Account Manager - US

Kids2; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Kids2 is searching for an Account Manager to drive profitable sales and achieve share growth in both eCommerce and brick-and-mortar channels in the Atlanta area. You will be the lead contact with customers and coordinate with internal teams to execute pricing, promotions, and plans aligned with the sales strategy.

The role requires 3–5 years selling consumer products, strong collaboration across departments, and solid financial/analytic skills to manage profitability and ROI on trade spend.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3–5 years selling consumer products.
• Ability to develop collaborative relationships with management in national accounts and cross-functional teams.
• Financial and analytical skills to manage account profitability and investments.
• Experience in eCommerce is highly desired.
• Experience in marketing and product management in consumer products is highly desired.

Responsibilities

• Achieve profitable sales and share growth in line with sales plan goals/objectives.
• Primary contact on daily operations of the business.
• Achieve merchandising objectives, new item acceptance and budget adherence.
• Develop a financial plan that delivers positive ROI on trade spending.
• Build relationships across customer levels and with cross-functional teams.
• Coordinate with demand planning to provide forecasts for new concepts and annual plans.
• Negotiate and secure contract terms and delivery of agreed metrics.
• Manage supply chain initiatives via S&OP to optimize ship point mix.

Skills

Account management

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial analysis

eCommerce experience

Consumer products marketing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Sales, Business Administration, or related field

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Word

Job description

This role is responsible for leading the assigned business results including sales volume, spending within budget and share growth. The Account Manager is the lead contact with the customer and has significant internal collaboration. The role indirectly leads a cross functional team to develop long term plans based on insight, impact shelving/distribution modifications and execute pricing/promotion tactics to enable goal delivery. This role requires execution in both eCommerce and brick and mortar environments.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Responsible for achieving profitable sales and share growth in alignment with sales plan goals/objectives.
• Primary contact on items relating to daily operations of the business
• Achieve merchandising objectives, new item acceptance and budget adherence
• Fiscal responsibility, specifically associated with developing, and delivering a financial plan that is achieves planned spend and delivers a positive ROI contribution on trade spending.
• Develop effective and productive relationships within all levels of customer, as well as with cross-functional teams.
• Work with cross functional / sales business unit resources to develop execution plans that align with the sales business unit strategies.
• Analyze business opportunities and provide input into the development of go-to-market (i.e. new item launches, trade deployment, pack creation, etc.) plans and activity sets.
• Work collaboratively with demand planning to provide annual and ongoing customer forecasting for new product concepts, initiatives, and annual brand plans.
• Comfortable negotiating and ensuring delivery of agreed upon metrics and contract value; secure terms for contracts, with the ability to bargain and negotiate concessions in the interest of parsing out a final contract containing terms by which all parties agree to abide.
• Manage supply chain initiatives through S&OP process to optimize ship point mix, new fulfillment opportunities, planning for peak periods and improvements on scorecard/chargebacks.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• A minimum of 3-5 years selling consumer products.
• Proven ability to develop collaborative relationships with management in national accounts, and across internal cross-functional departments is required.
• Financial and analytical skills to manage account profitability and investments is required.
• Experience in eCommerce is highly desired.
• Experience in marketing and product management in consumer products is highly desired.

EDUCATION & SKILLS

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university in Sales, Business Administration, eCommerce or related field.
• Creative, highly-motivated, self-starter, detail-oriented, organized, can efficiently work in an extremely fast-paced environment, a team player and possess excellent verbal and visual communication skills.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

• None required.

COMPUTER/TYPING SKILLS

• Must be proficient in PowerPoint, Excel and Word.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; have flexible use of hands; and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and color vision.