Veterinary Key Account

No Relocation Assistance Offered
131450 - Hout Bay, Western Cape, South Africa

We are Hill’s - a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for all people, their pets, and our planet. We are part of Colgate-Palmolive a leading global consumer products company with a portfolio in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition.

At Hill's we have a purpose Every day around the world, we transform the lives of millions of pet families through groundbreaking innovation, outstanding nutrition, and committed people.

Our strong culture of collaboration, diversity, sustainability and inclusion is rooted in our core values of Caring, Global Teamwork and Continuous Improvement. Employees are rewarded by rich career development and career experiences. We pride ourselves on our work life balance, our focus on delivering high ethical standards and our dedication to developing our employees. With many local benefits such as Summer Hours, Live Better activities, Product Parcels and Health Checks.
**ABOUT THE ROLE -**

In today's dynamic environment, it is an exciting time to be a part of our Customer Development team at Hill's Pet Nutrition. Our highly energetic and focused Customer Team is dedicated to driving growth for our company in this ever-changing landscape. What role will you play?

As the Veterinary Key Account & Distributor Manager, you have the responsibility to develop the business with some of our key customers in South Africa and the Distributors in our export markets.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES -**
- Drive support for Hill's with our key Veterinary clients. Establish positive relationships with key account personnel (Marketing, E-Commerce/Social/Digital, Finance, Supply Chain, CRM) to influence support of Hill's strategic goals. Strong leadership, a clear understanding of their business and foresight is required to engage customers with strategic plans.
- Prepare, negotiate and implement Joint Business Planning, marketing and promotional campaigns to drive demand. Forecast, develop, implement and supervise customer specific plans to achieve Hill's commercial goals of net sales, share, margin, within budget spend. Communicate plans to field teams for in-store support. Visit practices to better understand implementation challenges to optimize future approaches.
- Ensure post-evaluation of all promotional campaigns. Share findings, insight and recommendations.
- Optimize Key Account budget and all resources available
- Facilitate and lead functional commercial organization meetings to align priorities and secure execution of all Hill's initiatives.
- Lead our Distributors in the export markets. Establish trustful relationships and systems for support and control. Guide them in their efforts to develop the market for Hill’s. Prepare, negotiate and implement Distributor agreements.
- Prepare the entry into new markets after assessment of the environment, the regulation and potential distributors. Work with the commercial & support team to establish the best route to market and to set-up vital logistics & systems.
**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE -**
- A Bachelor's degree, a veterinary science or a business degree would be preferred.
- Minimum 2 years of Sales experience in FMCG, Pet Specialty or Pharmaceutical market
- Experience with working with Distributors outside of South Africa
- Ability to work with Google tools (sheets, slides, docs, etc)

Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law

Work that matters, fueled by passion for pets At Hill’s we have a purpose. Every day around the world, we transform the lives of millions of pet families through pioneering innovation, amazing nutrition, and the best and brightest people. Founded more than 75 years ago with an unwavering commitment to pet nutrition, Hills' mission is to help enrich and lengthen the special relationships between people and their pets.