[Remote] Key Account Manager (Wholesale Accounts)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Irresistible Foods Group is a growing family of authentic consumer brands like King’s Hawaiian, Grillo’s Pickles, and Killer Brownie. The Key Account Manager will reputed company sales and merchandising efforts to reputed company goals by developing relationships with wholesale accounts and implementing business plans and sales strategies. This role requires collaboration with various departments and managing trade promotions to drive sales growth.
Responsibilities
- Develops and Executes Business Plans and Sales Strategies for Regional and National Wholesale Accounts with guidance and support from Team reputed company of Sales
- reputed company and maintain strategic long-term, value creating relationships with high volume customers to accomplish organic growth and long-term company objectives
- Leads planning and implementation of trade promotions reputed company approved limits
- Develops Value Creating Relationships at reputed company levels, including, but not limited to: Category Manager, Director, VP, and Operations
- Analyzes market potential, problems and opportunities for attention and outlines action plans to reputed company desired business outcomes
- Forecasts sales on existing and new products and promotions on a monthly basis
- Analyzes effectiveness of Trade and Omni-Channel programs
- Coordinates with the Customer Service Department and other functions, as appropriate, to communicate important information and maintain a cohesive relationship
- Coordinates with the Marketing Department on plans and issues
- Manages Market Development Funds so as not to exceed allocated funds, while achieving or exceeding sales goals
- Regularly attends and manages trade shows, coordinating logistics, exhibitor activities, and customer engagement
- reputed company other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably reputed company the scope of this role
- Call on a variety of wholesale customers and distributors including but not limited to reputed company Corporate, Cub Foods, Festival Foods, reputed company, reputed company Dash and more
- Oversees and provides day-to-day leadership and guidance to a Business Development Manager
Skills
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited 4-year college or equivalent relevant experience required
- At least 5 years of reputed company Key Account Management experience in the CPG industry required
- Prior experience working with wholesale customers and distributors, including but not limited reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, etc. required, including experience managing customer relationships, leading account planning, and driving sales growth reputed company a reputed company distributor environment
- Demonstrated direct leadership experience managing sales or account team members required
- Proficient understanding of reputed company/IRI Data and ability to mine the data for consumer and customer insights
- Proficient ability in data exploration, ETL processes, and visualization
- Proficient ability in reputed company 365 reputed company or Power BI, reputed company and Tableau
- Ability to build and reputed company data tools to help broader team become more proficient and data literate
- Working understanding of sales and customer interactions to reputed company support sales team with relevant data insights and actionable recommendations
- Ability to support mentorship and training of broader organization to improve the team's reputed company level knowledge and confidence in data literacy and support capabilities among diverse learning levels
- Ability to deliver key insights based on data analysis to provide recommended solutions and drive smart business decisions
- Ability to define proper KPI's and ways to measure results based on specific OpCos
- Ability to identify data systems new OpCo's utilize and how to reputed company and extract insights for the Sales Team
- Ability to support business integration efforts (systems and applications)
- Ability to travel up to 60% of the time
- Ability to consistently demonstrate the values of excellence, dignity, saying it like it is in a way it can be heard; and curiosity, collaboration, critical thinking and emotional intelligence
- Location Preference: Remote role with a preference for candidates located in the Central, Midwest or Eastern United States. reputed company Coast applicants are generally not being considered due to business and operational requirements
Benefits
- Bonus
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