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About the role

  • Key Account Manager owning Loblaw and Shoppers Drug Mart commercial strategy. Driving profitable CPG sales through customer planning, trade investment, distribution, and execution.

Responsibilities

  • Own the Loblaw and SDM customer business plans and annual JBP
  • Build strong relationships with merchants, category directors, and key customer stakeholders in Supply Chain
  • Deliver sales, gross profit, and distribution targets
  • Develop customer-specific strategies across pricing, promotion, assortment, distribution, and velocity
  • Lead annual and promotional planning while managing trade investment for strong ROI
  • Identify new listing, distribution, and category growth opportunities
  • Analyze customer performance and turn insights into actions
  • Lead customer presentations, negotiations, and business reviews
  • Partner with Marketing on customer-specific brand and activation plans
  • Provide commercial assumptions and customer inputs to Demand Planning/Operations and flag supply or inventory risks
  • Coordinate with Finance, Operations, Demand Planning, Marketing, Customer Service, and Regulatory to deliver customer commitments
  • Own resolution of customer issues and ensure timely internal follow-through
  • Track KPIs including net sales, gross profit/margin, distribution, velocity, listings, trade spend, promotional ROI, forecast/input accuracy, JBP delivery, service level, and issue resolution

Requirements

  • 5+ years CPG/retail account management experience
  • Experience managing major Canadian retailers; Loblaw/SDM experience strongly preferred
  • Strong commercial, analytical and negotiation skills
  • Experience managing customer P&Ls, trade investment and promotional programs
  • Ability to build senior customer relationships and influence cross-functionally
  • Strategic thinker who is equally strong at execution
  • Highly accountable, proactive and results oriented

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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