Associate Manager, Sales Account Management - Grocery West

Associate Sales Manager For Grocery West

Join a purpose-driven team at SC Johnson Lifestyle Brands, home to beloved and innovative brands like Method, Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day, and ECOVER. We're on a mission to create products that are beautifully designed, sustainably made, and elevate everyday routines.

As the Associate Sales Manager for Grocery West, you'll be a key driver of growth across the Central and Western U.S., leading strategic customer relationships with top accounts including UNFI Conventional, Associated Wholesale Grocery, HyVee, ALDI, LIDL, and other national distributors and wholesalers.

In this dynamic role, you'll manage customer and broker partnerships, applying your expertise in assortment, merchandising, and promotional strategy to unlock new opportunities and expand our footprint. You'll also play a pivotal role in identifying and onboarding new business within the grocery channelboth directly and through distributor networks.

This is more than a sales roleit's an opportunity to shape the future of our grocery business while representing brands that consumers trust, love, and feel good about bringing into their homes.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, prioritize and manage multiple objectives, including top line sales, distribution, trade spend, promotional effectiveness, merchandising, and customer engagement
• Translate objectives for a portfolio of brands into key priorities for broker partners and can hold self and others accountable for results
• Collaborate and build a strong sense of teamwork externally with broker partners and customers by providing strong direction, guidance, follow up and feedback
• Build rapid, strong relationships based on credibility and trust across multiple layers of management; elevate presence within customer's hierarchy
• Manage trade system including spending within trade budget, assessing plan for effectiveness, and making appropriate adjustments to plans and system entries in Exceedra
• Deeply understand the strategic purpose of our brands as well as our customers' strategies to bridge and drive long term profitable growth for both parties
• Be the "voice of retailer" for planning new product launches and other ad hoc business developments as needed as well as drive a thoughtful and reliable SKU level forecast along with Finance and Operations

Required Experience You'll Bring

Preferred Experiences And Skills

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Benefits And Perks

At Lifestyle Brands, we handle our team members with care and provide a variety of benefit offerings to build a supportive environment at work and beyond.

Inclusion & Diversity

We believe that being a team of diverse people with different ideas, views and cultures will help us and our business thrive. We are committed to ensuring everyone who works at the LSB feels that they have a real sense of belonging and that they can show up as who they are, be valued, listened to and supported to do their best possible work.

Sure, there's always more that can be done. But together with our team, partners, customers and community, we can make everyone welcome.

Better Together

At SC Johnson, we strive to create a positive, inclusive and unique workplace. We strongly believe SCJ people are able to achieve their best when they can collaborate and work together in person.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The policy of the Company is to ensure equal opportunity for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, gender identity, gender expression, disability, citizenship, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in any active or reserve component of the U.S. or state military forces, genetic history or information or any other category protected by law.

Accommodation Requests

If you are an individual with a disability and you need an accommodation or other assistance during the application process, please call our Human Resources department at 262-260-3343 or email your request to SCJHR@scj.com. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. Download the EEO is the Law poster for more information.