Asahi Beverages

Key Account Manager

Asahi Beverages  •  Sydney, AU (Onsite)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

Your Impact

As a Key Account Manager, you will own and grow some of our most important retail partnerships across Key Independent Retail (KIR). You’ll be responsible for delivering profitable growth by building deep customer relationships, developing commercially strong account plans, and driving best-in-class execution across your portfolio. This is a highly strategic role where you’ll influence outcomes end-to-end, from planning through to execution, while shaping how we create value with our customers.

Key Accountabilities

  • Develop and deliver strategic account plans to achieve revenue, share and profitability targets across KIR & LMG
  • Lead the end-to-end execution of business plans, including promotions, pricing and activation activity
  • Partner with Field teams to drive consistent, high-quality in-store execution and compliance
  • Build and manage strong, long-term customer relationships, from head office through to store level
  • Monitor performance and use data and insights to optimise plans, improve profitability and drive growth
  • Lead customer reviews and negotiations, ensuring mutually beneficial commercial outcomes

About You

  • Proven experience in account management within FMCG or retail, ideally managing key or strategic customers
  • Strong commercial acumen with the ability to build account plans and deliver profitable growth
  • Confident working with data, financials and performance metrics to inform decisions
  • Skilled in negotiation and influencing, with the ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships
  • Demonstrated ability to execute plans through others and drive alignment across teams
  • Resilient, adaptable and able to thrive in a fast-paced, commercially focused environment
  • Ability to travel as required

Why Asahi Beverages?

Asahi Beverages is a leading beverage company in Australia and New Zealand, offering a diverse range of alcohol and non-alcohol products. With iconic brands such as Schweppes, Pepsi, Asahi Super Dry, and Peroni, our portfolio spans soft drinks, juices, craft beers, spirits, and more. Since its formation in 2014, the company has grown significantly, driven by innovation and a commitment to meeting evolving consumer needs. At Asahi Beverages, we prioritize collaboration, agility, and high performance, providing growth opportunities for individuals looking to advance their careers. Join us in shaping the future of the beverages category and contribute to our exciting journey.

Asahi Beverages

About Asahi Beverages

Asahi Beverages is one of the leading beverage companies in Australia and New Zealand, producing an extensive range of alcohol and non-alcohol beverages.

Our non-alcohol portfolio extends across soft drinks, mixers, mineral water, water, juice, tea, energy and sports drinks, with iconic and well-loved brands such as Schweppes, Cool Ridge and Pepsi.

Our alcohol portfolio includes both local craft and international beers such as Asahi Super Dry and Peroni, as well as cider, ready-to-drink and spirits brands.

Asahi Beverages formed in 2014 through the integration of the Schweppes Australia and Asahi Premium Beverages businesses in Australia and Independent Liquor in New Zealand. Our Group also includes The Better Drinks Co, a NZ based juice and organic soft drink business and craft brewer, Mountain Goat.

We work in a category with rapidly changing consumer wants and needs, which fuels our entrepreneurial spirit and our thirst for category-growing innovation. Our company has grown enormously over the past decade, and as we continue to evolve, we’re looking for people who thrive on collaborating, connection and building high performing teams and who are agile, adventurous and always willing to jump in and give it their all.

It’s an exciting time to join our company. We believe that with us, you’ll get the experiences you need to develop to the next stage of your career as together we build the Asahi Beverages and the beverages category of the future.

Keen to explore our current vacant positions? Visit our Careers Page:

https://www.asahi.com.au/careers/careers

Industry
Food & Beverage
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Southbank, AU
Year Founded
Unknown
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