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Key Account Manager, Pets

Learning Resources · United States · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteSales$95k–$115k/yrFull-time
We need to produce HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually the posting includes "About Learning Resources" (company description) and "Team & Position Description" (role description). Also "What We're Looking For (Key Performance Objectives)" (objectives). Then "Requirements/Ideal Attributes". Also salary range and benefits mentioned. We must not repeat job title as heading. Use

for section headings: e.g., About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. But we should only include sections when posting has real specific content. We have content for About the role (company description), Responsibilities (the bullet list of duties), Requirements (BS/BA, experience etc), Qualifications maybe overlapping, Skills (communication, computer skills), Benefits (profit sharing, 401k matching, variety of other benefits), Pay (salary range). Schedule maybe not present (no schedule details). So we should not include Schedule. We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Salary range is given: $95,000 - $115,000 plus commissions – Actual compensation may vary due to other factors such as: years of experience, skill set or location. That's specific enough. Benefits: "Total compensation includes profit sharing bonus potential, 401k matching, and a variety of other benefits (details can be found here )." That's specific enough. We need to use
  • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. For prose, use

    . So we need to convert bullet lists into

    • . The posting includes bullet-like sentences separated by periods? Let's extract. Company description: "About Learning Resources We are Learning Resources® , and learning is where we play. Voted one of the Chicago Tribune’s Top Workplaces, we’re a growing, family-owned company known for our award-winning educational toys, including top sellers Pretend & Play® Calculator Cash Register, Farmer’s Market Color Sorting Set and multiple Toy of the Year winners! We even help pets learn and grow through our pet brand Brightkins®. If you’re curious, collaborative, and a kid at heart, you’ll feel right at home here. Join us in shaping the future of learning with our award-winning team!" We can put that as

      under heading About the role. Responsibilities: The paragraph after "Team & Position Description Working as a Key Account Manager, Pets at Learning Resources leading our Brightkins brand is a role rooted in new business development and collaboration across sales, finance, product development and brand teams. Here's why it's awesome:" then list items: - Seek, identify and close new business opportunities using market research and comprehensive development of pet industry knowledge and contacts. - In conjunction with senior management, contribute to strategic and tactical account planning including daily execution of sales plans, joint business planning, and developing sales forecasts. - Review and analyze reports for trends in increased sales, lost sales, and general status of business. - Collaborate with internal teams across Marketing, Product Development, Creative, Finance and Sales to develop products, programs and promotions that drive growth within the mass consumer retail and e-commerce markets. - Develop strong relationships with key decision-makers at key pet accounts while earning credibility within the industry - Attend Trade Shows to learn about competitors, show new products and seek out new business opportunities. - Perform other duties and assume additional responsibilities as assigned to support business and team objectives. We need to put each as

    • . What We're Looking For (Key Performance Objectives): bullet points with timeframes. - Within the first 30 days: establish internal relationships with cross functional partners as well as customers in order to become the main point of contact for our pet brand and business. - Within the first 60 days: initiate direct outreach to target accounts with a goal of setting 5 new meetings monthly. - Within the first 90 days: secure new accounts, distribution gains or formal retailer commitments to increase revenue impact and work towards hitting quota numbers. - Within the first year, performance will be measured by the success of building a strong new business pipeline, securing new distribution and customers, and converting opportunities into measurable revenue growth. We could treat as Responsibilities? But it's objectives. Could be separate section maybe "Objectives". But allowed headings list includes About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. No explicit "Objectives". Could embed under Responsibilities or maybe under Requirements? Better to put under Responsibilities as they are performance expectations. But we already have responsibilities list. Could combine? Might be okay to have a separate section "Objectives" but not allowed heading. The instruction: Use

      for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It says e.g., meaning those are examples, not exclusive? It says "Use

      for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." Likely they expect those headings only. So we should map content to those headings. Objectives could go under Responsibilities or maybe under Requirements? I'd put under Responsibilities as they are performance expectations. Requirements/Ideal Attributes: list: - BS/BA is required. - 3-5 years prior experience in a sales hunter role is required, Petco and PetSmart experience strongly preferred. - Minimum 2 years’ experience managing outside Representatives in a results driven culture. - Proven track record of excellence in sales activity. - Experience with strategic planning, budgeting (including P&L), and expense management. - Strong communication skills with internal and external stakeholders. - Strong computer skills; Microsoft Office Suite - Required travel: 30% of the time including trade shows, customer meetings (located in the US and Canada), and team meetings (Chicago, IL). Also note: "We are a drug-free workplace and an EEO employer." That's boilerplate EEO, should be removed per instruction: remove EEO/equal-opportunity boilerplate. Also "Please note: This role will be filled by our internal recruitment team, so no assistance is needed from any outside staffing agency at this time." That's application instruction? It's internal note, maybe remove as it's not substantive? It's about recruitment process; could be considered boilerplate? Probably remove. Salary and benefits: "Salary Range: $95,000 - $115,000 plus commissions – Actual compensation may vary due to other factors such as: years of experience, skill set or location. Total compensation includes profit sharing bonus potential, 401k matching, and a variety of other benefits (details can be found here )." We need Pay section: include salary range. Benefits section: profit sharing, 401k matching, variety of other benefits. We should not include "details can be found here" as it's a link; maybe keep as prose but it's reference; we can keep. We must not include Schedule. Now produce HTML fragment:

      About the role

      ... company description ...

      Responsibilities

      • Seek, identify and close new business opportunities using market research and comprehensive development of pet industry knowledge and contacts.
      • In conjunction with senior management, contribute to strategic and tactical account planning including daily execution of sales plans, joint business planning, and developing sales forecasts.
      • Review and analyze reports for trends in increased sales, lost sales, and general status of business.
      • Collaborate with internal teams across Marketing, Product Development, Creative, Finance and Sales to develop products, programs and promotions that drive growth within the mass consumer retail and e-commerce markets.
      • Develop strong relationships with key decision-makers at key pet accounts while earning credibility within the industry.
      • Attend trade shows to learn about competitors, show new products and seek out new business opportunities.
      • Perform other duties and assume additional responsibilities as assigned to support business and team objectives.
      Maybe also include objectives as part of responsibilities? Could add extra bullet points under responsibilities for objectives. But we already have responsibilities list; we could add more bullet points for objectives. However the objectives are time-bound; they could be separate but we can incorporate as responsibilities. Let's add them as additional
    • under responsibilities. Thus responsibilities list will have 7+4 = 11 items. Now Requirements:

      Requirements

      • BS/BA is required.
      • 3-5 years prior experience in a sales hunter role is required; Petco and PetSmart experience strongly preferred.
      • Minimum 2 years’ experience managing outside representatives in a results‑driven culture.
      • Proven track record of excellence in sales activity.
      • Experience with strategic planning, budgeting (including P&L), and expense management.
      • Strong communication skills with internal and external stakeholders.
      • Strong computer skills; Microsoft Office Suite.
      • Required travel: 30% of the time including trade shows, customer meetings (located in the US and Canada), and team meetings (Chicago, IL).
      Skills: maybe we can separate communication and computer skills as Skills section. But we already included them under Requirements. Could create Skills section for those. However we must not duplicate content. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." If we split, we still preserve all info. It's okay to have separate sections for Skills. But we need to decide. We have Requirements section already includes communication and computer skills. Could also have Skills section highlighting those. But that would duplicate. Better to keep them under Requirements and not create separate Skills section unless we have other skills not covered. The posting also mentions "Strong communication skills" and "Strong computer skills; Microsoft Office Suite". Those are skills. Could move them to Skills section and keep Requirements for experience/education. Let's do that: Requirements for education/experience; Skills for communication/computer. Thus:

      Requirements

      • BS/BA is required.
      • 3-5 years prior experience in a sales hunter role is required; Petco and PetSmart experience strongly preferred.
      • Minimum 2 years’ experience managing outside representatives in a results‑driven culture.
      • Proven track record of excellence in sales activity.
      • Experience with strategic planning, budgeting (including P&L), and expense management.
      • Required travel: 30% of the time including trade shows, customer meetings (located in the US and Canada), and team meetings (Chicago, IL).

      Skills

      • Strong communication skills with internal and external stakeholders.
      • Strong computer skills; Microsoft Office Suite.
      Benefits:

      Benefits

      • Profit sharing bonus potential
      • 401k matching
      • A variety of other benefits (details can be found here)
      Pay:

      Pay

      Salary range: $95,000 - $115,000 plus commissions – actual compensation may vary due to factors such as years of experience, skill set, or location.

      We should not include Schedule. Now ensure we removed boilerplate: EEO, drug-free workplace, internal recruitment note, etc. Check for any leftover boilerplate: "We are a drug-free workplace and an EEO employer." removed. "Please note: This role will be filled by our internal recruitment team, so no assistance is needed from any outside staffing agency at this time." removed. Now ensure we preserved all substantive info: company description, responsibilities, objectives (we added as responsibilities), requirements, skills, benefits, pay. Check if we missed any: "Attend Trade Shows to learn about competitors, show new products and seek out new business opportunities." we have as "Attend trade shows to learn about competitors, show new products and seek out new

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