Vice President – National Accounts Off-Premise

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Vice President leading Heaven Hill’s national off-premise retail account organization. Driving customer strategy, joint business planning, and growth with major U.S. retailers.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and lead a best-in-class Off-Premise National Account organization
  • Drive disproportionate growth with strategically important retail customers
  • Establish customer strategy, talent, account coverage, Joint Business Planning discipline, and senior-level customer relationships
  • Set the overall Off-Premise National Account agenda and account segmentation
  • Determine resource investment and set account-specific growth expectations and priorities
  • Translate company, portfolio, and Power Brand strategies into customer-specific strategies
  • Establish channel strategies across grocery, mass, club, liquor, convenience, and other priority classes of trade
  • Identify customer and channel white-space opportunities
  • Lead, coach, and develop the Off-Premise National Account team
  • Establish performance expectations, succession plans, and a high-performance culture
  • Own enterprise-to-enterprise relationships with strategic retail accounts
  • Develop C-suite, SVP, and VP-level relationships with priority customers
  • Lead major customer negotiations and engage personally on escalated relationships or growth opportunities
  • Position Heaven Hill as a strategic growth partner
  • Establish Strategic Customer Management methodology and enforce JBP standards
  • Develop customer-specific growth hypotheses and integrate category, consumer, shopper, and financial insights
  • Lead executive customer reviews and quarterly account performance reviews
  • Ensure plans translate into measurable field-level execution
  • Coordinate Category Management, RGM, Customer Marketing, Insights/Analytics, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, and Field Sales around customer opportunities
  • Align distributor strategy, field coordination, and commercial functions to customer priorities and timing

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Marketing or related field
  • Minimum 15 years of progressive commercial leadership experience in alcohol beverage
  • CPG experience with three-tier understanding preferred
  • Minimum 8 years working with major national/regional Off-Premise customers
  • Direct experience with multiple major classes of trade: mass, club, grocery, liquor, and/or convenience
  • Previous leadership of a National Accounts team
  • Demonstrated JBP experience with sophisticated retailers
  • Demonstrated experience building or transforming a customer organization
  • Strong experience with syndicated data (Circana/Nielsen) and retailer data platforms
  • Proven talent development track record
  • Valid Driver's License
  • Practical experience with retailer data, profitability, RGM, assortment, velocity, and opportunity analysis (valued but not required)
  • Understanding of customer P&Ls, trade economics, pricing, mix, margin, and ROI (valued but not required)
  • Ability to travel nationally up to 50%
  • Ability to stand, walk, use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, use a computer, and reach with hands and arms
  • Ability to occasionally lift up to 25 pounds

Benefits:

  • Paid Vacation
  • 11 Paid Holidays
  • Health, Dental & Vision eligibility from day one
  • FSA/HSA
  • 401K match
  • EAP
  • Maternity/Paternity Leave