Customer Business Development District Manager

About the Role

The main purpose of the role is to manage Ferrero business in the assigned territory in all offline channels (Modern Trade and General Trade), achieving sales target and company’s objectives according to company guidelines.

• Business Management
• Ensure the achievement of the defined sales target in terms of turnover, trade spending, returned products and quality aspects, abiding to Ferrero guidelines;
• Forecast the business in terms of stores sell- in, sell- out, stock and resources (Promotion, Promotion Girls, POSM, trade spending);
• Ensure the execution of the activities established by Marketing and Trade Marketing in terms of brands, distribution and visibility (shelf-planogram, secondary display, check- outs);
• Analyze and control business data and results and define improvement initiatives.
• Distributor Management
• Implement selection process and define with distributor the level of service expected (business model, distributor sales force, KPIs), monitoring the actual outcome;
• Manage the distributor’s performance evaluation process and contract review;
• Ensure that the distributor’s warehouse’s conditions abide quality requirements;
• Manage distributor’s stock;
• Ensure the availability and reliability of distributor data.
• Team Management
• Permanent coaching and individual evaluation and development of the knowledge and selling skills of every team member, lead their performance evaluation process;
• Build team’s talent pipeline.

• College degree or above, English CET 4, familiar with MS office;
• Relevant work experience in FMCG companies in Field Sales, responsible for the business of all channels (MT and GT);
• Solid sales technique, strong negotiation ability, excellent knowledge of offline business in the assigned district both in MT and GT;
• Excellent leadership and communication skills. Self-motivated, able to work under pressure.
• Chinese Local Labor contract with local salary & benefits package will be offered for this position.
• Proficiency in Mandarin speaking.

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Ferrero began its journey in the small town of Alba in Piedmont, Italy, in 1946. Today, it is one of the world’s largest sweet-packaged food companies, with many iconic brands sold in countries all over the world. Find out more about Ferrero at

Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey  diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative, and highly rewarding.

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