National Account Manager -Giant Eagle

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

You ensure that customer plans are developed and executed by supporting the delivery of strategies and tactics for growth. You understand the business metrics and financial drivers needed to unlock profitable growth for Mondelēz International and our customers and work with key account managers to implement plans to deliver our annual target.

How you will contribute

You will: 

• Lead the development of the trade marketing part of the category annual plans (contract process)
• Understand market dynamics / consumer insights by channel to participate on trade marketing strategic decisions
• Lead the business planning meeting where the sales quotas are built in order to accomplish the annual plans based on relevant building blocks
• Suggest and influence investment in category building blocks, according to category and channel need, and is accountable of execution excellence at point of sale
• Follow up the competition’s commercial activity in the category in order to detect business opportunities and potential threats for the brand
• Play a leadership role within the multi categories teams by leading, providing accurate and relevant channel point of sale information that will lead to find business opportunities such as innovations, customer promotions, portfolio, pricing, etc. that will lead to achieve multi categories targets

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Category planning and delivering growth through category leadership
• Having a future-focused mindset, being curious about industry trends, digital solutions and innovation for consumers, and translating opportunities into business plans
• Developing and delivering plans, measuring and monitoring results and making recommendations to achieve growth targets
• Business planning and how to maximize revenue growth
• Influencing stakeholders and interacting effectively with others with the courage and resilience to hold an alternative point of view
• Analytical skills and business acumen

More about this role

Education / Certifications: Bachelors degree preferred

Job specific requirements:

• Minimum 5 years’ CPG experience in an account management/HQ sales role required.
• Comfortable managing with ambiguity and working in a role where the scope will change over time based on business needs
• Knows how to get things done both through formal channels and informal network
• Understands Mondelez culture and cultures of external retail organizations / customers
• Establishes partnerships with key internal support functions and stakeholders
• Instills trust and credibility with customers in order to influence strategies and tactics
• Understands origin and reasoning behind best practices; shares best practices across team
• Competent presenting to internal and external senior leaders, can be trusted during challenging questioning
• Experience driving success with a cross functional team
• Strong, proactive communication skills
• Customer focus, management planning
• Capability/background in analytics and insights. Specifically, proficient in IRI. Experience managing large trade budget and forecast
• Connection to external industry resources

Travel requirements: Minimal travel

The base salary range for this position is $87,600 to $120,525; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results.

In addition, Mondelez International offers the following benefits: health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.

Business Unit Summary

The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, we produce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brands—including Oreo and  Chips Ahoy! cookies, Ritz, Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers, and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products —are close at hand for our consumers across the country.  

Mondelēz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.

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