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Performs outside sales across an assigned route of retail accounts, managing customer relationships and increasing product sales, inventory, cooler space, displays, distribution, and merchandising compliance. The role evaluates competitors, meets sales and execution goals, maintains Red Bull equipment and product freshness, transports inventory and advertising materials, and collaborates with peers. A valid driver’s license, DOT medical card, minimum age of 21, and ability to lift up to 25 pounds are required.

Training role preparing employees for Account Sales Manager positions. Supports sales initiatives, customer relationships, route coverage, merchandising, displays, audits, pricing, distribution, and brand execution across off-premise retail accounts. Responsibilities include meeting sales and merchandising KPIs, assisting account managers, building displays, and safely transporting inventory and advertising materials. Requires a valid U.S. driver’s license, DOT medical card, age 21 or older, and ability to lift up to 25 pounds.

Training role preparing employees for Account Sales Manager positions. Supports sales initiatives, covers ASM routes, maintains customer relationships, executes merchandising and displays, meets sales and distribution KPIs, and protects brand standards across off-premise retail customers. Requires safe, professional customer service, daily coordination with management, physical inventory handling, a valid driver’s license, and a DOT Medical card.

Leads global strategy development and deployment for Mars Snacking, including strategy refresh, growth opportunity tracking, competitive intelligence, geographic expansion, licensing, and regional localization. The role drives complex cross-functional projects, develops business recommendations through data analysis, communicates insights to senior executives and the Board, and supports organizational capability building and talent development.

Leads strategic revenue management for Mars’ Better For You portfolio, developing pricing, promotion, price-pack architecture, and product-mix strategies. Analyzes shopper, consumer, retailer, syndicated, and macroeconomic data to identify growth opportunities and optimize profitability. Establishes pricing and trade investment guardrails, partners with Sales, Finance, Marketing, and Business Planning, and influences internal and external stakeholders through actionable insights, presentations, and recommendations.

Own the Sales technology strategy, roadmap, operating model, and lifecycle for Salesforce Trade Promotion Management and Retail Execution platforms. Translate commercial goals into technical requirements, coordinate global and local teams, configure and prototype solutions, test workflows, troubleshoot integrations, and deploy analytics and commerce tools. The role requires hands-on technical leadership across SalesTech, customer planning, commercial operations, and rapid brand integration.

Owns enterprise Palantir Foundry and AIP platform engineering and operations, including administration, DevSecOps, IAM/RBAC, observability, integrations, ontology governance, FinOps, reliability, incident response, and production support. Partners with delivery teams through deployment and stabilization, establishes engineering and governance standards, leads vendor engineers, manages escalations, and develops reusable platform patterns, documentation, and enablement practices.

The Business Account Manager develops and executes strategic business plans for retailer and wholesaler accounts. Responsibilities include managing forecasts, trade funds, distribution, merchandising targets, promotional strategies, innovation, and financial analysis. The role partners with customer managers, broker teams, insights, planning, and channel teams to improve business outcomes, deliver reviews, and maintain client plans in the trade planning system. It requires at least three years of sales or marketing experience with major chain customers and involves 30–50% travel.

Own and grow the assigned Great Lakes territory through prospecting, pipeline management, customer relationship development, equipment sales, renewals, site visits, quoting, negotiation, and closing. The role requires maintaining accurate Salesforce forecasts, identifying expansion opportunities, managing aging opportunities, and traveling up to 75% throughout the territory.

Manage and grow relationships with key accounts by serving as the primary client contact, understanding business needs, delivering tailored solutions, identifying upsell and cross-sell opportunities, coordinating internal teams, monitoring KPIs, resolving issues, negotiating contracts and pricing, and maintaining customer satisfaction.

Manages high-volume customer documentation requests, coordinates with suppliers and internal teams, verifies document accuracy and completeness, maintains records and tracking logs, and provides customer updates. Supports data entry, reporting, audits, sample requests, administrative tasks, and process improvements while using TraceGains, Sage, Excel, and other office and ERP systems.

Leads global sales operations and excellence strategy, governance, forecasting, pipeline management, CRM adoption, analytics, territory planning, quota setting, and incentive design. Partners with regional leaders to standardize processes while supporting local execution. Assesses sales capabilities, identifies skill gaps, and oversees targeted training and development programs. Coordinates cross-functional initiatives with Finance, Marketing, and HR to improve sales performance, operational efficiency, customer experience, and measurable business results.

Coordinates marketing initiatives, customer requests, sales support, product information, events, promotions, content, packaging, and commercialization projects. Maintains Salesforce data, distributor stocking matrices, customer and item records, project trackers, and customer-facing materials. Facilitates communication across Sales, Marketing, Operations, customers, and quality teams while tracking issues, approvals, deadlines, and follow-up activities through resolution.

Leads strategic relationships with national and multi-location customers, driving profitable growth, retention, account expansion, and market penetration. Responsibilities include strategic account planning, complex contract and supply agreement negotiations, executive relationship management, cross-functional leadership, business development, and providing customer and market insights. The role requires extensive national account or commercial sales experience in manufacturing and packaging.

Lead executive and strategic hiring searches from intake through offer, partnering with C-suite and senior leaders. Source passive candidates, manage market mapping, design interview processes, assess leadership fit, negotiate senior offers including equity, and maintain accurate Workday records. The role also establishes an executive search playbook and advises leadership on talent markets, compensation, and hiring strategy.