DACH Retail Controller

Job Description

Hey there, we’re Wild. We’re on a mission to remove single-use plastic from the bathroom and redefine the future of personal care across Europe and beyond. We’re a high-growth, venture-backed start-up, launching our refillable deodorant on WeAreWild.com in 2020 - we’re also one of Europe’s fastest growing start-ups. Sounds fun, right?

We’re now looking for a DACH Region Account Manager (this is our second biggest market outside the UK, and our fastest growing!)

Ready to become a Wild thing?

📓Some of your daily responsibilities:

• Management of our key accounts in the DACH region
• P&L responsibility for accounts managed
• Building and executing profitable value and volume adding trade plans
• Landing best in class in store activation and promotions to attract and retain customers
• Forecasting by product for your accounts
• Working closely with shopper marketing to deliver strong return on investment
• Detailed data analysis with outputs informing optimised commercial decision making
• Travel to DACH markets for meetings, networking & store visits

🚀 What we need from you:

Essential:

• Fluent in German and English
• German retail account management experience
• Excellent relationship management and communication
• Deep understanding of the German retail market
• Strong commercial acumen
• Negotiation experience/training
• Strong forecasting skills
• Confident presentation skill-set
• Excellent numeracy
• High Excel/Google sheet competency

Desirable:

• DM/Rossman account management experience
• Export management experience

🙌What you’ll get from us:

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Hybrid working, 3 days a week in our shiny new London office
• Weekly early finishes and social events
• Mental wellbeing support through Spill
• A role at a young but well-established brand making a considerable splash in sustainable self-care

We have a really simple approach to DEI, and that is that we embrace and celebrate everyone. Our company culture is all about bringing your most authentic self to work - I mean, how else could we drive innovation? Each and every single one of our employees have have huge input into who Wild is, and where we’re going to go in the future, and we literally couldn’t do this without having a team of individuals from all areas of the world, ethnicities, genders, beliefs, socioeconomic backgrounds and more. We’re always looking to grow our team by hiring people with fresh perspectives and ideas!