Key Customer Manager Beauty - Personal Care

Job Title: Key Customer Manager Beauty - Personal Care
Location: Remote/Field (Greater Manila Area)

Modern Trade is a strategic department in Customer Development function. We ensure that Customer plans fit with channel/customer and shoppers’ needs in order to maximize benefit for Unilever and our customers.

The Key Account Manager develops and executes joint business plan with assigned customers. He/she is responsible for the achievement of turn over target, the P&L of the assigned categories and the engagement of Unilever cross-functions with such customer group.

Customer Strategy and Business Plan

• Develop relationship with customers.

• Work out a joint customer business plan for his/her respective customer. Lead and execute Joint Business Planning according to the global standards together with the customer.

• Work out a Target Group Management strategic plan for existing businesses.

• Develop and implement a promotional plan with clear roles

• Works in close collaboration with CSP Managers for the category input, and with customer marketing for the customer/channel plan.

• Closely work & monitor with Operation team to ensure the perfect execution in stores

• Develop in-store communication activation for channel/customer initiatives.

• Generate insights for the assigned customer/channels (store layout, traffic).

• In charge of in-store extra visibility/highlight display, not execution.

• Develop and guides implementation of customer events.

• Provide clear objectives and deliverables for the field team, under responsibility of Field Operation Team.

Negotiation

• Close the deal with the Customer by negotiating the trade terms, trade funding, and counterparts according to the UL strategy on his/her customers.

• Manage overall levels of Customer investments for his/her customers.

Play active ambassador role

• Act as active ambassador of Unilever at the customer and of the customer at Unilever.

• Participate actively to the account managers meetings, looking at the best solution for the business even if not in line for his/her customer.

Qualifications

• Open to fresh graduates up to 3 years of work experience

• Experience in key accounts or customer management is a plus

• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities

• Willing to do field work and travel as needed

• Highly organized with strong problem-solving skills

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