Customer Development Director

Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc.

$100K — $130K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required; 4 years experience in related field
  • 5-7 years of relevant work experience preferred
  • Strong negotiation and persuasion skills essential
  • Advanced analytical and critical thinking abilities required
  • Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
  • Ability to collaborate cross-functionally across departments
  • Proficient in MS Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain strategic partnerships to achieve business plans
  • Lead cross-functional relationships to align strategic objectives
  • Coach field operations on customer sales strategies and best practices
  • Create and update sales correspondence for operational effectiveness
  • Sustain relationships with key business partners to drive growth
  • Collaborate with Revenue Generation to report business results
  • Analyze data for opportunities and implement corrective tactics
  • Execute sales programs and review effectiveness post-implementation

Benefits

  • Work in a collaborative and engaging office environment
  • Establish partnerships with diverse external business players
  • Opportunities for professional development and training
  • Access to innovative sales strategies and best practices
  • Engage with senior leadership teams and influence strategy
Full Job Description
Requisition ID: 259461

Locations: Cincinnati; Dayton

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Job Overview

The Customer Development Director possesses a deep knowledge of the retailer, the competition, and the marketplace. This position will serve as the "go-to" person by the retailer's leadership team for best practices, innovation, and engagement while maintaining a bias for growth by driving sales and constantly exploring additional opportunities for incremental revenue and margin results. The Customer Development Director is deeply connected with CCCI's field operations and leadership teams to ensure that business plans are efficiently executed as agreed upon.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Develop, negotiate, and maintain a strategic partnership status with the customer to ensure joint business plans are achieved
  • Establish and lead cross-functional relationships with field operations, product supply, marketing, and revenue generation management to ensure alignment to respective strategic objectives
  • Coach, teach, and train (instructs) the field operations teams on alignment to customers sales plans, best practices, and expectations
  • Create, maintain, and update critical sales correspondence to ensure the operations teams have the most up to date execution plans for assigned customer
  • Cultivate, sustain and maintain ongoing relationships and attends meetings, as needed with key external business partners (NRS, brand, bottler, and other relevant partners) to drive incremental growth to objectives
  • Collaborate with Revenue Generation colleague to compile and report key business results to CCCI's Sr. Leadership team
  • Analyze data to determine opportunities and implement tactics to reverse or sustain trends
  • Develop and execute sales programs and conduct post-analysis reviews, to gain an understanding of the effectiveness
  • Make adjustments as needed to sustain or reverse trends


Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

  • Advanced ability to develop, negotiate and execute complex and strategic joint business plans with the assigned customer
  • Strong ability to quickly bond and rapport to achieve a strategic partnership status throughout customers organization
  • Must have strong negotiation and persuasion skills
  • Responsive customer service skills with a proactive mindset
  • Strong organizational management skills required with the ability to collaborate with all facets of the business including field operations, marketing, product supply, revenue generation management, and the National Retail Sales Team
  • Ability to partner cross-functionally with other department leaders to accomplish goals and objectives
  • Advanced analytical and critical thinking skills preferred
  • Excellent organizational, time management, attention to detail, and team-building skills are required
  • Ability to work independently
  • Strong leadership, coaching, and presentation abilities
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills required
  • Ability to prioritize multiple assignments with time-sensitive and critical deadlines
  • Continuous improvement mindset
  • Adept in handling ambiguity
  • Computer proficiency in MS Office particularly MS Excel and MS PowerPoint


Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree four (4) years
  • Knowledge acquired through five (5) to seven (7) years of relevant work experience


Preferred Qualifications

Bachelors in Business Administration, Marketing, Communications, Liberal Arts, Sociology, or Psychology

Work Environment

Office Environment

The ideal candidate will live in the Cincinnati, Louisville or Dayton markets.

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