Job Description

District Manager

Acosta is the leading North American integrated marketing and sales agency, specializing sales, training and experiential solutions. At Acosta, we are never satisfied with the status quo and are in constant search for new ideas and new ways to help our clients build their brands amidst the evolving dynamic of empowered consumers, leveraging new technologies and approaches. Together as a team we deliver for those results to our clients every day. Acosta is not about standing out from the crowd - we lead it!

We are currently looking for a District Manager, Quebec to join our shared retail selling team on the Campbells Soup & B&G portfolio. Responsibilities include managing and motivating a dedicated sales team to drive the most for our ROI; collaboratively working with our cleint team to support the sales in grocery accounts; track and monitor field sales team targets and identify opportunities; work with the SR Client Service Manager on programs, communication, directives, and targets.

This position will work from a home office and will require flexibility to travel between 50% and 75% within your district to conduct field visits and on occasion visit the client/Acosta headquarters or meet with retailers.

The District Manager will:

• Drive results for a shared selling team
• Be agile and flexible to respond to the business needs.
• Be Curious \xe2\x80\x93 always thinking about continuous improvements to support the growth of the business.
• Be Analytical \xe2\x80\x93 isolate data to find the opportunities and support the targeted results.
• Coach, train and motivate the team to sell cases, negotiate displays, secure shelf space for innovation.
• Bring field insights and competitive intelligence about what is happening in retail accounts.
• Roll up sleeves and help with retail display builds, mini resets.
• Monitor the KPIs and identify opportunities and call out wins.
• Support an assigned retail team in a defined region (interviewing, hiring, training, ongoing coaching)
• Regularly provides field insights and competitive intelligence to client and field teams for their district.
• Great relationship builder with Smucker associates, Acosta associates, store level associates.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of prior management experience in retail, merchandising, training, sales and/or field marketing.
• Previous experience in retail sales and merchandising management in Grocery & "big box" strongly preferred.
• Home office space with Internet connectivity required.
• Strong computer skills utilizing the internet, email and Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Natural ability to lead a team in a manner that will build team morale and accomplish objectives.
• Outgoing, professional personality with the ability to build relationships quickly.
• Self-motivated with strong organizational skills and the ability to work independently and with little supervision, while exercising ethical and professional business practices.
• Apprise supervisor of field issues on daily basis such as "red flag" issues, rep fall out and program issues using solution driven communication.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in French & English.
• Must have a valid driver\xe2\x80\x99s license.
• Willingness to travel within and outside your territory when required.

To Apply: Please send resumes to

Why Mosaic?

Consistently voted one of the best places to work, Mosaic North America gives you the opportunity to work with the world\xe2\x80\x99s most beloved brands that you know and use every day. Every employee is given the keys to charter new ground as they collectively live in the moment of building experiences together. We are a cast of diverse, yet like-minded individuals and we believe in taking risks, creating shared experiences not just for our clients, but for each other to guarantee we\xe2\x80\x99re making the next chapter of everyone\xe2\x80\x99s story the most memorable one yet.

DISCLAIMER: Acosta/ Mosaic North America is an Equal Opportunity Employer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Mosaic reserves the right to modify all or part of any job descriptions at its discretion in order to meet and or exceed the needs of the business.

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