Area Manager - South Italy Region Milano

Area Manager - South Italy Region
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

What we Offer

Within our Natural Europe Specialty Business Unit, we offer a **Team Area Manager** position**, ** for South Italy, reporting to the Commercial Director BU.

The mission is to develop the sales according to annual targets and to build a sustainable business, managing budget and distributors assigned.

**What will you will do

- Build plans by clients, in collaboration with distributors and Trade Marketing, finding synergies with the initiatives of Brand development.

- Define, implement and analyse the actions that can help to develop the business on the market.

- Ensure the execution and tracking of the business plan

- In coordination with Trade Marketing, transfer content to our Key Clients to maximise the visibility of our brands

- Support the distributors on their sales team development

- Define strategy and action favouring teamwork of merchandiser, InfoVet and sales team.

- Support the distributors on secondary agreement negotiations.

- Working crosswise with Trade MArketing, Marketing, Commercial Director and Operations to contribute to overall commercial vision of the market assigned.

- Identify business opportunities, quantify and develop them

- Management of the Trade investment and budgets.

**What we are looking for

- Previous experience working in multinational companies, idealy from the retail or consumer sector

- Previous experience in managing a sales team: set up the development plan of sales team/distributors; capability to solidify the teamwork inside the area assigned, thanks to relationship.

- Customer Management experience: set up the client's account plan (promotions, assortment, visibility ) in order to maximize turnover and the profit.

- Analytical attitude: ability to identify the source of business, risks and opportunities of each client.

Definition of the promotional plan, analysis of the results and finding the adequate adjustments based on the learnings.

- Experience in direct interaction with clients: ability to support the company strategy with clients

**What we offer

- Pet-friendly office

- Hybrid working model (3 Office + 2 Home)

- The opportunity of making an impact on the business and leaving your footprint.

- Working with international experts and experienced professionals to share and learn from.

- We cultivate an open culture that embraces diversity and inclusion.

We believe it is vital to our success as a company and as a team.

That's why we offer equal opportunities for all.

- We offer competitive salaries with a number of company benefits

**Our Company

Affinity Petcare is more than an international petfood company.

For more than 50 years, we have been dedicated to nourishing healthy bonds between dogs, cats and people to make the world a better place.

We are very proud of our innovative brands which include: Ultima, Advance, Brekkies, Nature's Variety, Nature's Menu, Natural Trainer, Libra and more.

Currently, we are over 1, 100 professionals working for this purpose from Barcelona, Paris, Milan, and Snetterton, as well as 4 production sites through which we supply the 70+ countries where our brands have a presence.

So, what are you waiting for?

Join our team to leave your footprint!

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