at The Kraft Heinz Foods Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
About Us
The Kraft Heinz Company is one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world, with eight $1 billion+ brands and global sales of approximately $25 billion. We're a globally trusted producer of high-quality, great-tasting, and nutritious foods for over 150 years. Our brands are truly global, with products produced and marketed in over 40 countries. These beloved products include condiments and sauces, cheese and dairy, meals, meats, refreshment beverages, coffee, infant and nutrition products, and numerous other grocery products in a portfolio of more than 200 legacy and emerging brands.
No matter the brand, we're united under one vision:To sustainably grow by delighting more consumers globally. Bringing this vision to life is our team of 39,000+ food lovers, creative thinkers, and high performers worldwide. Together, we help provide meals to those in need through our global partnership with Rise Against Hunger. We also stand committed to responsible, sustainable practices that extend to every facet of our business, our consumers, and our communities. Every day, we're transforming the food industry with bold thinking and unprecedented results. If you share our passion - and are ready to create the future, build a legacy, and lead as a global citizen - there's only one thing to do: join our table and let's make life delicious!
Our Culture of Ownership, Meritocracy & Collaboration
We're not afraid to think differently. Embrace new ideas. Dream big. We empower our people at every level - from entry-level intern to senior leader - to own their work. We share a responsibility to think like Owners - to be mindful of the collective and sustained success of Kraft Heinz - which we apply to every situation, every day. As part of Kraft Heinz, you're supported to grow and achieve. You're expected to bring your authentic self to work every day, to lead with humility, and drive outstanding performance at every level - and you'll be rewarded. You're given opportunities to leave a mark and build a legacy. But you won't do it alone. You're supported by passionate teammates along the way, and our collective, collaborative spirit fuels our incredible progress.
Job Description
We are looking for an insights-driven, proactive, and motivated talent to join our team as an Associate Customer Sales Manager (Associate CSM)! The Associate Customer Sales Manager is an internal sales position that provides business insights and volume growing recommendations through category research to Customer Business Teams (CBT) for our Military business on the retail side. The Associate CSM ensures that customer, consumer, and internal information are used to build knowledge and insights that can be used to improve overall performance and results.
Reporting to the Associate Director for our Military business, this position will identify & address new and existing business opportunities for our business teams. If you seek to grow to your full potential, this is an incredible opportunity to support this growing space, liaise across multiple teams, and grow our beloved brands!
Primary Responsibilities:
Steer key insights and business recommendations on the key sales controllable of distribution and assortment, pricing, and promotion, partnering with the category management team to add value
Liaise & coordinate information-training activities cross-functionally, collaborating with Sales & Finance for routines
Provide customer-facing support on an ad-hoc basis as needed by the business
Partner with the Sales team to collaborate and prepare the strategy for external meetings
Ensure that the customer, consumer, and category insights are delivered successfully through weekly, month, quarterly, etc routines. Conducts annual category reviews and periodic assessments
Develop & build impactful customer-specific selling stories that reflect key category business-building initiatives.
Minimum Qualifications:
Proven experience in an analytical setting, owning the utilizing of data for a sales team for a public CPG organization
Strong sales background with demonstrated knowledge of retail business processes and Category Management
Clear skillsets within syndicated & household panel data, such as IRI and internal systems
Tested communication skills (written, verbal,... For full info follow application link.
It is the continuing policy of The Kraft Heinz Company to afford full equal employment opportunity to qualified employees and applicants, regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental handicaps, military or veteran status, sexual preference, or any other protected condition or characteristic in conformity with all applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws and regulations.
Final candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without Company sponsorship. Exceptions requesting work visa sponsorship will be reviewed on a case to case basis.
