Market Development Manager- Chicago, IL

Unilever

1d•$86,080 - $129,120•Remote

About The Position

Market Development Manager Location: Chicago. IL Who We Are Unilever Food Solutions (UFS) is the €3bn+ foodservice division of Unilever. It leads the dynamic Food Service market across its categories and has ambitious growth objectives, marketing a range of professional food and beverage products and services to operators across 72 countries. UFS prides itself on creating value for its customers through culinary solutions and improving the food experience for everyone from distributors and operators to diners and consumers. UFS is accelerating its digital transformation to fuel growth through data driven and technology enabled Go-to-Market (GtM) capabilities. Our global ambition is to reach 3 million operators by 2030 via an online & off-line contact strategy. Within the US, the focus of UFS Customer Development and Marketing is to engage with customers in unique and specific ways to generate demand for our professional brands and create long term value for our partners. Purpose of the Role The Market Development Manager will lead CD resources within the defined city to achieve growth targets by guiding the team to leverage quarterly operator and distributor initiatives to grow with existing restaurant operators and expand reach to new restaurant operators. This role will require development and execution of annual plans aligned to both the strategic agendas of key accounts and UFS.

Requirements

You’re a born leader: You will deliver the region’s sales activity plans.
You’re a strategy guru: You will develop local plan aligned to 2020 Strategy; You will create Join Business Plans with strategic accounts and have full activity planning and execution responsibility.
You love to win, and have fun doing it: You will be evaluated against team’s annual incremental sales aligned to operating plan; Team’s annual / quarterly execution targets; Team’s specific customer acquisition targets
You’re a teacher: You will coach and develop the CD team to achieve results and build talent for future leadership roles; You will build a foundation in appropriate district for long term profitable growth; You will drive the team to deliver highly active market presence by achieving calls per week.

Responsibilities

Leading, coaching and developing CD team within geography
Strategically targeting and executing new business prospects (Operator, 70% of time and Distributor, 30% of time)
Full execution of UFS Annual Operating Plan and quarterly initiatives
Lead and train team to expand reach to Regional Restaurant Chains (2-39 units), commissaries and healthcare accounts
Cultivating relationships with distributors to better promote Unilever Food Solution’s products
Lead and train team to partner with restaurant executives and chefs to develop and grow their business
Lead and train team to partner with Distributor to accelerate their market growth through training & collaborating with their Sales teams and executing marketing programs.
Manage Trade funds’ investments (Distributor Marketing Programs & Operator Purchase Programs)