Position: Manager Chain Accounts

Reports To: Senior Director Chain Accounts

Department: Regional Sales

Location: Chicago, IL

About Us

HEINEKEN USA Inc., the nation's leading high-end beer importer, is a subsidiary of HEINEKEN International N.V., the world's most international brewer. Key brands imported into the U.S. are Heineken® – the world's most international beer brand, Heineken® 0.0 – an alcohol-free beer innovation, Heineken® Silver – a new lower-carb, lower-cal beer, the Dos Equis Franchise, and the Tecate Franchise. HEINEKEN USA also imports Amstel Light, Red Stripe, Strongbow Hard Apple Ciders, Bohemia and more. For news and updates, follow us on Twitter @HeinekenUSACorp, or visit HEINEKENUSA.com

Who We Are

At HEINEKEN USA, we’re a team with a passion to bring our iconic brands to the next level. The work is challenging, we learn from our experiences (even our mistakes), and we love what we do. You’ll be empowered to think differently, try new things, and GO PLACES.

About the Role:

The Chain Account Manager leads the sales and execution efforts for chain customer programs and promotions within an assigned geography and/or channel type. This role will build relationships and influence within customer organizations, distributors and internal Regions/Zones to drive attainment of HUSA objectives while supporting our chain customer’s strategic goals. The Chain Account Manager must be skilled in uncovering insights/opportunity and relating our brand solutions and value. Communication and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders are critical to driving business success for this role.

Key Responsibilities:

Administration

• Pricing management, submission and communication across multiple zones and multiple stakeholders.

• Financial acumen in building and balancing of budgets, checkbooks, POs.

• Manage inventory proactively through constant communication and follow through with operations, retailer, and distributors. The ability to collaboratively build solutions for key packs and innovation with stakeholders is critical to success.

• Preparation and development of insight-based sales tools for planning, programming, and execution.

Communication

• Conduct Joint business planning and business reviews with retailers and distributors to effectively align and sell HUSA key priorities to drive overall business.

• Deliver “1-Sheet” insight and selling overview documents for the Active Campaign communication tool, distributor meetings and distributor sales rep alignment.

• Leverage category management insights and opportunities to build sales tools that will drive incremental programming and distribution for HUSA, distributors, and retailers.

Execution Management

• Develop and adjust chain call frequency to align with sales opportunities.

• Deliver business objectives within assigned customer base by building strong relationships and having a solid understanding of the customers goals and strategies.

• Utilize space planning and validation of sets to ensure new item placement and sustainability of SKUs.

• Establish scorecard, tracking and post promotion analysis to drive in market collaboration with HUSA sales team, distributors, and retailers to ensure effective execution on all initiatives.

Leadership

• Learning Agility. This person must transcend their role by striving for continuous improvement in skills and results.

• Coaching and developing internal and external salespeople to achieve HUSA business plan objectives.

• Lead communication and collaboration throughout multiple levels of all organizations involved to deliver business results. This requires a demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across internal partners, distributor partners and retail hierarchy.

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