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Job Summary & Responsibilities

The BAM is primarily responsible for customizing and implementing Hill's Retail Environment & brand strategies to grow market share and associate brand recommendation within the customer base. The BAM position develops and executes customer specific 6P plans to get to the Hill's commercial goals of net sales, share, margin, while spending within GTN guidelines. As a Business Account Manager for Hill's Pet Nutrition, you will assume headquarter customer management responsibilities for specific Neighborhood Pet Chains. The customer responsibilities will include customers such as Petland, Feeders Supply, Mounds, and Chuck and Dons and the position will be based from your home office in or near Cincinnati, Ohio. Will apply to new business trends, Hill's corporate strategies, customer strategies,

A BAM is responsible for establishing relationships at all levels at the customer via direct communication, business presentations and frequent interaction with the customer key contacts.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Develops, executes and supervises 6P plans versus the goal
• Drives 6P plans and responds to customer requests during regularly scheduled meetings with each customer (minimum (1) per month
• Updates Colgate Business Planner to reflect baseline sales and promotion plans. Leads customer payments
• Establishes and maintains working relationships with both the customer and internal commercial teams - Marketing, Supply Chain, and Store Operations
• Develops and maintains process and plan to analyze each customers' business. Reviews current business trends, shopper insights in plan development, and learning's from post analysis of executed activities into strategic 6P plan.
• Executes shopper programs with Hill's Shopper Marketing, demonstrating Hill's brand strategies to drive incremental retail sales
• To develop and execute customer specific annual strategic plan and initiatives to achieve the commercial goals. Engages customer on category growth expectations.
• Executes Hill's retail environment and brand strategy with Hill's BDM & Retail Marketing team
• Drives forward actions in monthly customer planning meetings to review actuals plus plan-to-go with manager, BDM & Finance

Basic Qualifications

• BS/BA degree or higher
• 3+ years of Field Sates experience calling on retail stores (or corporate sales experience)
• Proficient software skilled in Excel, Word, Power Point

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience handling key accounts/headquarter accounts

Encouraged Areas of Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Excellent business presentation ability and a skilled communicator
• Strong influence and negotiations skills for a winning pad with persistence, compromise, and respect
• Adept at finding common ground, identifying vital interests, and understanding the customer's underlying priorities
• Strong analytical skills to develop 6P recommendations that result in optimized consumption based on consumption data, shopper and consumer insights
• Leads ambiguity and strategize solutions for the customer's business and 6P plan performance and quickly develop alternative plans as needed
• Works optimally across functions, channels, and categories to align priorities, seek problems, optimize resources, and drive effective execution

Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.

Are you interested in working for Hill's Pet Nutrition? You can apply online and attach all relevant documents such as a cover letter and resume or CV. Applications received by e-mail are not considered in the selection process. Become part of our team. We look forward to your application.

Work that matters, fueled by passion for pets!  At Hill’s we have a purpose.  Every day around the world, we transform the lives of millions of pet families through pioneering innovation, amazing nutrition, and the best and brightest people. Founded more than 75 years ago with an unwavering commitment to pet nutrition, Hills' mission is to help enrich and lengthen the special relationships between people and their pets. 

HILL'S® Prescription Diet® therapeutic pet foods, HILL'S® Science Diet® and HILL'S® Ideal Balanceâ„¢ wellness pet foods are sold worldwide. Hill’s is a division of Colgate-Palmolive, a leading global consumer products company, tightly focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition, with sales of products in more than 200 countries.  To learn more about Hill's and Colgate, please visit http://www.hillspet.com and http://www.colgatepalmolive.com, or find us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please contact Application_Accommodation@colpal.com with the subject "Accommodation Request" should you require accommodation.