The Manager, Sales Account Management – Family Dollar is responsible for developing the SCJ business at Family Dollar through clear customer focus and effective business planning using a fact-based approach to understand opportunities, strengths and objectives of Family Dollar. Family Dollar normally requires a significant amount of lead time for promotion and sales planning and previous successful account management experience is critical to effective job performance.

The candidate for this position must possess experience that demonstrates an understanding of the complexities of cross-functional partnership, supply chain management, forecasting, deal management techniques, syndicated data analysis, shopper insights, negotiation, merchandising, and promotion development, and utilize the appropriate techniques and skills to build relationships at Walgreens and gain the support for identified growth opportunities in alignment with the SCJ North America and Global strategy. Experience in the Value Channel within Household and/or Health and Wellness product categories is strongly preferred.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Accountable for directing all activities of assigned account to achieve growth objectives
• Build strong customer relationships that result in partnership opportunities which drive sales, market share and profit growth
• Develop and implement an annual corporate business plan aligned with objectives of Director of Value Channel and partner cross-functionally to execute the plan
• Identify ongoing distribution, promotion, and merchandising opportunities and develop recommendations and solutions that are aligned with corporate and customer goals

Required Skills / Experience / Competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5+ years of relevant business experience

Preferred Skills / Experience / Competencies:

• Experience in Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) or Value Channel within Household or Health and Wellness categories (strongly preferred)
• Category/shelf management or Trade Marketing experience, Syndicated data analysis, Internal planning and forecasting system and negotiation
• Working knowledge of Consumer and Shopper Insights and application potential
• Demonstrated ability to penetrate a customer at relevant levels and add value
• Previous ABM/MABM (internal or external) experience and proficiency in computer skills and financial knowledge
• Understanding of the Value Channel or Family Dollar business model and the key drivers that impact the P&L at the customer and SCJ
• Ability to balance risk versus ROI. Balance critical financial needs of SCJ and Family Dollar
• Demonstrated experience interfacing with buyers and building customer relationships

Technical Skills

• Sales experience in a CPG company.
• Willingness to travel to meet customer needs.
• Previous experience in category/shelf management or Trade Marketing.
• Working knowledge of Consumer Insights and application potential.
• Demonstrated proficiency in the use of the Plan It tool.
• Demonstrated ability to penetrate the account at all levels adding value to the process.
• Previous ABM/MABM (internal or external) experience and proficiency in computer skills and financial knowledge.
• Understanding of the customer’s business models and the key drivers that impact the customers P&L, from the customers as well as from SCJ’s prospective.
• Ability to balance risk versus ROI. Understand risk, profit contributions and JVM. Balance critical financial needs of SCJ versus account.
• Demonstrated experience building customer relationships.

Leadership Skills

• Previous experience providing strategy and direction to customers and employees.
• Demonstrate effective (internal or external) people management skills.
• Ability to motivate cross functional groups to common goals.
• Ability to penetrate the account at all levels adding value to the process.
• Ability to adapt to changing work and customer demands.

Decision-Making Responsibility

• Family Dollar specific strategic business plans
• Sales forecasting
• Deal spending within budget
• Distribution and Merchandising recommendations for Family Dollar
• Pricing and promotion recommendations for Family Dollar
• T&E spending within budget
• Business responsibilities (with Director alignment)

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