Senior Key Account Lead - Hybrid Growth & Analytics

Canadian Inclusion; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 109,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus

Hybrid work model

Learning & development

Job summary

Mars Food & Nutrition Canada is seeking a Senior Key Account Manager to drive profitable sales and share growth across grocery accounts. You will manage budgets, trade spend, promotions, pricing, planograms, and new item launches while negotiating with customers.

Based in Bolton with in-office collaboration, the role offers flexible remote work and expects occasional travel (~10%). You will partner across sales, demand planning, and cross-functional teams to deliver go-to-market plans and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience in sales at a retail/account level in CPG.
• Strong analytical skillset, experience working with syndicated data platforms such as Nielsen.
• Experience with joint business planning and execution.
• Able to travel 10% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for achieving profitable sales and share growth in alignment with SCM model & sales plan objectives.
• Responsible for the tactical, daily execution of the business to include merchandising objectives, new item acceptance, assortment optimization, budget adherence, and building customer relationships with the buying desk.
• Key point person for customer on items relating to daily operations of the business.
• Responsible for the development of effective and productive relationships within all levels of customer responsibility, as well as within the sales business unit and cross-functional teams.
• Work with copilots & cross functional business unit resources to develop execution plans that align with the strategy for Mars Food & Nutrition Canada
• Analyze business opportunities and provide input into the development of go-to-market plans (i.e. new item launches, trade deployment, pack creation, etc.)
• Work collaboratively with demand planning to provide annual and ongoing customer forecasting for new product concepts, initiatives, and annual brand plans.
• Lead collaborative planning, recommending new approaches and processes that ensure better customer planning, input, and alignment of improved activity sets.
• Position must analyze and communicate the future and emerging needs within the channel so that Mars Food & Nutrition is in a position to win.
• Fiscal responsibility, specifically associated with developing, managing and delivering a sound financial plan for the account and maintaining a year end position

Skills

Sales

CPG

Syndicated data

Nielsen

Joint planning

Forecasting

Travel planning

Job description

Mars Food & Nutrition Canada is seeking a Senior Key Account Manager to drive profitable sales and share growth across grocery accounts. You will manage budgets, trade spend, promotions, pricing, planograms, and new item launches while negotiating with customers.

Based in Bolton with in-office collaboration, the role offers flexible remote work and expects occasional travel (~10%). You will partner across sales, demand planning, and cross-functional teams to deliver go-to-market plans and