Junior Key Account Manager needed at Kimberly-Clark

Job Description

• You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. 
• In this role, you will be accountable for the subset of sales KPI’s and input into the overall P&L health of the reference customer/customer groupings delivered through:
• Regional/National customer relationships and a buyer and head buyer level.
• Commercial selling executed as per the NAM strategy.
• Sales, Profit, DPSM and innovation targets.
• RGM/NRR and GTN executional plan aligned to the national account strategy.

About You

• You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.
• You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• 5 years + customer / key account / sales exposure: ideally with experience within FMCG.
• Multiple Channel/customer experience.
• Finance sales experience (working knowledge of customer P&L’s) (promotional budgets, trade budgets).
• Experience managing/engaging senior stakeholders and cross functional teams.
• Matric required with degree beneficial.