Job Location
JOHANNESBURG GENERAL OFFICEJob Description
The Key Account Manager role focuses on driving sales at the headquarters level. The role is crucial in establishing and maintaining strong relationships with customers, understanding their needs, and ensuring our products meet those needs. This job family plays a vital role in achieving our sales targets and contributing to our company's overall growth. This role involves working under direct supervision, focusing on specific tasks or segments within a brand, channel, or category. The individual will collaborate effectively within the immediate team and will be responsible for accomplishing tasks as an individual contributor with close supervision.
Key Responsibilities:
Supports and assists in executing sales strategies in team / organization.
Participates in the development and implementation of new ideas, techniques, procedures, services, or products under guidance.
Focuses on specific tasks or segments within a brand, channel, line, category or team / organization with clearly defined and narrow objectives.
Collaborates and networks effectively within immediate team or work domain as required to maximize job impact and personal learning.
Works under direct supervision, follows well-defined precedents and policies.
Job Qualifications
A bachelor's degree in business administration, marketing, or related field.
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships with customers.
An understanding of sales strategies and techniques.
A desire to learn and grow within the organization.
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
Strong initiative and problem solving
Excellent MS Office Package skills (MS Excel specifically)
Positive attitude towards challenges and changes
Good interpersonal and multinational cooperation skills
Excellent analytical thinking and leadership skills
How much do you know about us?
We offer meaningful challenges day one and effective and constant training. Thus, we bring to bear the strengths of our employees and develop them to become phenomenal leaders. In addition, diversity is very important for us: we seek the most diverse talent so that we always know how to innovate to exceed the expectations of our 5 billion consumers in the world. Therefore, working with us is the best opportunity to do what you love, with constant challenges and to be recognized for its results. More than that, it's the ideal opportunity to help us touch and improve billions of lives in our world.
For over 180 years, we have built some of the world’s most successful brands, including Ariel®, Tide®, Pantene®, Pampers®, and Gillette®. We believe in serving the consumer and ensuring our organization, talent and brand building reflects the diversity and needs of the approximate 5 billion people around the world we serve through our brands. We value leadership as well as deep understanding and offer fulfilling career opportunities that make us an unbeatable force in our industry.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
You'll not be discriminated on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Job Schedule
Full timeJob Number
R000141196Job Segmentation
Entry LevelSkills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, marketing, or related field
- Strong interpersonal skills to build customer relationships
- Understanding of sales strategies and techniques
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
- Strong initiative and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent MS Office Package skills (MS Excel specifically)
- Positive attitude towards challenges
- Good interpersonal and multinational cooperation skills
- Excellent analytical thinking and leadership skills
Procter & Gamble Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Procter & Gamble and has not been reviewed or approved by Procter & Gamble.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is considered competitive and benchmarked against top industry peers, supported by formal pay‑equity audits and stated transparent principles. Feedback suggests pay is a strong draw, with raises described as attainable and benefits starting from day one of training.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is broad and immediate, including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, with mental‑health and telemedicine offerings expanded recently. This breadth and day‑one access contribute to a perception of reliable, comprehensive care.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is inclusive under a global framework for all parents, with added recovery time for birth mothers. Adoption, fertility, childcare support and eldercare services further strengthen family support.
Procter & Gamble Insights
What We Do
Procter & Gamble Company is an American multi-national consumer goods corporation. P&G was founded over 180 years ago as a soap and candle company. Today, we’re the world’s largest consumer goods company and home to iconic, trusted brands, including Always®, Charmin®, Braun®, Fairy®, Febreze®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Oral B®, Pantene®, Pampers®, Tide®, and Vicks®. The design, development, growth and success of these products—and many more—is thanks to the innovative and insightful minds of our people. From Day 1, you’ll help make everyday life easier for our 5 billion consumers through billion dollar brands. With our large global footprint, there are many opportunities to work with P&G in multiple locations. We offer opportunities in approximately 70 countries and continually aim to attract, reward and advance the finest people in the world. As a "build from within" organization, we see 95% of our people start at an entry level and progress through the organization. Here, we want you to get your career off to a fast start. That's why we don't have any rotational development programs or gradual ramping-up periods: you’ll be able—and encouraged—to dive right in from day 1. Join us and help make life better through meaningful work that makes an impact from Day 1.








