About this Position
We’re looking for a driven B2B Key Account Manager to join our Consumer Adhesives team in the UK. In this role, you’ll work with leading brands, including Loctite, Pritt and Sellotape, helping people bring their ideas to life, while building strong partnerships and driving growth with our key customers.
This is a field-based role that will involve regular travel to our headquarters in Hemel Hempstead as well as to customer sites.
What you´ll do
- Drive & surpass channel net sales and profitability targets, in line with budget and strategic guidelines.
- Produce annual strategic channel plan in alignment with the overall commercial strategy - with clear objectives, goals, strategy and measures.
- Secure buy in from senior management and the wider teams, including marketing and finance, to the strategy translating into specific account plans that maximise the opportunites and minimise risks.
- Lead & collaborate in the execution of ambitious trading plans with customers, including optimising ranges in Catalogues & Online & maximising communication & promotion visibility in all accounts.
- Conduct annual negotiations with customers to deliver the required profitable business growth and internal stretch plan.
- Establish and develop strong, influential and sustainable relationships at a senior and multi levels in key customers to support growth plans and initiatives.
- Develop strong understanding of sector dynamics, end user insights and trends to influence & guide internal Marketing strategy and execution for the Channel
- To ensure monthly & rolling annual forecast are robust and accurate.
- Become an ‘expert’ for the channel, accounts and the categories we operate in.
- Work closely with internal stakeholders including Marketing, Category Management, Business Planning & Supply Chain to provide market-leading solutions to our customers.
- Live and breathe our purpose ‘For Those Who Make It Happen‘ - as a senior example to the wider team, with the strength and commitment to hold yourself and colleagues to account against them.
