Vice President Global Clients (Retail/CPG industry)

Discover an Exciting New Opportunity with Advantage:

Vice President Global Clients (Retail)

Join us on our purpose — to help people and organizations work better together

Advantage Group International provides over 2,300 organizations across 45 countries with the data and insights needed to work better together with their business partners. As the global leader in business-to-business engagement solutions, Advantage Group uses tested research techniques, cutting-edge technology and feedback accumulated from 53,000 respondents annually to empower supplier and retailer organizations in the FMCG sector to develop more meaningful and rewarding business relationships.

Leading companies across the globe, including Coca-Cola, Goodyear, L’Oreal, Woolworths, Aldi, Mars and Mondelez International, rely on Advantage Group to strengthen their business relationships. Learn more about what our clients think: https://www.advantagegroup.com/client-testimonials/.

How you can help people and organizations work better together:

Reporting to our Chief Global Customer Officer the successful candidate ideally holds proven experience in Retail organizations or Managing Retail relationships successfully. The ideal candidate will have experience preferably in a combination of CPG and Retail, with a history using data-led insights and advisory capabilities to drive retail engagement, retail acquisition and retail investment across our services and products. Experience in sales and client management in the services industries is also viewed as an asset.

As part of this role, you will:

Provide organizational, sales and client service leadership for the Advantage Global business. Specific responsibilities include:

• Have a critical eye to diagnose and identify key opportunities to accelerate the Retail Business
• Design and execute Global Strategies to drive Retail Retention, Acquisition and Revenue
• Demonstrate energy and focus to promote change, working closely across appropriate functions of our and client’s business to meet the needs of your Retail clients and in developing client service and product proposals.
• Build strong business relationships with our Global Retail clients ensuring that they are gaining value and insights from our work with them and that you strengthen their advocacy for Advantage.
• Achieve sales and profit goals of Retail client portfolio and meet new business development targets
• Work closely with the Commercial, Market and Finance teams to ensure alignment to business strategy and processes including meeting all targets and requirements for financial reporting – budgets, forecast estimates for clients across global and local investments
• Exercise strong business acumen and negotiation skills to achieve win-win agreements with our Retail clients.
• Provide leadership to and support Market leaders on developing and nurturing the collaboration with Retail clients at country level
• As a thought leader, help to enhance the Advantage brand within the Retail community through keynote presentations, conference/association participation, white papers, published articles, and other similar efforts
  
  

• To client offices for presentations and meetings (more in the second half of the calendar year)
• Occasionally to Toronto Office
• Relevant conferences or industry events
  
  

• Expertise in the CPG Retail environment
• Strong network of global contacts amongst Retailer (with CPG exposure)
• A strong client-service and business development orientation
• Practical understanding of market research principles / concepts as well of Advantage Products
• An ability to manage complex consulting projects
• Strong English written and oral communication skills at top management level, specially in a virtual environment
• Ability to digest insight from data and create story-telling style presentations
• Hands on the job, strong willingness to build a greater business and make it happen
• Ability to work independently and an entrepreneurial mindset a positive attitude, respectful of a corporate environment and team building, zest for learning and always seeking innovations and efficiencies
• An ability to create and foster strong inter-departmental communications advocating for retail clients’ interest
• Good listening skills, be obsessed on knowing and understanding client needs
• Strong sense of urgency
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Executive

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Business Development

• Industries

  Internet Publishing

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