Customer Account Manager – Waitrose
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Position Overview & Specifications
- Serve you customer – You will manage the Waitrose/Unilever relationship within your categories and focus on delivering excellent customer experience.
- Shopper first – You will grow categories through insight and exceed shopper expectations.
- Drive digital – You will be able to talk Digital with confidence
- Better deal – The need for extensive commercial rigor in the assessment and implementation of our Growth Strategy to drive the JBP forward.
- Build the base – Through category-based selling improve space, distribution, range & POS for your business.
- Build strong and sustainable customer relationships
- Negotiate effectively with your customer, e.g. to arrange trade terms, trade funding, and counterparts according to the UL strategy on their categories
- Manage the relationship aspects of key customer ‘events’, e.g. launching of new products, cost price changes, breaches of trade terms
- Develop and deliver the customer strategic business plan for relevant categories , and the joint customer business plan, working closely with Category Managers and Shopper Marketing
- Develop and deliver an optimal integrated category promotional plan (including selling the plan with the customer)
- Manage promotional and non-promotional investments with the customer and ensures all arrangements are properly documented and stored
- Work closely with Commercial Executives to ensure administrative aspects of promotions are completed
- Manage the launch of new products with customers, e.g. selling in the new product, providing samples etc
- Ensure effective in-store activation of key events (e.g. promotions, range reviews), providing clear briefings to the Retail Operations Team
- Manage the customer P&L for relevant categories and the overall level of customer investment
- Manage in-month performance vs forecast, working closely with CBMs and Customer Operations
- Manage accruals and pricing accurately and efficiently
- Ensure customer is compliant with arranged trade terms; where these are breached seek a resolution and monitor implementation
- P&L Management: Delivery of Turnover & Business Building Terms targets for specific category
- S&OP Forecasting
- Provision of clear up to date inputs into Business Processes (Promotional Evaluation, Customer
- Business Planning, sales updates, in store tracking, price claim management etc)
- Delivery of required admin for the customer – pricing, rebates, NLF, promo proposals, trade terms, contracts
- Business Results
- specific set of flexible goals
- Business fundamentals from customer category framework
- Customer management & selling essentials - ideally previous experience of performing a CAM role.
- Prior commercial experience and exposure to P&L
- Proven history of working within a team environment
- Prior experience of managing and developing a direct report preferable however not essential
- Suitable years of relevant Account Management/Field Sales experience
- Experience in Shopper Marketing or Category Management is preferable.
- Accountability
- Consumer and Customer Focus
- Bias for Action
- Building Talent and Teams
Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process
Application & Resume Screening
Submit your tailored CV/Resume directly to the talent acquisition portal.
Technical & Competency Interviews
Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.
Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation
Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.
Onboarding & Corporate Integration
Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.
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