National Account Director - Beverages

National Account Director-Beverages (Pan India Role)

Location : Bangalore

- The National Account Director is in charge of developing the business with all Chain Customers, National as well as large Regional formats.

- The National Account Director will work closely with the National Accounts Team to achieve volume targets and other strategic objectives (NPD ranging, schematics, promo calendar, cooler placements ). They will be responsible for the development of the Plans, the negotiation with the Customers and the implementation of those Plans at store level (efficient communication with sales force, tracking, ROI analysis)

Essential Job Functions:

- Demonstrates a passion for understanding practices, trends and technology affecting the business, industry and marketplace.

- Leverage understanding of key business drivers, such as customers, consumers, competitors, and company, to get results.

- Demonstrates an understanding of issues relevant to the broad organization.

- Manager account communication on promotions and execution opportunities to the frontline.

- Maintains customer focus to proactively identify opportunities to improve service to the customer, quickly and effectively responds to customer problems, partners with other functions/department to meet customer needs.

- Anticipates how business plans and actions will impact both organization and the customer financially.

- Takes action to proactively resolve issues and identify improvement

- Makes sound trade-offs of time, effort and resources to effectively manage multiple demands.

- Summarizes and disseminates information in a timely manner with appropriate frequency.

- Ensure information reaches all parties who require information to avoid unnecessary surprises

Position Requirements:

- 5 years of sales experience in a retail, broker and distributor sales environment

- Bachelor's Degree/PG or equivalent work experience, preferably in Business, Marketing or Finance

- Demonstrated track record of sales management achievement

- Proven knowledge of broker, distributor and retail customers

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Establish relationships and credibility with customers and brokers; ability to collaborate at all levels

- Excellent at managing time, priorities and expenses

- Able to work independently while being a team player

- Proficiency using Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

- Experience with forecasting, Nielsen/IRI, POS and Inventory reports

- Flexibility to travel as needed