EMEA Strategic Account Manager

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Company Description

Amer Sports is a sporting goods company with internationally recognized brands including Salomon, Arc'teryx, Peak Performance, Atomic and Wilson.

"The Mountain Sport Company", Salomon was born in 1947 in the heart of the French Alps and the birthplace of modern alpinism. Salomon's commitment to innovative design and passion for mountain sports created a vast range of revolutionary new concepts in bindings, boots, skis and apparel for both Alpine and Nordic skiing and brought innovative solutions to footwear, apparel and equipment for snowboarding, adventure racing, mountaineering, hiking, trail running, and many other sports.

Through performance driven design, Salomon delivers innovation and progression to mountain sports; converting new ideas into action and expanding the limits of possibility. Salomon's heritage, culture, and commitment are tied together by one simple concept: the world's leading mountain people creating the world's leading mountain products. Salomon is responsibly committed towards the outdoor through its sustainable program. Diversity is one of Salomon's five values, therefore we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all.

Salomon is headquartered in Annecy, France with UK offices in Camberley.

Job Description

The Strategic Account Manager (SAM) is the overall owner of the assigned strategic account and maintains an exceptional understanding of the strategic accounts' strategy, positioning to consumers, shopper profiles, and the priorities of various purchase decision-makers.

The SAM is responsible for driving profitable sales growth by planning initiatives to grow the retailer's sales and profitability across the portfolio using a Joint Business Plan approach. The SAM is able to articulate the potential of the account via the Customer Value Assessment (CVA) and works closely with the Merchandising and Sales Data Analyst Team relating to relevant category products to drive profitable sales growth. The SAM is responsible for the overall P&L of the customer and execution of the trade marketing activities which ensures premium brand presentation of Salomon.

The scope of the role covers JD Group Europe.

As the Strategic Account Manager, your main responsibilities include:

• Joint Business Plan Responsibility: Own the account strategic Joint Business Plan including the Joint Marketing Plan.
  • Build the plan working with Marketing and Merchandising and manages the overall execution of the JBP.
  • Drive execution together with the KAM team.
• Business Relationship Owner: Own the account relationship holistically (CEO/Buying Director, Buying departments and other key stakeholder) and Salomon Senior Management (Top to Top meetings). You are the key negotiator with the account.
• Category planning: Accountable for the Customer Value Assessment (CVA) and ensures that the KAM team provides regular updates to the commercial/merchandising team. Understands the outputs to develop strategic growth plans.
• Ownership of Account relevant KPIs and Data (Sell-thru rates, web data analytics, share of shelf, MOV) and drive action plan to improve them.
• Forecasting: Accountable for accurate account forecasting (holistically).
• Seasonal Commercial Plan: Own account plan performance and coherence in Local Execution Meeting (LEM). Oversees and coordinates presentations with KAMs and Shopper Marketeers, aligns marketing plan and endorses Channel Right Assortment (CRA) by category.

Qualifications

Essential Skills & Experience

• You possess 8+ years of experience in Key Account Management preferably in sporting goods, fashion or retail with experience leading JD Group.
• You have a proven track record of delivering results, collaborate and communicating effectively with internal and external teams while building strong relationships.
• You are able to travel regularly up to 50% of the time.

Essential Competencies

• Drive for Results: You find new ways to get things done. You often go above and beyond what's asked and look to improve upon standard operating procedures.
• Customer Focus: Putting customer needs at the center of organizational decision making. You advocate for the customer in the interest of long-term benefit to both and are a trusted advisor to the customer and is included in strategic-level discussions to enhance customer's own offering.
• Collaboration: You have the ability to work with peers and partners to drive results & improve performance. You are able to forge new partnerships, creating new collaboration networks to achieve goals. You recognize sources of conflict and act to resolve them to get to win-win outcomes.

Desired Qualifications

• Education: Bachelors' or Masters' degree in a business-related field, or equivalent.
• Languages: English fluent, both spoken and written.
• IT: Microsoft Suite, Particularly Excel, BI, PowerPoint.

Additional Information

Permanent Contract, Full Time

Job based in Manchester or Camberley, UK.

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