Senior Customer Account Specialist (Ahold Delhaize)

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The Senior Customer Account Specialist is directly responsible for calling on the key indirect groups supporting the Ahold Delhaize account team. This is a unique opportunity to be the contact for the assigned customer and category to drive category growth and achieve annual sales and commercial spend targets.

Location: The ideal candidate will be onsite in Arlington, VA and will be expected to travel for customer facing meetings.

Responsibilities:

• Drive category growth and achieve annual sales and commercial spend targets.
• Develop category driving business plans such as new item presentations, 4P focused initiatives, and other customer presentations.
• Where appropriate, support in Business Planning tools through proper distribution tracking, promotion administration, forecasting, and deduction management.
• Utilize key tools from the Data and Reporting Team to support 4P objectives.
• Identify insights and specific opportunities based on analysis of category reports generated by the Data and Reporting Team and provide recommendations
• Partner with CMI to transform shopper insights into action
• Partner with the Data and Reporting team to transform 4Ps analytics and insights into action.
• Effectively manage commercial spend in ISW to achieve sales volume goals and trade spend goals, including administration, record keeping, tracking and follow-up
• Collaborate with Sales Finance Manager on financial reconciliation on a monthly basis
• Responsible for timely and effective communication of customer/category and forecast information
• For customer presentations, develop/customize category plan based selling stories regarding assortment, new items, pricing, promotions, display/merchandising tactics, analyses and plans.
• Participate in the development of Customer Category Business Plan(s) with customer(s) and work with customer personnel to drive the execution of the customer category plan.
• Improve selling capabilities and adding customer value through improved analytics and insights, and continuous improvement
• Ensure timely and professional participation in career development programs
• Drive one's own development through the adoption of capability tools
• Develop critical behaviors through robust PDP process
• Act as Peer Coach and provide training to analysts
• Actively ensure effective communication with Commercial Development, Retail Marketing and Supply Chain partners

Requirements:

• University Degree (BA/BS) or equivalent experience and minimum 5 years of related work experience
• 1+ years of experience in a previous Account Management role, or similar experience. Previous ADUSA experience preferred.
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
• Experience working with data (i.e syndicated data, shopper marketing data, supply chain data) and Numerator
• Strong presentation skills
• Experience in leading/owning projects on previous teams
• Successfully delivered on KPI objectives in previous roles
• Good working knowledge of channel of trade customer base in Grocery, Mass and New Business
• Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the sales fundamentals
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written, strong judgement in decision making, good problem solving skills, thinks strategically, and a customer service orientation
• Takes the initiative to execute with minimal supervision
• Challenges current processes, generating innovative suggestions that improve performance even beyond own role
• Takes immediate action to resolve issues or potential issues, ensuring stakeholders are properly communicated to about the potential impact
• Puts in persistent and if necessary, extra effort to accomplish goals and maintain a high level of productivity
• Proactively identifies opportunities beyond what is expected in own role
• Travel is required for customer facing meetings

Requisition ID: 327159

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