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Key Account Manager - Walmart - Upper Respiratory and Vitamins-Minerals-Supplements

Reckitt

Reckitt

Sales & Business Development
Bentonville, AR, USA
Posted on Jan 14, 2025

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

​Sales​

Our Sales teams help to deliver Reckitt's purpose by building shared success with our customers, making access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment possible in-stores and online.

Within Sales, we're focused on achieving outperformance across all our channels, operating in highly competitive categories. This focus results in a dynamic, fast paced environment where cross functional teams are encouraged to collaborate to achieve success.

We have around 10,000 salespeople across the world, within market roles and ranging in areas like Field Sales, Key Accounts, Trade Marketing and Category Development.

About the role

The Reckitt Core Health Team has the purpose to “provide superior solutions, driving better patient outcomes” through our key brands in OTC/consumables (Mucinex, Delsym, and Airborne to name a few). As category leaders, our team will be critically focused on generating collective wins with Walmart through strategic partnership. We will embrace the founder mindset to drive accelerated growth by leveraging data-led solutions. The Key Account Manager for Health Upper Respiratory/Vitamins, Minerals, & Supplements on Walmart will be a crucial member of this team with a global CPG company. Playing a key leadership role on the Sales team, you will oversee the achievement of customer and channel plans by overseeing all aspects of best-in-class 4P execution in market. At Reckitt we embrace entrepreneurial spirit and those that want to help us make a difference in the community and with our key retail partners!

Your responsibilities

  • Develop and manage customer relationship with buyers; contribute to customer strategy ensuring mutual (Walmart and Reckitt) business objectives are achieved
  • Achieve / exceed all key sales measures and targets for the national account (ex: Net Revenue, Company Operating Profit, Net Working Capital and trade spend)
  • Work in close partnership with brand marketing to ensure development and implementation of customer category strategy and best-in-class 4P execution
  • Partner with Demand Planning to ensure customer service levels are met / exceeded
  • Work with Category Development Managers to develop plans to drive category / trade business plans; work with field sales to manage customer as key stakeholder
  • Manage customer negotiations in relation to Reckitt commercial strategy and customer’s trading terms
  • Overall Continuous Improvement - identifying opportunities for efficiency and profitability and overall improvement in the management of categories
  • Develop and lead advanced customer engagement strategy including joint business planning, innovation and day to day business

The experience we're looking for

  • Excellent competitive market and financial acumen
  • 4 year college degree preferred or equivalent management experience
  • 5-7 years related sales experience (preferred to have recent experience directly calling on Walmart)
  • Understanding of Luminate and experience leveraging to influence category growth solutions
  • Strong knowledge of sales function processes and cross-functional exposure to other Reckitt business operations
  • Excellent commercial and financial acumen
  • Strong knowledge of syndicated data and customer management process, as well as Microsoft Office
  • Excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills
  • Ability to travel required

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What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.

We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognize, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

US salary ranges

USD $138,000.00 - $208,000.00

US pay transparency

The base salary range for this role will vary based on experience in job and industry, training and education, skills relevant to the position, and other factors permitted by law. In addition to the base salary, the position is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, which is subject to change each year.

Reckitt offers eligible employees competitive benefits including medical, prescription, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; paid time off for vacation, sick, and Company recognized holidays; a 401(K) plan; generous paid parental leave; adoption and fertility support; tuition reimbursement; product discounts; and much more!

If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete your application, please contact NAtalentacquisition@reckitt.com. Reckitt is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.

Equality

We recognize that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; color, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.