National Account Manager

New York, NY

Are you ready to help us invent the future? As a National Account Manager in Sales at BIC, you’ll shape BIC’s corporate reputation at CVS and Rite Aid. You’ll be responsible for developing innovative strategies, owning our corporate direction in the Drug Channel, building lasting, impactful relationships with your retailers, and driving for results across our total product portfolio! We’re looking for a data-driven, results-oriented, relationship-centric powerhouse for this critical central role in our National Sales Team.

You’ll bring BIC to life; making an impact by creating, relaying, and articulating mutually beneficial strategies that benefit both BIC and our retailers, driving growth for both and creating channel-specific product offerings that surprise and delight consumers at retail. We bring joy & simplicity to everyday life – and we need you to help share that story.

What You’ll Do:

Provide data-driven category advisorship to our key retailer partners, providing consumer and market-driven insights to impact assortment, planograms, and off-shelf activations
Create mutually beneficial strategies that support BIC’s short- & long-term priorities, while also driving growth and profitability for our retailer partners
Managing and driving a profitable P&L to enhance the Drug Channel’s total profitability within the organization
Analyzing direct retailer-provided, syndicated, and panel data to build compelling selling stories to gain and maintain retail placements & POG awards
Build and leverage internal and external relationships with key decision-makers and stakeholders in order to drive and execute vision & strategy
Leveraging retail and market analytics to provide ongoing forecasts across all business units to effectively communicate supply needs
Demonstrate thought-leadership, and strategic thinking to senior leadership to drive engagement for your accounts
Actively participate and add value to the Drug Channel team, to enhance the team’s structure and purpose
Negotiate business needs both internally and externally driving mutually beneficial contractual agreements and everyday business needs
Demonstrate a drive to keep the business moving forward with exceptional follow-up and collaborative skills & attitude

Projects You’ll Work On:

Category line reviews & product proposals to gain incremental placements for BIC
Seasonal & off-shelf program creation and execution across multiple categories
Relationship building with key retail stakeholders to drive profitable growth
Long-term Horizon Strategy Planning to provide longtail growth for BIC in the drug channel
Creation of promotional planning across all categories to enhance awareness and drive purchase intent
Budget ownership, working within retailer-specific operational budgets to drive both topline growth & overall profitability for the business
Short & long-Term forecasting to ensure on-time, in-full supply to our retail partners
Strategic & joint business planning with high level leadership both internally & with our retail partners
Ongoing negotiation with key decision makers to drive long-term strategy
Supporting management (both direct and senior) to elevate and execute national initiatives

Qualifications

You have a Bachelor’s degree (required)
You have 3-5+ years’ experience working in sales or account management (required); CPG experience is preferred
You can: Develop highly strategic solutions. Work with precision, details, and process. Confidently advise senior managers & work with minimal oversight
You have the experience in using retailer-provided and syndicated data (required), with an analytical background
You’d describe yourself as: An expert in building & maintaining relationships, a strategic thinker, a results-oriented salesperson, a creative and inventive problem-solver, and a self-motivated owner and decision maker
Experience working with the Microsoft Office suite of products
Advanced Excel skills are a must (including pivot tables)
Experience building and managing budgets, P&Ls, and multi-item forecasts is preferred
You are an effective, engaged, & concise communicator
You have a desire to join and fast-paced, results-driven team

BIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly commit to hiring people with different backgrounds and experiences to help us build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our customers. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status, or similar characteristics. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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