Retail Team Manager

About the role

Join Swedish Match North America LLC as a Retail Team Manager. This role is critical to the high-performing sales team, managing all sales and executional functions within the assigned geography including retail sales, account management, and wholesaler sales.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute effective business plans at accounts assigned to him/her.
• Oversee and manage appropriate routing and call coverage of team members to ensure proper execution of distribution and merchandising objectives.
• Analyze business building opportunities and develop executional plans for his/her geography to accomplish company, region, and district goals and initiatives.
• Manage operational data collection from team to ensure timely reporting of retail and account metrics to Market Sales Manager.
• Provide on-going development feedback and support to team to address opportunities adhering to Performance Management principles and standards.
• Collaborate effectively with BDM and SAM/KAM to ensure alignment of executional objectives within market in service of providing appropriate direction to TSMs.
• Strive for operational excellence with efficient & effective use of resources.
• Collaborate and actively engage with Talent Acquisition in recruitment process for new TSMs in accordance with company recruiting and selection guidelines and policies.
• Develop and ensure alignment of personalized development plans for direct reports based on Sales Competency Model.
• Provide ongoing coaching to support team development in accordance with Performance Management standards and principles and Sales Competency Model.
• Communicate with Impact consistently with team, cross-functional partners, and his/her customers.
• Create a culture that fosters cooperation, credibility, candor, consistency, acting with integrity, and a commitment to exceptional performance across the team and with cross-functional partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
• 3-5+ years of retail sales, wholesale grocery, or route sales required.
• Strong planning, organizational, leadership, coaching, and teamwork skills required.
• Strong verbal and written presentation skills required.
• Strong analytical skills in service of understanding complex data to develop actionable initiatives to address business opportunities required.
• Strong understanding and utilization of resources such as: Microsoft Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, MSA data, Salesforce (MAFs, store lists, trade programs, campaigns, customer contact information, authorized items), Syndicated data, Fluent in English.
• Likewise, legally authorized to work in the U.S.

Qualifications

• Committed to Swedish Match’s vision and mission.
• Self-motivated to achieve their personal best every day while creating an environment where cooperation, credibility, candor, consistency, and a commitment to exceptional performance exists.

Skills

• Strong planning, organizational, leadership, coaching, and teamwork skills.
• Strong verbal and written presentation skills.
• Strong analytical skills in service of understanding complex data to develop actionable initiatives to address business opportunities.
• Strong understanding and utilization of resources such as: Microsoft Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, MSA data, Salesforce (MAFs, store lists, trade programs, campaigns, customer contact information, authorized items), Syndicated data, Fluent in English.

Benefits

Annual Base Salary Range: $90,000 to $120,000

Pay

Annual Base Salary Range: $90,000 to $120,000

Schedule

Full-time

Company Information

Philip Morris International (PMI) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. PMI is headquartered in Stamford, Conn., and its U.S. affiliates have more than 2,300 employees. PMI has been an entirely separate company from Altria and Philip Morris USA since 2008. PMI's affiliates first entered the U.S. market following the company's acquisition of Swedish Match in late 2022. Philip Morris International and its U.S. affiliates are working to deliver a smoke-free future. Since 2008, PMI has invested $12.5 billion globally to develop, scientifically substantiate, and commercialize innovative smoke-free products for adults who would otherwise continue to smoke with the goal of transitioning legal-age consumers who smoke to better alternatives. In 2022, PMI acquired Swedish Match – a leader in oral nicotine delivery – creating a global smoke-free champion led by the IQOS and ZYN brands. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized versions of PMI's IQOS electronically heated tobacco devices and Swedish Match's General snus as Modified Risk Tobacco Products and renewal applications for these products are presently pending before the FDA. For more information, please visit www.pmi.com/us and www.pmiscience.com. #PMIUS 28526