Commercial Planning & Activation Manager
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Commercial Planning & Activation Manager at Essity focusing on customer execution and team alignment within B2B. Requires sales expertise and project management skills in a remote setting.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with Sales leadership to translate strategy into focused go to market execution with clear, actionable priorities for the field.
- Lead commercial activation by defining priorities and coordinating cross‑functional execution.
- Apply strong project management to drive initiatives end to end while balancing scope, timelines, and stakeholder needs.
- Analyze commercial performance to identify insights and outliers that improve sales effectiveness and decision making.
- Align cross functional teams to ensure consistent messaging, timing, and execution while resolving competing priorities or risks.
- Drive adoption and accountability through clear communications, executive summaries, and continuous improvement of planning and activation processes.
- Success in this role is reflected through strong cross functional alignment, improved sales focus, high initiative adoption, and consistent progress against growth objectives.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Business or Sales & Marketing preferred
- 5+ years' experience including a combination of field sales, sales operations, sales enablement, sales leadership/management, and/or Commercial Excellence roles.
- Experience working within large, matrixed organizations and working cross functionally with other functions
- Broad B2B industry experiences with distribution channels and field sales
- Excellent business acumen, strategic planning, analytical, communication, project management, and change management skills.
- Customer success obsession and a bold passion for working towards results and customer satisfaction
- Excellent communicator able to assemble and clearly articulate key strategies, plans and reports aligned to drive tangible business impact.
- Strong listening and facilitation skills
- Experience working CRM systems (i.e. Microsoft Dynamics) preferred as well as working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Proficient with corporate productivity and web presentation tools
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills, and strong listening and presentation skills
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and manage time effectively to drive for results and sense of urgency
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships on all levels
- Strong organizational & collaborative skills and ability to work virtually with customers and internal teams.
- Sound business acumen and sales financial understanding with ability to solve for customer needs
- Ability to travel up to 20-25% domestic travel.
Benefits:
- United Healthcare PPO / EyeMed Vision Insurance / Delta Dental Insurance
- Wellness program provided through Rally Healthcare and Dependent Care
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- 401(k) with employer match and annual employer base contribution
- Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- PTO offering with Paid Holidays
- Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance
- Employee discounts program
- Scholarship program for children of Essity employees.
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