Bimbo Bakeries USA Hiring for Customers Manager at United States Full Time

Employment Type: Regular

Location: HORSHAM,PA

Have you ever enjoyed Arnold®, Brownberry® or Oroweat® bread? A Thomas’® English muffin or bagel? Or perhaps snacked on a Sara Lee®, Entenmann’s® or Marinela® cake or donut? If the answer is yes, then you know Bimbo Bakeries USA!

Description

“The position is able to sit remotely in the Northeast”

Position Summary

The Manager Customers is responsible for the dollar sales and profitable volume growth and winning category market share for BBU brands within the market areas for this customer. This position is also responsible for working closely with BBU Sales Ops to execute programming and service standards commensurate to gaining share of category.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Develops customer relationships at appropriate levels (MM & RVP) to strengthen other BBU brand positions in all distribution markets and position BBU as strategic partners.
• Establishes and maintains trusted counsel partnership with BBU Sales Op Directors to deliver this customer’s sales execution/service goals.
• Leverages Customer Relationships towards large scale display execution
• Recommends, tests, and directs new merchandising improvements aimed at improving sales and in-store image.
• Seeks out and initiates business-building opportunities utilizing all available resources.
• Develops, pursues, and accomplishes space improvement goals for BBU brands, based on space to sales, with the customer’s timing.
• Maintains and regularly updates analyses of critical competitors’ activities within customers’ key markets and their impact. (Provides market-level intelligence on regular frequency)
• Works directly with Walmart/Sam’s Selling Team (Sales/Category/Planner/Shopper) to ensure alignment of programming and focus that builds BBU Brand’s chare of category
• Enlist and Participate with Bimbo Bakeries and Corporate Social Responsibility functions
• Learn and educate BBU DSD teams specific to the continuing advancement of various e-commerce programs.
• Lead modular integrity execution through DSD partnerships (Including Reset Coordination)

Position Requirements

Essential Behavioral Competencies:

• Ability to establish and maintain trusted professional relationships. (Internal/External)
• Understands and can speak the language of category management.
• Ability to navigate software via handheld tablet.
• Ability to achieve specific objectives/outcomes and set/meet key initiatives.
• Ability to effectively construct and implement programs and to deliver projected results.
• Ability to collaborate and align cross-functionally within BU and with corporate.

Education And Work History

Bachelor’s Degree in Sales, Marketing or Business-related field preferred. A combination of education, training and experience that results in demonstrated competency to perform the work may be substituted.

The Ideal Candidate Will Possess

• Minimum of 5 years in Sales Management, marketing or selling experience.
• Knowledge of IRI data and the ability to analyze data.
• Strong interactive and communication skills.
• Computer skills and proficiency, specifically PowerPoint, Excel, and Word, are required and proficiency with Margin Minder.
• Travel is required – > 50%.

Physical Demands

The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be requested to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Able to use a variety of communication methods on frequent basis.
• Use a notebook computer and standard office equipment printers, fax, phone etc.
• Able to sit, stand, stoop and have use of hand motor coordination regularly.
• Use various forms of transportation for extended periods of time on periodic basis.

The physical and mental demands described in each job posting are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of each job. Reasonable accommodations may be requested to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of each job.

Bimbo Bakeries USA is an equal opportunity employer with a policy that provides equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, any other classification protected by law.