Job Description
A creative and persuasive Account Manager – Retail with
experience of retail channel(s) with a make it happen’ attitude,
entrepreneurial mindset, objective driven outlook and strong business ethics
are crucial. Liaise with cross functional business and technical teams to
achieve customer’s desired outcomes and draw on previous retail / FMCG
experience is key to the success of this role.
Here’s what you’ll bring to the
table:
For this role we are looking for an
Account Manager – Retail with extensive experience (approx. 5+ years)
experience.
- Marketing
and retail experience.
- Impeccable
communication and interpersonal skills together with the ability to
present and influence at all levels.
- Entrepreneurial
mindset.
- Highly
motivated and objective driven.
- Strong
business acumen and ethics.
- Comfortable
with a lean operating culture.
- Demonstrable
ability to manage multiple projects and accounts with differing
timelines. - Creating and owning
relationships across marketing and operations to solve customer business
issues. - Understanding
customer’s business objectives and management of high-level relationships. - Optimising existing
business by driving retail execution, initiating marketing activities and
communication.
Here’s what you’ll be doing - key
tasks and responsibilities:
- Account management responsibilities
include developing and managing strong relationships, connecting with key
business executives and stakeholders,
- Collaborate
cross-functionally to identify, develop, and manage to execution both
follow on and new business opportunities across the portfolios.
- Grow client accounts
and be their ambassador internally to ensure success is delivered on every
project.
- Liaise with and manage
key client relationships while building a wider network of contacts.
- Plan, schedule and
oversee key client communication points.
- Manage and naturally
become the day to day communications hub for high value and importance
client communications.
- Understand and shape
an approach to better develop, diversify, and grow client accounts.
- Reliably able to
deliver information in all situations to customer and internal colleagues.
You’ll also be required to advance
the following
- Excellent stakeholder
management skills and the ability to interact with and influence customers
internally and externally.
- Able to communicate
with ease with all customers and able to listen, simplify complex matters
and at times.
- Ability to work to
strict deadlines whilst multi-tasking across multiple customer
requirements.
- Demonstrate excellent
analytical, planning, problem solving, presentation and organisational
skills.
- Excellent written and
verbal communication skills, ability to convey technical concepts to both
technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong interpersonal
skills: confident communications, active listening, objections prevention
and handling, conflicts management and prevention.
Additional
skills:
- Ability to balance priorities and work to tight deadlines.
- Ability to learn and understand products quickly.
- Methodical, highly organised, and accurate approach to work and
attention to detail.
- Ability to understand sector specific retail trends and knowledge or
interest of retail facing technology would be highly beneficial in
creating future solutions and opportunities with clients.
- Ability to build strong rapport, establish trust and credibility
through a consultative approach with diverse stakeholders from Executive
level down.
- Ability to maintain high levels of productivity, manage multiple
competing priorities, and work effectively under the pressure of time
constraints in a fast-paced, complex, collaborative, and team-oriented
environment.
- High proficiency in written & verbal communication skills.
- Experience with desk based and / or customer-facing activities and
influencing key decision makers.