business mathematics with strong analytical skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to think strategically and drive execution against goals
  • Fast Learner who takes initiative with a “fail fast” and “fail forward” mindset

Benefits

  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Disability insurance

Job title

Customer Account Manager

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$76 per hour

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

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