National Account Manager
We are looking for an Account Manager to join our US Sales team and work with our Retail partners. Working across our portfolio of brands, you will manage customer communication with one of our Key Accounts, Walmart, and support growth in this area by driving sales for the business.
You'll use your experience in Account Management to partner closely with the retailer and deliver on budgeted sales, with a focus on relationship building, promotional analysis and managing trade and the P&L effectively. In addition, you will partner across the US sales team and other key areas of the business to work toward overall Company goals.
You’ll be someone who embraces Revolutions dynamic culture of executing with speed and quality while thriving in an entrepreneurial environment and being comfortable with collaboration across all parts of the business.
What you’ll do:
- Wholly manage the account including (but not limited to) timelines, retailer expectations, newness in coordination with global launches, sales, spend, and promotional cadence
- Build and maintain strong relationships with relevant business account
- Plan, develop and implement an annual Joint Business plan with the customer for each brand and category within the remit
- Coordinate with US marketing manager and collaborate with UK team on global launches, gaining 360 support campaign for launches to ensure best in class execution
- Coordinate with US marketing manager and collaborate with global content team to identify opportunities to increase retail sales, boost shipments and increase internal profitability
- In alignment with the Demand and Trade Marketing team, agree monthly marketing support packages, secondary site opportunities and online support.
- Identify appropriate NPD opportunities based on customer insights and oversee the end-to-end implementation from presenting to the buyer and agreeing forecasts, to tracking delivery, launch planning and implementation.
- Analyse EPOS Sales data and present at internal weekly meetings
- Review NPD and promotional activity to maximise learnings and share with the business
- Complete relevant promotional and new line form administration
- Negotiate promotions, cost prices and launches
- Agree all new listings with buyers
- Engage in the preparation and participation of status & business planning meetings both with the account and internal teams
- Create Gross and Net financial forecasts for the account and report performance weekly to VP of Sales, identifying upsides and proactively addressing any short falls
- Design and manage a Trade Investment plan to drive sales whilst maximising profitability
- Approve invoices and prepare accurate financial accruals
- Work collaboratively with Merchandising to align financial forecast to unit demand and proactively submit in line with the business-critical path
- Use the retailer stock systems to ensure consistency with internal data and monitor overstocks/possible returns
- Identify opportunities to increase retail sales, gross sales, optimise processes and increase efficiencies
- Responsible for being part of a team that achieves (and exceeds) sales targets, profit expectations, and customer objectives
What you’ll have:
- Proven experience in a similar role within the beauty industry or a similar environment
- Experience working with Walmart
- The ability to build strong relationships, both internally and externally
- The desire and ability to work collaboratively with colleagues in own and other teams, balanced with being individually accountable and responsible. Underpinned by the belief that this will allow Revolution Beauty to achieve superior results.
- Great influencing and negotiating skills
- An analytical mind and a creative approach to problem solving
- Strong Excel skills
- Having a consistently positive attitude to Revolution Beauty, its products and people, leading to passionate performance in the delivery of tasks and initiatives that support the brand ambitions.
- Constantly striving to achieve outstanding results
- The ability to take the right action at the right time to maximise business benefits. Challenge is always constructive and actions taken are always just and honest.
- Recognises and acknowledges achievements and efforts appropriately and intuitively whilst learning from own and other’s past experiences to ensure continuous improvement.
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Workplace & Culture
Revolution has become the success it is because of our amazing people. We are one team, we listen, learn and evolve together and we are continuously collaborating. We empower our people by creating an environment in which all of our ideas are heard and every single person contributes to and truly believes in Revolution. We are fast moving and quick to adapt, meaning our days are filled with excitement, passion and keeping our entrepreneurial spirit alive! We put wellbeing at the heart of everything we do, with initiatives running throughout the year and a dedicated team of Wellbeing Warriors on hand to support all our team members.
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About Revolution Beauty
We are on a mission to become the best beauty company in the world. Our people are a reflection of our customers, living our values and living with passion. In our world, we innovate, take ownership and fight for beauty that every person can enjoy. We believe that creating an environment where people are not constrained is essential to drive the behaviours that make a Revolution.
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