Senior Customer Sales Manager - Dollar General

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Goodlettsville, TN
Hybrid
Senior level
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The Role
The Senior Customer Sales Manager at Kraft Heinz is responsible for managing sales efforts with key customers, developing business plans, driving promotional strategies, and building strong customer relationships to achieve revenue and category objectives.
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Job Description
Here at Kraft Heinz, our US Sales team aspires to be an Indispensable Partner with a Growth and Winning Mindset, acutely focused on Superior Execution every day. This is our guiding compass to grow something great and make life delicious!
The Senior Customer Sales Manager (Sr. CSM) owns the selling efforts with their customer as a member of a Customer Business Team (CBT). The position represents & serves as the face of Kraft Heinz to the Customer's Category Management and Buying Office personnel. The Sr. CSM leads their categories effectively, responsible for all the selling activities across the portfolio their customer to deliver revenue and share objectives, pursue business strategies to grow the company franchises through the use of customer-specific programs, provides category management expertise, and ensuring that coordinated cross-functional sales value is delivered through implementation of the sales plan and shelving objectives .
Essential Functions & Responsibilities

  • Build Kraft Heinz business with a Growth Mindset measured by profitability achievement, share gains, revenue targets, special programs, new and core item introductions/distribution through implementing prices strategies for all assigned categories
  • Effectively penetrate the customer to establish rapport at all levels and to fully understand the customer, their business, and the marketplace
  • Develop tracks, analyzes, evaluates and develops business plans based on cross-functional support via Business Unit/HQ, customer strategies/initiatives and external factors
  • Drive efficient and effective trade programs to deliver the best value and administers volume and trade promotion spending levels within budget while handling trade dollars as percent of revenue for maximum results
  • Leads regular category & business reviews with customer category managers & key account management personnel to affect positive business growth through seamless communication
  • Leads and/or assists with major business reviews and customer visits, including annual reviews and "top-to-top" meetings
  • Leverages available resources to elevate executional excellence across cross functional business planning in category mgmt., supply chain efficiency, technology, local marketing to facilitate growth
  • Applies insight information, both internal and external, to build total customer profits and plans
  • Achieve CBT New Item Authorization and Distribution goals, promotional revenue objectives by tactic, price point, Drive Period & Selling Event for their assigned categories and customer


Expected Experience & Required Skills

  • Proven experience in annual cycles leading customer management, account management, and/or retail sales management for a complex Sales role in a CPG company where you owned a desk of at least $75 million of business.
  • Previous experience with value or limited assortment retailers
  • Tested experience in building effective customer relationships to drive customer loyalty/engagement while selling to achieve objectives
  • Clear examples of exhibiting superlative interpersonal skills (written, verbal, and presentation) with potential to negotiate and influence effectively
  • Exhibits strong financial acumen-understanding of profit, revenue drivers and return on investment analysis, with proficiency in deploying and managing trade in previous roles
  • Tested examples exhibiting critical thinking & decision-making skills through utilizing data to story-tell and drive business results across multiple stakeholders
  • Reside in the Nashville geography or open to relocation.
  • Willing to travel 10-20% out of the area as needed


Work Environment & Schedule
This position is considered a hybrid office environment with limited travel or visits to external locations; offices are open workspaces. Additionally, this role requires ability to work a salaried, exempt schedule to best execute against customer and internal expectations.
Physical demands include but not limited to

  • Willingness to drive and/or travel as needed
  • Operate a computer and view screens for ~100% of work schedule


Location(s)
Goodlettsville Office
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require an accommodation to participate in the job application or hiring process should contact [email protected] .

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HQ: Chicago, IL
38,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

At the heart of this journey is our ambition to create an enterprise where powerful AI solutions augment humans and where small mission-based teams are in relentless pursuit to solve tangible problems for our consumers, customers, and the enterprise. That ambition requires us to create a modern cloud and data ecosystem - a one of its kind that becomes the neural network of our company. We want you to bring your tech-self to us. We use Python, R, Spark, React, Tableau, Snowflake, Azure, and others to solve the problem on hand. In-turn, you can look forward to high-impact challenges, no bureaucracy, entrepreneurial small teams, and a unique opportunity to create and build something bold, awesome, and impactful – all while honoring our 150-year heritage and a portfolio of 200 iconic and emerging brands!

Why Work With Us

Our ambition is to become a best-in-class Digital leader by making data-driven investments that drive smarter business decisions. You’ll invent the next wave of augmented intelligence products where software & humans work side-by-side to rethink every aspect of our company. You’ll make an imprint & leave your legacy on every part of our business.

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Kraft Heinz Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

We also believe providing a more flexible and agile model is essential in today’s workplace. A majority of our office-based employees will be able to work remotely for up to two days each week.

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
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