
Junior Key Account Manager - DIY Channel
- Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage the Henkel P&L to deliver sales and profit targets through your customer portfolio, creating annual commercial account plans for each customer, managing trade investment funds within company, Brand guidelines and negotiating with customers.
- Identify new customer business opportunities and open accounts with new customers.
- Manage account-specific product range, store distribution, pricing, promotion, and brand activation plans to profitably grow Henkel sales and market share.
- Analyse market, consumer, category, competitor, financial and operational factors to identify opportunities and risks to deliver improved commercial results.
- Evaluate all trade investment and promotional activity to ensure achievement of financial objectives.
- Establish positive & proactive relationships / joint working practices with customers and within Henkel through effective cross-functional networking.
- Ensure the fulfilment of Henkel's commercial, operational, and service level customer commitments, following Henkel's commercial policies and standards.
- Produce monthly financial and sku volume forecasts for your customers.
- 1 year experience in Key Account Management, ideally within the DIY market.
- Critical thinking - able to understand complex market, customer, brand, commercial and operational issues.
- Commercial acumen, analytical skills, and decision making.
- Negotiation skills - able to handle conflict situations and tough conversations.
- Relationship, collaboration & influencing - strong people skills.
- Organised, able to manage a complex and diverse workload, able to prioritise and meet deadlines.
- Proactive, solutions-focused, self-starter.
- Positive attitude towards personal growth and career development.
- Flexible work scheme with flexible hours, hybrid work model, and work from anywhere policy for up to 30 days per year
- Diverse national and international growth opportunities
- Global wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs
- Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks
- Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares
- Performance bonus / incentives
- Competitive Pension & Life Assurance - Company contributes up to 10% of basic salary
- Annual Leave: 27 days plus 8 Bank Holidays
- Celebration vouchers