Key Account Manager

Dyson; Köln; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading technology company is seeking a Key Account Manager in Cologne to manage and grow beauty-focused retail accounts. You will develop strategic plans, lead product launches, and drive sales targets. The role requires 5+ years of experience in sales or account management, with fluency in German and English. Exceptional communication and analytical skills are essential. Join a dynamic environment focused on collaboration and creativity without regular hybrid arrangements.

Leistungen

Comprehensive financial benefits

Lifestyle and health support

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years’ experience in sales or key account management.
• Proven experience with strategic customers and building professional networks.
• Results-driven, structured, creative, flexible, and resilient.

Aufgaben

• Develop and execute strategic annual account plans.
• Own sales and gross margin targets.
• Lead product launches and campaigns.
• Elevate the Dyson brand and categories.
• Drive retail media and maximize ecommerce performance.
• Collaborate with internal teams to maximize ROI.
• Deliver compelling business reviews to senior partners.
• Strengthen relationships with existing customers.

Kenntnisse

Sales experience

Key account management

Fluent in German and English

Proficient in Microsoft Office

Strong communication skills

Analytical skills

Jobbeschreibung

About us

At Dyson, we solve the problems others choose to ignore, with surprising new inventions that defy convention and simply work better. We’re driven by progress and thrive on the challenge of relentless improvement.

Our Key Account Management team is where strategy meets partnership. We build and nurture lasting relationships with our most important retail partners, ensuring Dyson’s groundbreaking technology reaches more people, through channels that elevate our brand.

About the role

We're seeking a Key Account Manager to manage and grow our beauty-focused retail accounts in Germany. You’ll join our Sales team in Cologne, working at the heart of our business. Your mission: deliver ambitious profit and growth targets by building standout partnerships and executing Dyson’s strategy flawlessly—on the ground and online.

You will

• Develop and execute strategic annual account plans that align Dyson and retailer priorities.
• Own sales and gross margin targets, using sharp forecasting and promotional planning.
• Lead product launches and campaigns, ensuring standout results with our German retail partners.
• Elevate the Dyson brand and categories both in-store and online, always aiming for the highest standards.
• Drive retail media and maximise the ecommerce equation—traffic, conversion, AOV, and sales—on partner websites.
• Collaborate with internal teams (activation, media, category management) to maximise ROI and shopper engagement.
• Deliver compelling business reviews and proposals to senior retail partners.
• Strengthen relationships with existing customers and actively identify new, strategic partners.

About you

• 5+ years’ experience in sales or key account management
• Distinctive, authentic, and ambitious—motivated to always be better
• Results-driven, structured, creative, flexible, and resilient
• Proven experience with strategic customers and building professional networks
• Strong communicator with confidence at management level
• Analytically sharp and highly persuasive
• Fluent in German and English (written and spoken)
• Proficient with Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint

Reward

At Dyson, Reward goes beyond just salary and bonuses. Through a comprehensive package of Financial, Lifestyle, and Health Benefits, we provide support tailored to every stage of life and the moments that matter most.

Working policy

At Dyson, our vibrant campus culture is built on in-person collaboration, creativity, and shared learning. Working side by side not only fuels our innovation, but also creates a strong sense of belonging. To nurture this dynamic and inclusive environment, we do not offer a regular hybrid working arrangement.

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.