Key Account Manager

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Bucharest, București, ROU
In-Office
Senior level
Food
The Role
Manage strategic relationships with key retail customers to drive profitable sales growth across assortment, shelving, pricing, promotions and seasonal merchandising. Lead product launches, deliver data-driven presentations and category insights, ensure accurate forecasting, manage trade funds compliance, and execute customer plans to meet revenue and profit targets.
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Job Description:

As a Key Account Manager, you’ll play a critical role in driving profitable sales with key customers for Mars 🐱, home to some of the world’s most beloved brands 🐈 🐕. This role requires a dynamic relationship-builder and results-oriented strategist who can execute winning customer plans that deliver across key levers: revenue, profit, assortment, shelving, pricing, promotions, and seasonal merchandising.
What are we looking for?
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or a related field

  • 5+ years of sales experience in the FMCG industry

  • Proven success managing retail key accounts

  • Proficiency in Romanian and English required.

  • Strong knowledge of forecasting, Nielsen data, and trade management systems 📈

  • Willingness to travel up to 10% 🌍

  • Valid driver’s license and a clean driving record 🚗

  • A strong love for pets 🐱ྀི ⋆🐾° ᡣ𐭩

What will be your key responsibilities?

✅ Create and execute customer solutions that drive profitable sales growth across seasonal events, product placement, shelving, merchandising, and pricing—aligned with customer objectives, category leadership, and company goals
✅ Influence customers by delivering fact-based presentations that lead to mutually beneficial outcomes
✅ Lead new product launches with timely and effective execution to maximize customer impact
✅ Ensure accurate forecasting and follow-through on all agreed solutions with customers
✅ Manage customer trade funds in compliance with internal and external requirements, continuously improving the effectiveness of spending
✅ Provide customers with relevant category insights and make strategic recommendations for growth. Collect and share customer feedback along with potential solutions

What can you expect from Mars?
  • Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.

  • Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.

  • Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.

  • An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or a related field
  • 5+ years of sales experience in the FMCG industry
  • Proven success managing retail key accounts
  • Proficiency in Romanian and English
  • Strong knowledge of forecasting, Nielsen data, and trade management systems
  • Willingness to travel up to 10%
  • Valid driver's license and a clean driving record
  • A strong love for pets

Mars Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mars and has not been reviewed or approved by Mars.

  • Healthcare Strength The benefits package is positioned as comprehensive, with broad medical coverage and additional protections like life insurance and short- and long-term disability. Mental health support is emphasized, including free mental health services and wellbeing programming under initiatives such as Mars Be Well.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave is highlighted as market-leading in the U.S., with an example of 18 weeks fully paid for both parents. Additional family-related leave types such as sick time for caregiving and bereavement leave are also described as part of the overall package.
  • Retirement Support Retirement offerings are described as strong, including 401(k) matching (with a 6% match cited) and pension plans in some cases. The broader package also references retirement savings options and contributions aligned to local market practice, supporting long-term financial security.

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The Company
HQ: Mc Lean, VA
41,866 Employees
Year Founded: 1911

What We Do

For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us. Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™. We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.

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