Key Account Manager

Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Our Sales teams help to deliver Reckitt's purpose by building shared success with our customers, making access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment possible in-stores and online. Within Sales, we're focused on achieving out performance across all of our channels, operating in highly competitive categories. This focus results in a dynamic, fast paced environment where cross functional teams are encouraged to collaborate to achieve success.

We have around 10,000 sales people across the world, within market roles and ranging in areas like Field Sales, Key Accounts, Trade Marketing and Category Development.

Step into the role of Key Account Manager at Reckitt, where your mastery of relationship-building and strategic partnering with major national trade players will be fundamental in delivering health, hygiene, and nutrition products to consumers. In this dynamic position, you'll be at the forefront of crafting and realising joint business plans, balancing customer success with our own growth. Your dedication to enriching the customer journey and driving sales will see you thriving in a culture committed to commercial excellence and innovation.

• Responsible for achieving strategic objectives per customer – i.e. Net Revenue, Operating Profit, Gross Margin, Net Working Capital
• Build long-term partnerships with the customer. Manage customer negotiations in relation to Reckitt’s commercial strategy and the customer trading terms
• Capitalizing business progression based on expansion plans of the customers to drive
• Implementation and ongoing management of the category strategy per customer
• Responsible for the promotional strategy per customer, and promotional execution (including trade budget management, range and space optimization)
• Responsible for developing customer new product launch plans and ensuring successful implementation
• Continuous improvement in the management of the account by identifying opportunities for efficiency and profitability and overall improvement in the management of categories

• Strong Leadership abilities and business acumen
• Strategic Planning & Monitoring:
  Proactively collect and analyse relevant data and, where necessary, seek new data sources to identify opportunities for corrective action and growth.
• Building Business / Customer Relationships:
  Leads in the management of stakeholder interests and continually enhances relationships while building new stakeholder and company linkage
• Negotiation & Influence:
  Plans and undertakes complex and contractual business negotiations with major customers
• Innovative and creative in designing Key Account strategies
• Minimum 6 years FMCG experience in Sales Account Management
• Educated to minimum bachelor’s degree level ideally in a business-related subject from a recognized University

Key Account Management, Ecommerce, Analysing sales data, Leadership skills, Consumer Insights, Shopper Insights, Category Analysis, Collaboration and partnership skills, Influencing, Consultative Selling, Customer strategy, Channel strategy, Sales strategy development, Perform product planning, Business accumen, commercial accumen, Sales negotiation, P and L Management, Strategy Execution, Operational Excellence.

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally.

We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our…