Business Development Manager- Key Accounts

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Job Description: Business Development Manager – Key Accounts Role overview: The business development manager is a key role within the sales organization. This role acts as a bridge between strategy and execution, and is in charge of leveraging head office contacts and relationships to enable and facilitate store execution, ensure sustained quality growth, and meet executional & strategic business objectives. What defines success in this role: Effectively communicate strategic initiatives, activations & launches to external stakeholders and ensuring solid plans are built and aligned. Build solid relationships across the customer hierarchy and leverage those relationships to achieve category growth. Represent the channel/customer internally across the different internal functional forums and efficiently communicate, secure and define what success looks like. Team player: Able to rally internal stakeholders and cross functions around the channel objectives. Liaise with the field sales team and facilitate timely execution by proactively tracking and measuring sales and execution KPIs, as well as driving accountability across the different functions. Growth mindset: must have a passion for sustainable growth. Collaborate with the Customer Service and Supply department to provide an efficient supply chain and a high-level service for the customer. Effective cooperation with the Demand planning department to ensure effective long term sales forecasting. Effective budget management and tracking: Is responsible for short term budget spends end to end including tracking customer deductions as well as timely market collections. ROI mindset: ensure all trade spend results in positive net sales return, and has a positive impact on trade leverage index. Timely and effective business reviews preparation , both internally and externally. This role is expected to be the key communication point of the channel/customer and will represent the channel in business updates for the upper management: Effective communication & story telling – Comfortable building powerpoint presentations are a must. Strong negotiation skills: This role is expected to lead on both short term negotiations such as monthly rentals and long term negotiations such as BDAs and strategic projects. DCOM exposure is a big plus: this role is expected to be competent and knowledgeable in digital commerce and will help drive category growth and build a solid presence in the online sales of the customer. Key Functional competencies & Technical skills: Financial and analytical acumen Drives Results Customer management Leveraging Insights into Action Negotiation Category & Shopper Acumen Managing Ambiguity Execute & Evaluate Results Build collaborative relationships Demand planning (Forecasting) Omni-channel acumen Action oriented Effective Communication Education & Professional Qualifications: A Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Sales, or a comparable discipline. 5+ years experience in sales function in TOP FMCG companies. Experience in Key Accounts is a plus.