Job Description
Position Summary:
Sales professional responsible for growing market share with specified accounts in an assigned territory. Achieve and/or exceed sales quotas by calling on current and prospective accounts.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop tactics to grow market share for large and complex customer businesses through customer relationship management, understanding their opportunities and challenges and developing a business plan that will achieve a win-win for both the customers and company.
- Execute sales strategy and monitor customer performance. Review performance data with customers to influence buying and advertising decisions
- Liaise with internal groups to provide voice of the customer, expand offerings, plan effective forecasts, product delivery and in-store feedback (i.e., Brand Marketing, Pricing, Promotions and Trade, Supply Chain Management, Logistics and Regional Training Managers)
- Maintain brand and product knowledge through formal and informal product training, review of product roadmaps and competitive intelligence
- Manage schedule and handle administrative tasks with support from Inside Sales team
- Implement strategies to expand market share with medium to large regional accounts in an assigned territory
- Create business plans to plan for overall revenue and unit targets, as well as individual product category targets
- Participate in the design and execution of the go to market strategy with regular and periodic tracking and reporting
- Provide regular and timely observation of pipeline trends with corrective actions and reporting
- Manage forecast accuracy and align with Product Management
- Manage channel and LG inventory levels for optimization
- Liaise with internal groups to optimize marketing dollars and activities for maximum brand exposure and growth
- Manage administrative tasks with support from Inside Sales team
Requirements/ Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree; MBA desirable.
- 5 years of sales experience with a proven track record of results
- Strong relationship builder, outstanding communications skills, solid business acumen and thought leadership in sales, marketing, operations, finance and account P&