Key Account Manager (m/f/d)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Hamburg

Your mission
  • Strategically manages allocated accounts, budget and resources provided, yielding maximum effectiveness and impact

  • Works closely with the Sales Lead Manager and other internal stakeholders on development of business and portfolio strategies, yearly budgets and quarterly projections, trade terms, price structures, profit margins

  • Develop a strong relationship with customers and understand what drives their decision making process

  • Facilitate account management by coordinating selling activities and customer interactions through effective leadership and communication with other areas to ensure appropriate customers’ needs are met

  • Ensure the execution of account plans including volume, promotional activity, visibility, logistics and financial information along with KPIs for measuring results

  • Negotiate and close annual and seasonal commercial agreements with account

  • Work closely with Finance to manage annual budgets

  • Provides strong leadership skills and direction to Junior Account Manager and Field Sales Representatives

  • Supports the company’s sales planning, controlling of discounts spending and sales results, reporting and budgeting requirements and processes

Your profile
  • Key Account Management experience from the FMCG or CPG industry with experience managing national customers

  • Fluent in English and German

  • People management experience preferred

  • Proven ability to build and establish an effective network and relationships

  • Significant, progressive sales experience covering a range of wholesale and retail environments, ability to quickly reduce customer and channel needs as well as the ability to unlock insights from data and use them to drive growth

  • Depth of experience in customer negotiations and sound knowledge of German retail environment

  • Self-starter with proven ability to identify issues and projects, plan and prioritize with demonstrated ability to organize and manage multiple projects to completion by specific deadlines

  • Strong Business Acumen

Our Benefits:
  • Dynamic and diverse mission-driven team from 20+ different countries

  • A fast growing company with opportunities for personal development

  • Flexible working hours in an innovative and agile working environment

  • Flat hierarchies and short decision paths

  • Great team events

  • Drinks and fresh fruit at the office

  • Language classes

  • Lastly, join us in the journey as we change the food system as we know it!

About us

Infinite Roots® (formerly Mushlabs) is a biotech company from Hamburg, Germany. We tackle one of the world’s biggest challenges with a single, microscopic solution: Mycelium. Our team of 60+ people from 25 different nationalities, 55% female and with 10 PhDs, has one mission: to cultivate food in a way that sustains our planet and its growing population. 

We are a diverse team of scientists, industry experts, and business evangelists. We love what we do and enjoy working in a high growth and ambitious environment. We move fast and hire great people to take on exciting responsibilities. Join us if you are looking for a great opportunity to learn, grow, and have fun while changing the future of food.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!
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