Key Accounts Manager (DACH)

What we ask

• Bachelor or University degree
• Fluency in German and in English
• Minimum of 3-5 years working experience in similar functions
• Customer centricity mindset and able to act with speed and decisiveness to achieve the best results
• Responsibility for your work and are continuously looking for new opportunities to make a change
• Commercial Acumen: Executing regional strategy that aligns with local market needs & opportunities
• Teamwork: Collaborating with internal stakeholders; teamwork; building & maintaining positive relationships with clients via strong interpersonal skills
• Organizational Acumen: Managing multiple clients and their accounts; Analyzing data related to client accounts and building the data to actionable insights

What we offer

• Unique company culture and international presence
• We offer great work life balance, and competitive salary & benefits package so you can enjoy it
• Flexible working hours and the ability to work from home
• Diverse training and mentoring programs to help you grow on your own professional journey
• Exceptional support of cross disciplinary movement within the company to broaden your knowledge and growth paths
• A friendly and informal working environment, yet professional team members as sparring partners
• Autonomy and trust to create longer term impact that helps bring better nutrition to the world
• Hybrid Work
• Free parking and subsidised public transport tickets

Vacancy description

The Key Account Manager Germany will be managing the business for the defined customer group in Germany. Your main responsibility will be to optimize this region by unlocking growth perspective via new customer activation & expanding the full product portfolio via our partner wholesalers. At the same time, you will maintain our profitability levels handling the different market dynamics in this region. Growing customer reach digitally in geographical areas that cover the largest number of operators of Horeca & Bakery is also part of the focus. This position requires mature and experienced negotiation capabilities, customer focus and entrepreneurship. Main accountabilities are:

• Manage top wholesalers & main A&B customers in Germany
• Customer management with full P&L responsibility for defined customers
• Full responsibility of annual negotiations for defined customers
• Responsibility of volume development and execution in line with the FC-P strategy for defined customers
• Developing measures to sustainably increase customer profitability and long-term customer loyalty
• Development of customer strategies based on brand and channel strategies as well as customer-specific marketing concepts
• Maintain Joint Business Planning at strategic distribution partners (wholesalers, Cash & Carry, local distributors)
• Optimizing the speed, efficiency, and quality of all customer-related processes
• Use of market and competition analyses to expand our own market position
• Representation of FC-P at main events and fairs