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About the role

  • Key Account Manager owning Walmart’s Canadian retail P&L for Freudenberg Household Products. Driving forecasts, promotions, negotiations, and profitable growth.

Responsibilities

  • Manage sales, profitability, market share, trade investment, and execution for assigned strategic retail accounts, owning the full P&L
  • Build and maintain customer relationships as the primary day-to-day contact for assigned accounts
  • Develop and execute customer plans and Joint Business Plans
  • Identify and pursue growth opportunities across retail and e-commerce
  • Lead pricing, promotion, merchandising, distribution, and trade investment negotiations
  • Develop and maintain customer forecasts and demand plans
  • Monitor customer inventory, order patterns, pricing, competitive activity, and replenishment trends
  • Analyze sales, POS, market, inventory, replenishment, promotional, and financial data
  • Own annual trade and promotional plans and optimize investments for ROI and profitability
  • Conduct customer and internal business reviews with insights, implications, and recommendations
  • Partner with Marketing, Trade Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, Customer Service, and brokers on launches, promotions, commitments, and growth initiatives

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Commerce, or a related field preferred
  • Home office located in or near Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
  • Ability to travel to Walmart approximately twice per month
  • Other travel as business needs require within Canada and the United States
  • 2+ years of experience in Key Account Management, Sales, Category Management, Customer Business Development, or related CPG commercial roles
  • Proven success managing major retail accounts, preferably Walmart
  • Experience working with national and/or global accounts and cross-functional internal teams preferred
  • Understanding of customer environments, categories, routes-to-market, competitive landscapes, and retailer operating models
  • Experience managing forecasting, trade investment, customer negotiations, promotional planning, and customer business reviews
  • Advanced Excel proficiency
  • Familiarity with Luminate/Scintilla, Retail Link, Costco Vendor Portal, NielsenIQ, Circana, and PAWA
  • Excellent negotiation, communication, relationship-management, and influencing skills
  • Strong analytical and financial acumen
  • Ability to interpret sales, POS, market, inventory, promotional, and P&L data
  • Ability to manage a customer P&L
  • Critical, analytical, strategic, and creative thinking
  • Highly organized, results-driven, self-motivated, and able to manage multiple priorities with urgency and accountability

Benefits

  • Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion
  • Compensation determined by qualifications, experience, education, and alignment with role responsibilities

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

JuniorMid level

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

HybridMississaugaCanada

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