Junior National Account Manager - #135076

Calling all rule-breakers, innovators & fun-loving self-starters! Are you smart, sassy & scrappy? Do you love to laugh out loud? You’re just what we’re lookin’ for, Gorgeous!

We’re Benefit Cosmetics, the indie beauty brand-turned-prestige powerhouse under leading luxury products group Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy. Founded in 1976 by twins Jean & Jane Ford in San Francisco, today we’re in 59 countries with more than 3,000 BrowBars & 6,000 trained service experts worldwide. At Benefit, we believe laughter is the best cosmetic, because when we’re laughing & having fun, that’s when we’re our most beautiful. We're known to work smart & laugh hard. Sound like you? You’ve come to the right place!

We have an exciting opportunity available for a Junior National Accounts Manager to join our team. The Junior National Account Manager builds effective relationships with retail partners in order to drive opportunities, initiatives and delivery of wholesale targets & company objectives in line with annual plans

Job Responsibilities

• Deliver your designated retail/ wholesale objectives and support NA Team on delivering national wholesale and retail objectives for other relevant accounts
• Plan, deliver and support on all pillars of retrospective retailers annual and three-year plans aswell as strategy documents for company meetings including:
• Quarterly strategy meetings, ensuring all departments have fed into you their annual plan updates
• Regular commercial meetings to discuss wholesale, stock and sales analysis
• Ad-hoc meetings with all other relevant departments both internally & with your retailers
• Lead negotiations on your accounts
• Negotiate space and locations within your retailer
• Unlock new commercial opportunities
• Analyse sales & forecasting for relevant retailer, nationally and by store across both product & services, ensuring stock goes to the right places to drive the objectives
• Review the sell-in and sell-through with particular emphasis on priority launches. Ensure follow up orders are placed where further stock is required
• Support your retailer on driving a collaborative plan that has is partnership driven
  
  

Profile

Skills / Abilities Commercial Team player Driven and ability to drive those around them without having direct management responsibility Customer and relationship focused Ability to be both proactive and reactive Attention to detail IT skills; advanced excel Analytical and numerate Persuading and influencing Effective negotiation Creative and innovative Good communicator Able to work under pressure