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Location(s):
United States of America
City/Cities:
Atlanta
Travel Required:
00% - 25%
Relocation Provided:
No
Job Posting End Date:
November 21, 2024
Shift:
Job Description Summary:
The Sales Manager will oversee a foodservice customer portfolio in Atlanta, GA. The role demands a comprehensive understanding of customer business needs, proficiency in identifying and addressing operational challenges, and skill in negotiating value-driven relationships with C-Suite executives. The Sales Manager will execute key priorities to propel the success of the customer portfolio and Coca-Cola’s sales growth.
Function Specific Activities
- Manage an Atlanta-based customer portfolio with a clear vision and strategic approach to achieve the Annual Business Plan (ABP). Accomplish this by harnessing best-in-class consumer insights, promoting category-leading brands, utilizing commercialized tools, fostering robust collaboration, and driving innovative solutions.
- Conduct regular business reviews with customers, providing channel-specific consumer insights, updates on the channel landscape, outlet-level audits, contract compliance evaluations, and expert recommendations. These efforts will secure your position as a trusted advisor at the customer's leadership table and drive mutual success.
- Identify and secure competitive and new customers through proactive outreach, relationship building, and strategic market analysis. Utilize a deep understanding of customer needs and market trends to develop compelling sales propositions, ensuring our products gain a broader market share and achieve sustained growth.
- Contract negotiation with the customers C-suite, third-party consultants, and the Coca-Cola system to enhance and formalize the partnership, growing both system revenue and brand availability.
- Engage with and leverage a networked organization to become a channel expert. Share successes with peers across the Coke system and continuously learn and deploy best practices from around the globe to support the delivery of the Annual Business Plan (ABP).
Qualification & Requirements
- Fluency in Spanish and English, with strong verbal and written communication in both languages.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience is required.
- 3-5 years of successful sales account management experience.
- Demonstrated sales lead development and account cultivation.
- Experience with ongoing relationship building and the ability to identify and address customer needs.
- Proven track record of securing sales of various offerings, working with multiple levels of purchasing tiers.
- Strong communication, technical presentation, sales negotiation, and closing techniques.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities without direct supervision effectively.
- Proven ability to identify customer needs based on feedback from the customer as well as through the use of technical knowledge.
Leadership Behaviors:
- Be the Role Model: live the growth behaviors and act with a growth mindset, build an environment of trust and safety, and seek the right outcome, not the comfortable one.
- Set the Agenda: dream big and establish a compelling vision, bring the outside in by shamelessly borrowing and reapplying, and disagree then commit.
- Help People Be Their Best Selves: build and develop talent, serve as a coach and a connector, and make your passion irresistible.
Skills:
- Prospecting, Analytical Thinking, Business Planning, Contract Negotiations, Customer Negotiations, Influencing, Leadership, and Strategic Selling.
Skills:
Account Management, Business Development, Business Planning, Collaborative Leadership, Communication, Consultative Sales Management, Contracts, Customer Insights, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Decision Making, Influencing, Marketing, National Account Sales, Pitch Presentations, Sales Forecasting, Sales Management, Sales Negotiations, Sales Process, Strategic Selling
Pay Range:
$98,400 - $120,000
Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.
Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:
15
Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.
Our Purpose and Growth Culture:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. When we collect your personal information as part of a job application or offer of employment, we do so in accordance with industry standards and best practices and in compliance with applicable privacy laws.
What We Do
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is a total beverage company, offering over 500 brands in more than 200 countries and territories.
In addition to the company’s Coca-Cola brands, our portfolio includes some of the world’s most valuable beverage brands, such as AdeS soy-based beverages, Ayataka green tea, Dasani waters, Del Valle juices and nectars, Fanta, Georgia coffee, Gold Peak teas and coffees, Honest Tea, innocent smoothies and juices, Minute Maid juices, Powerade sports drinks, Simply juices, smartwater, Sprite, vitaminwater and ZICO coconut water.
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