Area Sales Manager

**_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 **across our Corporate Channel. 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 and Inner Suburbs territory.**
- 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 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.**

**About You**:
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.

You're also a university graduate with a degree in sales, or a related area, and have at least 5 years of continuous work experience. You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we're constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results.

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.

As the successful applicant you will ideally have experience within FMCG as a Sales Representative or experience at Store Level across the Grocery Channel. i.e. Coles, Woolworths. You will thrive working in a consumer focused fast paced, high performing and dynamic environment. Additionally, you will have the following experience and attributes:

- Proven experience within the Grocery channel will be desirable
- Field sales experience in the FMCG industry will also be highly regarded and ability to work autonomously with excellent time management skills
- Self-starter, proactive and resilient and excellent communication, and relationship building skills essential
- You will have sound analytical skills as well as a current driver's license
- Being a customer facing role, as requirement set out by our customers you will be fully vaccinated.
- You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we're constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. 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.
- Strong analytics, able to stand back and evaluate data, a rigorous and creative approa