Salary
💰 $85,000 - $95,000 per year
About the role
- Responsible for selling activities for Bumble Bee Foods for assigned customers in the West region.
- Develop and execute sales plans in partnership with Sales Leadership, Trade Marketing, Marketing, and Brokers.
- Lead efforts to develop Category influential plans to secure the best possible shelf merchandising for Bumble Bee items.
- Lead the broker relationship to ensure successful execution of plans.
- Assist in forecasting volume and sharing relevant customer information to ensure accurate deployment of inventory.
- Work across internal departments to resolve customer issues.
- Work with Trade Marketing to complete and review post-promotional analysis.
- Manage Trade Spend systems to minimize pricing and promotional discrepancies.
- Aggressively manage deductions at assigned customers to an expeditious resolution.
- Maintain the highest ethical and professional standards regarding business dealings.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree Preferred. Business or Marketing preferred.
- 2-3 years of CPG Sales or Category Management experience
- Computer literate; able to produce Excel spreadsheets, Word documents and PowerPoint.
- Understand and be able to apply syndicated data analysis into sales presentations.
- Fundamental and working knowledge of Trade Fund Management systems and internal sales/shipment reporting systems.
- Experience with CAS (TFM), Cognos and SAP preferred but not mandatory.
- Able to travel at least 25% of the time.
- Candidates must be based in: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington