Sales - Section Manager

Selling alone is no longer sufficient to approach the market today. Customer Business Development is essentially how you create collaborative partnership with our customers, beyond basic selling.

You will help individual customers (whether retail and distributors) build their sales, market share and profit. By doing this, you ensure growing consumer demand for P&G brands. You will have the opportunity to interact with teams from Finance, Brand, Product Supply, and Management System.

Your prime responsibility is to identify business-building opportunities to mutually grow the customers business and P&G brands. You will have the chance to experience high level of leadership & communication skills in your daily & monthly planning and via interaction with customers.

You start your career as a section manager, with an assigned area and customers, where you sell and merchandise P&G brands, carrying out P&G trade plans in each of your stores.

By working closely together with your customers, you will analyze the market to develop merchandising plans and in-store activities. Your day-to-day coaching and structured training program will gradually give you the fundamentals of merchandising, distribution, shelf-planning, and promotional support.

Key responsibilities include:
- Understanding your customers systems, objectives, strategies and incentives; participating in re-models and resets of your stores.
- Developing and implementing plans to sell and grow P&G brands and win vs. competition in your assigned stores.
- Carrying out distribution, shelving, and display and pricing objectives in your area.
- Accurately reporting and monitoring, on a timely basis, your stores' results; and developing strong healthy relationships with your customers.

Summary of Job Requirements:
- Minimum education of BA or BS with good academic results.
- Strong skills in leadership, and excellent in communication.
- Good command of the English & local language
- Travel to local customers at least 40% of time.
- Must have a valid driver's license