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Mars UK • CHN-Shanghai-Shanghai | CHN-Guangdong-Guangzhou | China

Customer Development Manager

Employment type:  Full time
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Job Description

Job Description:

As a channel owner to design channel 360 solution to drive channel shift and channel growth.

Leading channel solution with close collaboration with cross functions and filed sales team.

Drive channel breakthrough consumer activation

What are we looking for?

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or equivalent.
  • 5+ Years’ experience in Sales, Marketing, for Fast Moving Consumer Good Industries
  • Prior Retail Account Management experience
  • Fluent understanding of forecasting, Nielsen and trade management system
  • Availability to travel 10% of time
  • A valid driver's license and clean driving record

What will be your key responsibilities?

  • Develop medium to long term business strategy to protect, deliver sustainable activation of Sam's Club/Costco/CVS/Hyper
  • Defines ambition, set deployment targets and design JBP’s for all key customer's according to company business goal
  • Coordinates and participate with his/her team in the yearly customer negotiations
  • Work together with the ded planning and relative customer MKT team to plan the forecast and define building block
  • Follows target and put in place action plan
  • Delivers the annual plan agreed ensuring the achievement of financial KPIs for his/her scope
  • Proactively seeks new opportunities for business development
  • Team engagement - develop a high-engaging and capable KA team and build up talent pipeline.

What can you expect from Mars?

  • Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
  • Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
  • Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
  • An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay
Enhanced paternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay
24 days annual leave + bank holidays
“Pawternity” leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Bank holiday swaps
Shared parental leave
Adoption leave
Family health insurance
Pregnancy support
Neo-natal leave
Faith rooms
Meditation space
Dog friendly office
Dog friendly co-working space
Annual bonus
Employee discounts
Cinema discounts
Referral bonus
Joining bonus
Cycle to work scheme
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Theme park discounts
Lunch and learns
In house training
LinkedIn learning license
Studying sabbaticals
Open to part time work for some roles

Working at Mars UK

Company employees

4,000 In the UK

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