Area Sales Manager

**Your Job**

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In your sales role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. **It starts with YOU.**

We have a great career opportunity available to join our Consumer Sales Field team as an **Area Sales Manager **in our QLD Grocery team. This will be a fantastic opportunity for you to gain great exposure and build your fundamental sales skills across the world of Kimberly-Clark.

Reporting into the Regional Sales Manager, you will work autonomously whilst managing your territory with support from the leadership team. You will be responsible for promoting and developing Kimberly-Clark's consumer brands and products across all categories to key customer accounts within our Grocery Channels. As one of our Area Sales Managers, you'll take on this front-line Sales territory management role as the face of Kimberly-Clark in the market. The role will cover **Brisbane West to Toowoomba, **including key client locations across The Gap, Ashgrove, Ipswich and Indooroopilly.
- Develop and implement successful customer specific business plans, to ensure targets are met for all product categories.
- 'Build Trust' with key customers (both internal and external), as you develop and maintain strong, effective working relationships.
- Analyze store sales results to identify areas of opportunities that will assist in achieving your set sales budget.
- Demonstrate a strong understanding within the market of your local territory to assist the development of tactical and strategic sales plans.
- Establish and maintain accurate customer records through the use of digital tools.

**About You**

The successful applicant will ideally have experience as a Grocery or Store Manager level within FMCG Grocery, or as a Sales Representative for well known FMCG brands. You will thrive working in a consumer focused fast paced, high performing and dynamic environment. Additionally, you will have the following experience and attributes:

- Self-starter, proactive and resilient and excellent communication, and relationship building skills essential, and a current driver’s license
- Strong analytics, able to stand back and evaluate data, a rigorous and creative approach to problem solving. Has the capability to transform it into actionable strategy which is measurable.
- Strong appreciation of the importance of NPD and innovation to the ongoing development of a progressive brand led organization, with experience of successful NPD sales launches.
- Experience of working in partnership with Marketing and NPD as part of a Commercial Team which is financially disciplined for profit achievement.

You’re driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

**About Us**

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth, and impact. We’re founded on 151 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform - so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

**Led by Purpose. Driven by You.**

**Total Benefits**

Here are just a few of the benefits you’ll enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark:

- Competitive salary and incentives: We offer a competitive salary and a range of incentives, including bonus opportunities, and flexible work options.
- Fantastic range of benefits: Our benefits package is second to none, with everything from life insurance, dental & vision care, employee assistance program, paid time off, well-being activities, and more.
- A culture of caring: We believe that a happy and healthy workforce is a productive workforce, so we offer a variety of programs and resources to support our employees'