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Brown-Forman

Produces and sells whiskey, vodka, wine

Off-Premise Key Account Manager

Account ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least three years of FMCG industry experience in account management and a network with wholesalers and retailers.
  • Demonstrate strategic thinking, business acumen, and sound judgment.
  • Act with integrity.
  • Show strong motivation to achieve results.
  • Build productive internal and external relationships with support from a manager and gain agreement for business proposals.
  • Set clear direction, prioritize, organize multiple business objectives, and manage them to completion by specified deadlines.
  • Work collaboratively as a team player and demonstrate conflict-management skills.
  • Adapt to challenges and overcome them flexibly.
  • Communicate persuasively through influencing, listening, presenting, and writing; explain analytical results clearly and concisely using charts, slides, or other visualizations.

Responsibilities

  • Develop a deep understanding of each customer's business, strategy, and goals, and use data and insights to identify business opportunities and threats and drive business decisions.
  • Build mutually beneficial relationships with wholesalers and retailers; develop and execute customer plans covering pricing, product portfolio, trade terms, promotional activities, and increased and activated in-store visibility.
  • Plan and lead semiannual customer progress meetings and business negotiations.
  • Manage a diverse customer base, create accurate demand forecasts, monitor promotional program effectiveness and efficiency, and allocate rebates and other budgets appropriately to drive profitable business growth.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with the sales planning division, trade marketing department, and other departments, and hold transparent discussions with stakeholders about challenges, opportunities, future plans, performance, and business insights.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in the alcohol industry, particularly premium and super-premium imported spirits, with knowledge of trade margins and rebates in wholesale and retail.
  • Experience working for a foreign-owned company, especially a U.S. or European company.
  • English proficiency.

About the Company

Brown-Forman

Produces and sells whiskey, vodka, wine

Brown-Forman is a major American-owned spirits and wine company that sells well-known brands such as Jack Daniel's, Woodford Reserve, Old Forester, Tequila Herradura, Finlandia vodka, and Korbel wine. It operates by producing and marketing a portfolio of branded alcoholic beverages that are distributed worldwide, in more than 160 countries. The company's products are sold under multiple label brands across categories like whiskey, tequila, vodka, liqueur, and wine, supported by global marketing, distribution, and responsibility programs. Brown-Forman differentiates itself through its large, diverse brand portfolio, extensive global reach, and focus on responsible consumption and community involvement. Its goal is to maintain leadership in the global spirits and wine market, grow shareholder value, and promote responsible drinking and sustainability across its operations.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Louisville, KY
Founded
1870

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