Regional Sales Manager - Central And South America

Join Reynolds Consumer Products…and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities! We provide amazing job opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting, dynamic, fast-paced, and fun workplace environment. If you are looking to build a strong career, we have an opportunity for you! We are searching for a Regional Sales Manager - Central and South America based in Miami, FL or Panama to join our team (100% virtual role).

Your Role:

The Regional Sales Manager - Central and South America, is responsible for delivering annual commercial plans while setting the long-term strategic direction and growth aspirations for the assigned markets and/or customers. The position will focus on sales acceleration through stronger distributor and customer engagement, enhancement of executional standards, distribution expansion and improvement in operational efficiencies while achieving year on year margin improvement. This role leads the relationship with distributor teams and is responsible for developing relationships at top-to-top collaboration with lead customers across the region. We embrace and accept individual experiences and backgrounds to achieve a diverse and inclusive workplace.

You will have the opportunity to:

Business Results

Accountable for achieving business targets across the assigned markets and/or customers:

• Deliver Gross Profit (GP) target at an absolute and margin level in addition to year-on-year GP margin improvement.
• Achieve Sales targets (Gross and Net Sales) as per aligned monthly phasing targets.
• Accelerate market share and distribution gains in the region across categories.
• Achieve In-Market Sales (IMS) and healthy stock levels across all markets.

Personal Leadership

• Demonstrate a desire to take on new challenges, with multiple priorities, and managing ambiguity; while supporting a high-performance culture, founded on teamwork and collaboration to deliver the strategic and commercial objectives of the business.

Distributor Management

• Design and roll out optimum market coverage leveraging distributor resources and scale to achieve optimal distribution levels and in-market execution, to deliver sustainable sales growth.
• Management of distributor agreements including contract negotiation, margin optimization and annual commercial plan and resource requirements alignment.
• Build a strong commercial relationship with distributors across assigned markets and/or customers.
• Identify opportunities to consolidate distributors and leverage scale to accelerate growth and margin improvement.
• Secure incremental sales and profit growth through whitespace geographic and category expansion opportunities.

Customer Management

• Lead the distributor teams to drive optimal assortment, merchandising, pricing / promotion across key customers.
• Lead the activity planning process to build and implement key customer annual plans.
• Owner of the overall relationships with local and regional key customers.

Financial Planning and Controls

• Present customer monthly trade spending plan/actual and process distributor credit notes.
• Identify and target margin improvement initiatives
• Take required actions to improve SKU, channel and distributor mix management performance.
• Accountable for commercial P&L management for the assigned markets and/or customers.
• Complete frequent pricing reviews and capture price increase opportunities.
• Make trade spend investment and rationalization decision across the assigned markets and/or customers.

Operations

• Ensure implementation of integrated S&OP processes across the assigned markets and/or customers.
• Minimize OOS risk by maintaining aligned stock cover levels and compliance with ordering process and timelines.
• Improve forecast accuracy and adherence and long-term visibility of sales drivers.

Data and analytics

• Conduct monthly reviews by market leveraging GS, IMS, EPOS, distribution and market share data to assess country, channel and category performance and put rollout required action plans.
• Measure and execute actions to improve leading and lagging execution KPIs across strategic markets.
• Direct and run own deep analysis of data including syndicated data, POS data, IMS, internal sales; to identify issues/opportunities, causes to recommend and implement solutions.

You will love it here if…

• Strong analytical skills as well as organizational skills
• Must be team oriented with the ability to work on high collaboration and performance teams
• Strong entrepreneurial mindset and ability to manage high level of complexity and ambiguity
• Self-directed with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple accountability

We need you to have:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field, required
• Strong entrepreneurial attitude and ability to navigate through complexity and ambiguity
• 5 years, minimum, of sales/distributor management/customer and category management/trade marketing/ finance with a CPG company, required
• Very strong analytical skills required. Naturally inquisitive in exploring/mining data and looking for insights to drive business decisions
• Ability to travel internationally (75%)
• Expert in MS Office (minimum Excel, PowerPoint and Word)
• Ability to implement and manage integrated S&OP process across distributor markets
• Strong knowledge of the target region and its markets
• Strong understanding of trade spending and P&L management, required
• Ability to perform at both strategic and operational day-to-day levels
• Proven experience leading distributors and indirect sales organizations
• Fluent in English and Spanish

Icing on the cake:

• MBA or another advanced degree, preferred

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