Key Account Executive

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Sales

Our Sales teams help to deliver Reckitt's purpose by building shared success with our customers, making access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment possible in-stores and online. Within Sales, we're focused on achieving outperformance across all of our channels, operating in highly competitive categories. This focus results in a dynamic, fast paced environment where cross functional teams are encouraged to collaborate to achieve success. We have around 10,000 sales people across the world, within market roles and ranging in areas like Field Sales, Key Accounts, Trade Marketing and Category Development.

About the role

Your primary objective is to represent RB towards our Key Account customers, through regular individual store visits within an assigned sales territory.

The position is based within the Field Sales division of the RB Country Sales Operations. The position is assigned a territory and forms external customer relationships through regular store visits.

Your responsibilities

•    To plan and achieve agreed annual sales target for the assigned key account outlets, within agreed trade spend guidelines.
•    Develop good working and business relationship with the outlets. Negotiate with buyers, floor manager, branch manager, for sales, promotion, sampling as well as merchandising improvement.
•    Establish desirable distribution and sell in volumes for all products in consistent with marketing policy in the trade.
•    Continuously provide best service to our customer to ensure quality customer service. Maximise sales, maintain healthy inventory and ensure stock hygiene.
•    Provide and contribute problem solving related to RB products or to relevant sections.
•    Manage third party merchandiser to ensure product visibility and promotion compliance.
•    Ensure high level of market intelligence.

The experience we're looking for

•    Preferably educated to minimum Bachelor degree level ideally in a business related subject - from a recognized University.
•    This could be an entry level position for commercial graduate trainees, or for individuals with minimum 2 years’ experience in the FMCG industry.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.