National Key Account Manager - 7 month fixed term contract
National Key Account Manager - 7 month fixed term contract
About the Function:
Our Sales team love building relationships, connecting with customers to sell our much-loved brands in new and vibrant markets where they can thrive. They help sell our iconic brands across 180 countries every year.
We're operating across different markets, channels, and areas of expertise. Using your curiosity and passion, you'll make the most of consumer insight and digital platforms, reaching new customers, markets, and celebrations to help us achieve our growth potential. We'll support your learning and growth as you develop your career with us and work with people across our business to realize your fullest potential.
About the role:
We are looking for a National Key Account Manager to join the team in Switzerland. It is a great opportunity to take responsibility for developing and growing accounts in the Swiss Off-Trade. If you are interested in a position with significant impact, this one is for you!
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Responsibilities include:
- Management and ownership of your customer accounts in the Off Trade channel. Run full day-to-day business
- Establish and foster relationships at customer level with decision-makers
- Plan and conduct annual negotiations
- Increase sales by identifying distribution opportunities, white spots, optimize promotional plans and activations together with support functions
- Comprehensive analysis of the relevant customer and category data. Elaborate and implement tailormade and data driven customer strategy recommendations
- Support development of customer specific marketing concepts together with Customer Activation and track via measures of success
- Implement new product launches and campaigns
- Facilitate category management projects
- Collaboration with the field organization and important internal stakeholders such as revenue growth management, customer activation, finance, logistics and customer experience team
Experience / skills required:
- Relevant experience in a commercial or Key Account Management role, ideally in an Off-Trade FMCG environment
- University degree (or equivalent) in business administration/economics or similar
- Proven negotiation skills
- Strong ability to build, develop and maintain relationships
- Intuition for business paired with analytical skills
- Engaging teammate, focus on total team delivery
- Positive energy, solution-oriented, self-confident in own area, strong team member, committed to own development, pro-active, structured way of working, strong analytical skills
- Fluent in English and German
Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you, so that you're supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
We recognize and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:
- An inclusive company culture that puts employees and their development first
- A flexible working environment
- A competitive salary with bonus and benefits to suit your lifestyle and needs
- An excellent parental leave policy
- ...and of course, THE best colleagues!
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
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Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- FSA
- FSA With Employer Contribution
- HSA
- HSA With Employer Contribution
- Fitness Subsidies
- Pet Insurance
- Mental Health Benefits
Parental Benefits
- Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
- Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Family Support Resources
- Adoption Leave
Work Flexibility
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Commuter Benefits Program
- Casual Dress
- Happy Hours
- On-Site Cafeteria
- Holiday Events
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Leave of Absence
- Volunteer Time Off
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K)
- Pension
- Stock Purchase Program
- Performance Bonus
- Relocation Assistance
Professional Development
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Promote From Within
- Mentor Program
- Access to Online Courses
- Lunch and Learns
- Internship Program
- Leadership Training Program
- Associate or Rotational Training Program
Diversity and Inclusion
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
- Woman founded/led
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