A part of Colgate-Palmolive since 1976, Hill's Pet Nutrition offers the highest-quality pet nutrition available through product lines Prescription Diet and Science Diet. Veterinarians worldwide recommend and feed their own pets Hill's products more than any other brand of pet food.
Available in approximately 80 countries around the world, our extensive line of products includes more than 60 Prescription Diet brand pet foods and more than 50 Science Diet brand pet foods.
We believe all animals should be loved and cared for during their lifetimes. That is why we are proud our pet foods can make a difference in your pet's life.
A career at Hill's Pet Nutrition or Colgate-Palmolive is an excellent opportunity if you seek a global experience, constant challenge, and development opportunities in an environment that respects work/life effectiveness.
Job Title: Business Development Manager (Monterrey)Travel Required?: Travel - 50% of time
Hybrid
No Relocation Assistance Offered
Job Number#163977 - Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
About The RoleAs Business Development Manager (Monterrey), you will be the primary influencer of the strategy to grow sales, increase market share, and improve services with the Distributors. You will ensure engagement with our customers and establish positive relationships with key accounts personnel to influence support of our strategic goals. Strong leadership, a clear understanding of their business, and foresight is required to engage customers with key plans. Lead, coach and supervise your direct reports to ensure the performance and compliance of our goals and strategies. Keep seeking new opportunities to extend our customer base according to our distribution policies.
Lead the preparation, negotiation, and implementation of JBP's, marketing and promotional campaigns to drive demand. Supervise, forecast, develop and ensure implementation of customer-specific plans to achieve our commercial goals of net sales, share, margin, within budget spend. Visit stores digitally to better understand implementation challenges to optimize future approaches. Share findings, insights, and recommendations with the extended commercial team.
Main Responsibilities:Formulate strategic plans to ensure maximum volume, profitability, and customer service.Responsibility for the combined efforts of direct reports and agency personnel at all accounts to deliver sales goals on volume, spending, and retail execution.Conduct detailed analysis of business trends in each account to include brand share, pricing, promotion levels, and trade class development.Stimulate a team approach across all functional areas involved in developing key customers' business such as Marketing, IBE, CS&L, regulatory, finance, and PVA.Responsible for achieving a successful strategy in the 6P+A execution.Recruit, train and develop team personnel so that each individual performs at their highest potential.Build and manage relationships with key players and the customers at the regional/store level.Develop customer investment strategy, consistent with Retail Environment strategy, brand strategy, and Shopper Insights.Coordinate the execution of 5P strategy implementation within established commercial guidelines.Supervise & carry out the administrative work of the account which includes: request for credit notes, rebates, or support for them, monitoring and maintenance of the current account.Guarantee compliance with the GTN & Financial policies established by the company.Basic Qualifications:Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in industrial engineering, business administration, international trade or related fields.At least +3 years in the commercial area managing distributors or any customer.At least +2 years of field sales experience.At least +3 years leading projects/tasks with cross-functional teams such as marketing, CS&L, Retail Mkt, and technical areas.80% of English language both written and spoken.Excel/Sheets Proficiency.DOMO intermediate skills or willingness to learn quickly.*Availability to travel up to 50% of the time Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Achieving our purpose starts with our people — ensuring our workforce represents the people and communities we serve — and creating an environment where our people feel they belong; where we can be our authentic selves, feel treated with respect and have the support of leadership to impact the business in a meaningful way.
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