Account Manager

The purpose of this role is to proactively develop and implement strategic sourcing strategies in prizing, capital and expense categories, in addition to serving as the lead for category sourcing initiatives and ongoing contract and supplier relationship management. Responsibilities include providing guidance to, and leading the negotiations on, master agreements and highly complex supply and service agreements and the development of a Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) programme for strategic suppliers.

If you are someone who cannavigate commercial conversations confidently, manage complex marketing execution, build trusted client relationships, and deliver projects with high operational excellence, this might be the right role for you!

Key responsibilities:

• Creates and executes rewards catalogue purchasing plans for current and incoming loyalty programmes
• Revises rewards catalogue purchasing plan as appropriate to meet changing brand needs and requirements
• Assesses rewards catalogue performance on an ongoing basis to ensure costs are aligned with budget
• Creates and maintains rewards cost forecast that is updated and reviewed on a monthly basis
• Collaborates with internal teams to solicit bids and analyses supplier quotes and services where appropriate

Requirements/Skills

• 6-10 years of experience in Account Management, Client Services, or Marketing Production.
• Commercially savvy with experience managing budgets, pricing, margins, and scope management.
• Consultative; able to recommend solutions rather than simply execute client requests (proactively recommend a better way to achieve your objective while reducing cost and improving speed)
• Hands-on experience managing production, POSM, retail activation, packaging, creative adaptation, or integrated marketing execution.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, comfortable working with clients, vendors, procurement, and internal teams.