Job Details
- Contract Type:
- Unlimited / Full-Time
- Country / City:
- South Africa / Durban
- Company:
- Beiersdorf Consumer Products (Pty.) Ltd.
- Job Function:
- Sales

Financial Business Management
• Customer volume forecasting, customer budgeting (including shopper marketing annual expenditure) and TTC delivery phased by month and by category.
• Internal and external category mix and profitability must be considered in this understanding.
Analytics & Reporting
• Providing an accurate sales forecast annually and monthly.
• Use/analyse data sources (promotional activity, ROS, customer stock holding) and trends to enable sales forecast.
• Develops optimal integrated promo plan, analyses promo ROI and manage promo investments
• Analyse/evaluate customer data, generate insights and opportunities to drive growth within customer (Epos Data source, Loyalty shopper card, Nielsen, /Quantitative and Qualitative research data)
Shopper Customer Management ( S&CM)
• Understanding of shopper behavior and insights to optimize path to purchase within account.
• Collaborative workings with S&CM Team to craft account specific shopper-led activity.
• Implementation of NPD and core business support plans
Stakeholder Management
• Develop and execute strategic joint business plans with customers/ Use of customer economic model i.e. Penetration x Frequency x Basket spend x Margins - operational cost= Cash profit
• Drive Thought Leadership with implementing category management principles.
• Develop and manage customer relationships.
• Represent external customers within the business (Customer Audit/insights/strategies)
Strategy Development
• Sales agenda alignment: Apply key sales strategy focus areas into account planning and day to day delivery.
• Channel alignment: Build an account plan closely aligned to the Channel strategy and purposely develop on the strategic principals where specifically applicable to the account.
• Account alignment: Build an account plan with Business, Sales and Channel strategic agendas that focusses on a sustainable financial delivery for the current period and sets out a clear account vision into the future.
Selling & Negotiating
• Utilization of selling and negotiating tools/skills to drive value creation for Beiersdorf as well as the customer, by leveraging the correct portfolio mix, which aids in driving overall category profitability
• Business management: Joint business planning to drive growth for Beiersdorf and customer, using the Customer Economic Model.
• Cross functional leverage: Working with Trade Analytics team to identify gaps/opportunities in account, and working with S&CM team to plan activity based on identified gaps/opportunities.
Operational Execution
• Share of shelf: Ongoing engagement with customer to ensure allocation of correct share of shelf
• Placement: Ensure correct placement of ranged sku’s in accordance with agreed planogram.
• Distribution: Ensure availability of ranged sku’s.
• Promo compliance in place where agreed
• NPD on shelf, as per agreed ranging: KAM to have NPD listed and ordered into DC’s 2 weeks post STT
Sales Administration
• Price increase: communication and agreement obtained within customer SOP
• NPD’s: list and range per store profile
• Assortment: agree correct assortment on shelf through distribution reports.
• Maintain price file to current.
• Agreed activities documented and saved on share drive.
Education :
BCOM or equivalent
Experience
• As this is a strategic growth Channel this position requires a minimum of 4-6 years National key account management.
• Working with an independent large retail account
• National Key Account management and customer exposure
• Proven track record managing a diverse client within Traditional Trade
Your responsible recruiter is Akash Sharma.
Marketing is more than selling—it's about shaping emotions, understanding people, and building connections. It's a journey of creativity, collaboration, and curiosity, where every campaign helps people fall in love with our brands and their skin. Through marketing, I've learned to embrace challenges, stay curious, and unlock endless potential.
