Area Manager Modern Trade
Unilever
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Lahore
Contract type: Full time

Unilever is currently hiring for Area Manager Modern Trade
Function: Customer Development
Work Level: WL1
Reports to: KAM North
Scope: Local
Location: Lahore Sales Office
Terms & Conditions: Full time
Job Purpose
The objective of this role is to lead field relations with key accounts and partner effectively with Assistant Key Account Managers to ensure effective and efficient distribution operations to deliver sales KPIs / targets across accounts.
What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be
Experiences & Qualifications
Function: Customer Development
Work Level: WL1
Reports to: KAM North
Scope: Local
Location: Lahore Sales Office
Terms & Conditions: Full time
Job Purpose
The objective of this role is to lead field relations with key accounts and partner effectively with Assistant Key Account Managers to ensure effective and efficient distribution operations to deliver sales KPIs / targets across accounts.
What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be
- Develop plans and strategies for Volume delivery and sustainable growth in the area
- Daily/weekly monitoring of business performance
- Increase numeric and weighted distribution of Unilever Brands and SKUs
- Achieve Intelligent Quantum and Field Capability Score KPI’s on monthly basis
- Stock management and ensure secondary CCFOT as per given targets
- Ensure quality of sales and distribution
- Ensure implementation of all new Initiatives and category specific plans
- Increase direct coverage versus relevant universe
- Achievement of perfect store and all visibility initiatives KPIs
- Ensure customer’s required finances and Profitability (ROI)
- Training and development of Territory Managers
- Resource allocation
- Optimize utilization of IT tools
- Implementation of customized distribution models as per need basis
- Territory and outlet management
- Implementation of Joint business plan and regular reviews to ensure compliance
- Feedback and suggestion on competitor activities
- Ensure best practices of warehousing and FIFO at both distributor and trade
- Follow and ensure audit guidelines by Unilever
- Ensures that distributor operations and processes are safe and are guided by Unilever safety policies and principles
Experiences & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree Required, MBA preferred
- 2 – 4 Years of Sales Experience
- Adept at relationship management
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to collaborate with and influence multiple teams and stakeholders
- Ability to nurture talent within their teams
- Able to formulate and communicate strategic vision
- Proven ability to negotiate
- You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
- You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.
- Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
- PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
- PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
- PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
- CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
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