Account Manager (Premium Waters, Sobeys)

Food & Beverages
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience as an Account Manager with proven business results
  • Proficiency with Nielsen data
  • Experience managing trade spend is advantageous
  • Post-secondary education in a Business-Related field
  • Strong communication, negotiation, and leadership skills
  • Effective data gathering and storytelling abilities

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute sales business plans for assigned categories
  • Analyze issues to meet Nestlé's sales and profitability goals
  • Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Activate Category Roadmap & Sales Playbook initiatives
  • Support Joint Value Creation and Integrated Commercial Plans development
  • Customize sales presentations based on Category Plan
  • Manage commercial spend and maintain accurate records

Benefits

  • Competitive total rewards benefits package
  • Health and dental benefits starting on day one
  • Company matched pension plan
  • Four weeks of vacation plus five personal days
  • Strong training and development programs
  • Access to educational assistance and tuition reimbursement
  • Gender affirmation benefits and fertility services coverage
  • Significant discounts on Nestlé products and company store access
Full Job Description
Position Snapshot
Business areas: Nestlé Canada
Job title: Account Manager (Premium Waters, Sobeys)
Location: Brampton, Ontario; located at 9050 Airport Rd, Brampton, ON L6S 6G9
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What to Expect:
We are looking for a results-oriented Account Manager to join our Nestlé Sales office in Brampton, Ontario. This position is pivotal in driving sales profitability and ensuring the effective execution of Nestlé Canada's marketing and sales initiatives. The Account Manager will play a crucial role in enhancing customer relationships and achieving sales targets, contributing to the overall success of Nestlé Canada. This position is an existing vacancy.

A day in the life:
As an Account Manager you will be responsible to develop and achieve the sales business plan for the assigned categories by implementing the strategy, managing total trade spend by category and achieving shelf, distribution, and promotional targets.

You will also:
• Analyze, identify, monitor, and address specific issues to achieve Nestlé's goals for sales, commercial spend, share, distribution, and operating budgets.
• Effectively manage internal and external relationships, meeting the agreed level of customer contact with Category Managers, Merchants, and Assistants, as well as CDT members, Demand Supply Planning (DSP), Retail Sales, Category Sales Development and Shared Services.
• Ensure activation of targeted Category Roadmap & Sales Playbook initiatives within the Customer Category Plan(s).
• Participate in and support the development of the Joint Value Creation (JVC) and provides input / feedback to support development of Integrated Commercial Plans (ICP).
• Develop/customize Category Plan based sales presentations; leverage the Category Roadmaps to customize for their customer and make it relevant and applicable to their situation.
• Enter all relevant customer, category promotion plans into the Customer Management Tool (ASP tool, and/or any other planning tool) in a timely manner to enable demand planners with their forecasting responsibilities.
• Effectively manage commercial spend to achieve sales volume goals, trade spend goals and customer contribution, including administration, record keeping, tracking and follow-up.

Role Requirements
As the successful candidate, you will be the champion for the brands throughout the organisation so you will need to be passionate, tenacious, results focused and really enjoy working in a highly energetic and exciting environment.

You will also have:
• 3+ years of experience as an Account Manager, with a proven track record of delivering business results
• Proficiency in working with Nielsen data is essential
• Experience managing trade spend is an asset
• Post secondary education in a Business-Related discipline.
• Proficient computer literacy: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Copilot and Power BI is an asset.
• Effective communication, negotiation and strong leadership skills are required to express analytics and deliver presentations to various levels within the organization and externally to customers.
• Proficient in gathering data and storytelling to deliver actionable insights.
• Outstanding organizational skills, effective time management, exceptional prioritization abilities, proficient in project management, with a keen eye for detail
• Excellent leadership abilities, fostering collaboration and strong interpersonal skills
• Strong self-motivation and proactive mindset, with the capacity to think strategically to secure incremental business opportunities.

Benefits
At Nestlé Canada, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation and job posting practices. This position offers a competitive salary within the range specified below, aligned with our commitment to equitable pay practices.
• Compensation Range: $80,000.00 CAD to $100,000.00 CAD
• Bonus eligibility
• Vehicle Eligibility
• Comprehensive total rewards benefits package including Health and Dental benefits that start on day one of employment
• Company matched pension plan
• Four weeks of Vacation and five personal days (Personal Paid Holidays)
• Excellent training and development programs as well as opportunities to grow within the company
• Access to Educational Assistance & Tuition Reimbursement
• Gender affirmation benefits to ensure access to necessary care, resources, and coverage for gender-affirming procedures
• Fertility Services and Surrogacy Medical Coverage to support the pursuit of a path to parenthood regardless of medical conditions, gender or sexual orientation
• Adoption benefits to remove some of the financial barriers associated with adoption
• Up to 50% off - Nespresso Coffee Machine, Capsules and accessories
• Access to the Discount Company store with Nestlé, Nespresso, and Purina products (Located across various Nestle offices/sites)

What you need to know
We will be considering applicants as they apply, so please don't delay in submitting your application.

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