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Mars

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

Key Account Manager

Account ManagementPosted on Nov 9
Full-timeGuadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

About the Job

Requirements

  • Direct experience managing the Farmacias Guadalajara account for another fast-moving consumer goods company.
  • A completed bachelor's degree in an administrative field, marketing, engineering, or a field related to commercial roles.
  • Solid, demonstrable experience in key account management or commercial management within the fast-moving consumer goods industry, ideally in food or pet care.
  • Advanced knowledge of commercial negotiation, trade-spend budget control, margin optimization, and profit-and-loss statements.
  • Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams in a results-driven environment.
  • Ability to solve problems by analyzing factual information and developing data-based proposals using trend analysis and market metrics.
  • Availability to travel 10% of the time.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and design mutually agreed joint business plans with the customer to drive profitable portfolio growth.
  • Strategically manage the commercial account to meet key objectives for revenue, profit margins, distribution, pricing, promotions, and seasonality.
  • Coordinate effective new-product launches, optimize shelf space, and ensure strong visibility at the point of sale.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Logistics, Marketing, Category, and Execution teams to ensure product availability and excellent customer service.
  • Effectively administer and optimize trade-promotion funds in accordance with internal corporate policies.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in purchasing within modern or proximity retail channels, providing a strategic perspective on customer priorities.
  • Familiarity with market-analysis tools such as Nielsen and with promotion- and inventory-management platforms.

About the Company

Mars

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

Mars makes confectionery, food, and petcare products and also operates pet health services through networks like Banfield, VCA, BluePearl, and Royal Canin. Its products are marketed under familiar brands such as M&M’s, Snickers, Milky Way, Skittles, Dove, Orbit, Pedigree, Royal Canin, Whiskas, and Cocoavia, sold globally to consumers and pet owners. The company differs from competitors by combining a broad, diversified portfolio with a global, family-owned structure guided by the Mars Principles (Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency, Freedom), which drives its operations and partnerships. Mars aims to help communities prosper and to grow its business while improving social and environmental outcomes, using its scale to support responsible practices across the world.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$27B
Headquarters
McLean, VA
Founded
1911

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