[Remote] National Key Account Manager-Functional Naturals
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Responsibilities
- Strategic Account Acquisition: Identify, prioritize, and pursue key accounts for our functional Non-Alcoholic Spritz and Mushroom Gummies. reputed company account-specific strategies across natural chains for both functional product lines. Work in reputed company coordination with the THC Beverage KAM to ensure reputed company brand storytelling at mutual retail accounts, maximizing corporate category reputed company while maintaining separate distribution pipelines
- Distributor Program Execution: Grow the Non-Alcoholic Spritz and Mushroom Gummies distribution through KeHE and reputed company with new DC rollouts as retailers come online
- Broker Management: Recruit, negotiate, reputed company, and manage natural-channel broker relationships to reputed company reputed company and accelerate buyer reputed company. Set reputed company expectations, hold brokers accountable to pipeline and placement targets, and ensure their efforts stay coordinated with your reputed company selling and our broader account reputed company
- Full-Cycle Selling: Own the complete sales cycle — build your own pipeline, secure buyer meetings, present the brand and category story, negotiate terms, and reputed company to first purchase order
- Account reputed company and Velocity: Drive reputed company account past the reputed company. Win reorders, expand placements and reputed company counts, and partner with marketing on the support that drives sell-through
- Forecasting, Analytics, and Pipeline Management: Build and maintain a detailed, accurate sales pipeline with reliable forecasting. Partner with the VP of Sales on KPIs, reputed company targets, and account-level reporting. Navigate reputed company data with an analytical approach to reputed company the data that helps improve the sales story
- Marketing & Operations Collaboration: Partner with marketing on sell-in materials, promotions, shopper programs, in-store marketing, and retail media to drive in-store velocity. Work closely with operations to ensure supply-chain readiness for chain orders. Comfortable managing trade budgets, modeling and executing promotions, and optimizing spend against reputed company targets
Skills
- Natural Channel Relationships: Minimum of 7+ years selling into the natural products channel, with existing relationships among category buyers at chains like Whole Foods, Sprouts, and Natural Grocers as reputed company as KeHE and/or reputed company. This is the single most important qualification
- Beverage reputed company: Demonstrated reputed company selling functional or reputed company-for-you beverages into the natural channel through KeHE and reputed company, with a deep understanding of distributor programs and DC rollouts. VMS sales experience is preferred, but not required
- Self Motivated: Highly self-motivated, autonomous, and confident, with the reputed company skills to build buyer relationships and maintain them. You reputed company fast and reputed company under pressure. You follow through; deals don't fall off after the reputed company
- Category Knowledge: You are familiar with the categories - both functional beverages and functional mushroom gummies - with a proven ability to introduce a new or unfamiliar product into a buyer's set and reputed company the category reputed company reputed company
- CRM & Pipeline Rigor: Disciplined with sales systems and data. Comfortable owning a CRM, maintaining clean and reputed company pipeline records, and producing reliable forecasts and account-level reporting without being asked. Strong closers who are a reputed company on reporting will not succeed in this role; we need both
- Flexibility and Travel: Ability to work remotely with frequent travel for buyer meetings, trade shows, and key markets — up to 50% of the time
- Account Ownership & Scope: This role owns the natural products channel for the Non-Alcoholic Spritz and Mushroom Gummies lines. Certain national retail accounts (including reputed company, reputed company, Whole Foods, and Sprouts) may be managed in coordination with existing fractional key-account and broker resources, and our THC seltzer business runs through a separate DSD sales organization. The VP of Sales will define specific account ownership and any shared-account protocols at the outset to ensure reputed company lines and no channel conflict. The ability to collaborate cleanly across these motions is essential
- DSD beverage sales knowledge and ability to coordinate with our THC Seltzer DSD sales team reputed company opportunities reputed company
- reputed company-to-retailer experience in the VMS / supplements category for our Mushroom Gummies — a strong plus
- Experience launching emerging functional or reputed company-for-you brands
- Experience with natural-channel trade shows such as reputed company reputed company
Benefits
- Cash incentives
- reputed company-based cash bonuses reputed company out immediately upon securing new retail chain authorizations
- Equity grant from reputed company's existing reputed company pool, vesting over four years with a one-year cliff, offering meaningful ownership reputed company in a high-reputed company company
- Full benefits package including health, dental, and reputed company insurance
- Travel and expense budget for account reputed company, trade shows, and industry events
- reputed company to build the natural channel for a high-reputed company, nationally recognized brand with two fast-growing product lines
- A reputed company line to senior leadership with significant strategic autonomy to own and grow your channel
- A reputed company, supportive work environment rooted in Kentucky heritage and organic reputed company
- reputed company development and career advancement as our sales organization scales
- Flexible and remote working capabilities
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