Modern Trade Accounts Specialist

Location - Mumbai Reporting to: CDM Role Purpose The Senior Modern Trade Accounts Specialist is responsible for driving sales growth and execution excellence across assigned modern trade accounts and territories.

The role plays a critical part in delivering business objectives by strengthening customer partnerships, maximizing in-store execution and ensuring superior availability and visibility of company products.

This position requires strong commercial acumen, ability to derive insights/actionable from data, customer relationship management skills and the ability to influence key stakeholders to achieve sustainable growth across assigned accounts.

Key Accountabilities - Deliver sales targets across assigned accounts and geographic territories. - Drive growth and maintain market share across key product categories within organized retail chains. - Manage customer service and sales operations to ensure achievement of agreed objectives and performance targets. - Ensure high standards of product availability, visibility, merchandising and overall shelf execution across all assigned stores. - Monitor and improve store execution metrics, including store compliance and execution quality measures. - Ensure effective implementation of point-of-sale materials, promotional activities, and in-store activation plans. - Leverage category insights to influence in-store execution and drive sales performance. - Drive speed-to-shelf execution for new product launches and ensure timely replenishment and repeat orders. - Ensure consistent and effective execution of consumer and trade promotions across assigned accounts. - Provide direction and support to third-party field teams to ensure effective execution and achievement of business objectives.

Skills and Experience The successful candidate will demonstrate: - Analytical skills and the ability to leverage data to identify opportunities and improve performance. - Strong sales and account management capabilities within modern trade or retail environments. - Proven ability to build and manage customer relationships across multiple stakeholders. - Strong execution focus with the ability to translate commercial plans into in-store outcomes. "All official offers from Unilever are issued only via our Applicant Tracking System (ATS).

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