Minneapolis, Minnesota
Account Manager Job Opening in Minneapolis, Minnesota - What you?ll do
As a Retail Account Manager, you will be responsible for driving profitable business partnerships and inventory management strategies between Tier 1 Retailers and our vendor partners through forecasting, analytics, inventory flow optimization and effective communication.
How you?ll do it
Build strong relationships with both our vendors? operations teams and our Retail Partner?s merchandise planning teams
Use historical sales analysis and industry trends to accurately forecast future demand on a sku and program level.
Meet with Retailer?s Inventory Planning teams to review forecast roll-ups on a monthly basis and provide feedback with detailed analysis
Drive supply chain initiatives to improve on time/ right quantity delivery
Monitor in-stock needs and provide a proactive strategy to solve the stock problem
Analyze vendor performance metrics and identify issues and root-causes, ultimately solving vendor performance issues or problems
Monitor customer purchase orders
Create and maintain new items in Retailer?s system
Pull and analyze weekly POS reports highlighting insights and trends
Maintain accurate records regarding program agreements, pricing, product information, order status, planning issues and vendor set-ups
Ensure that the internal accounting system is up-to-date with accurate shipping and invoicing information for cash flow purposes
Work closely with other Retail Account Managers in complex problem solving, and best practice creation
Educate vendors on Retailer and the processes used (planograms, advertising, shipping, item set up, etc)
What you?ll need
Ability to analyze data, identify issues and make recommendations
Clear and effective communication skills both verbally (confident) and written (concise)
Strong initiative and the ability to work independently with little supervision
Effective organization skills and the ability to multi-task
Working knowledge of Tier 1 Retailer?s internal item and inventory management systems is a plus
Functional knowledge of MS Excel (sorting/grouping data, pivot tables, v lookups, etc)
What you?ve done
Four year college degree preferred
Two+ years of experience working with Best Buy or Target with at least one of those years in demand planning preferred
Delivered results while improving and streamlining processes to be more efficient and profitable
Where you?ll do it
CITIES Market Studios is a full spectrum retail services provider defined by market-leading experts, robust capabilities, infrastructure, analytics and relationships at tier-one retail.
We are comprised of retail experts with experience in all aspects of sales and sales support, merchandising, product development, marketing, multi-channel strategy, pricing and brand growth.
CITIES has offices located in Minnetonka and Downtown Minneapolis.
Job Type: Full-time
Job Location:
Minneapolis, MN
Required education:
Bachelor's
Required experience:
working with Best Buy or Target, preferably in demand planning: 1 year
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