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Key Account Manager
Location
Florida
Posted
77 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Key Account Manager
adidas
• Guide the product and brand strategy for key categories within Champs Sports • Collaborate with merchandising, retail activation, and cross‑functional partners to deliver profitable, sustainable growth • Use business acumen and retail math expertise to manage top‑ and bottom‑line results and identify opportunities to strengthen account performance • Build data‑based sales plans aligned to brand direction, category goals, and buyer insights to support long‑term success • Partner with marketing, retail activation, and merchandising teams to deliver programs that support strong consumer engagement and sell‑through • Cultivate collaborative relationships with internal and external partners to ensure aligned execution, communication, and business planning • Deliver accurate reporting and forecasting, resolve compliance and credit issues, and manage account‑related processes with consistency and clarity
Job Requirements
- Four‑year degree in Business, Marketing, Advertising, or related field
- Minimum of eight years of field sales experience, ideally with key accounts in consumer goods or sporting goods
- Ability to travel up to 50 percent
- Ability to lift and carry samples up to 25 lbs
Benefits
- robust and progressive medical, including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options
- dental
- vision
- prescription drug coverage
- adoption, with surrogate and fertility support
- short and long-term disability
- basic life and AD&D insurance, which can be supplemented with employee-paid coverage
- enrollment in adidas’ 401k plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match
- education assistance
- generous Leave policies including 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- annual and bi-annual bonuses based on hitting sales targets
- accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount .4388 hours per day that increases with years of service
- eleven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- Service Time Off during milestone years
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