Sales Growth Manager

Summary

Advantage Solutions is a sales and marketing agency providing outsourced sales, merchandising, category management, and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers, and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Sales Growth Manager represents clients in headquarters sales, promotional planning, and trade show activities, while coordinating retailer requirements, executing sales programs, and identifying growth opportunities across an assigned geography.

Responsibilities

• Explains cost of entry, logistics, and basic requirements for doing business with retailers
• Manages client and customer expectations to ensure smooth execution
• Executes promotional planning, new item submissions, and account-level sales plans
• Provides account-level return on investment recommendations to maximize trade spend
• Advises clients on product positioning, pricing, and promotions within assigned accounts
• Builds strong relationships with retailers and clients
• Uses task management tools to stay organized and communicate effectively
• Represents client brands at local trade events, store visits, and retailer sales pitches, driving distribution gains and incremental product placements at the store and territory level

Skills

• Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree
• Experience Requirements: 4-6 years experience in relevant field
• Understanding of retailer distribution networks, margin requirements, and promotional mechanics
• Ability to apply sales data and customer feedback to identify tactical growth opportunities
• Experience selling into retailers or possessing in-depth retailer buying knowledge
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills to manage a high client load and multi-retailer coverage
• May be required to travel around 25%
• Incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of the job. Work is performed primarily in an office environment. Typically, requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time (66%+ each day), ability to hear telephone, ability to enter data on a computer and may require the ability to lift up to 10lbs

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree
• Experience Requirements: 4-6 years experience in relevant field
• Understanding of retailer distribution networks, margin requirements, and promotional mechanics
• Ability to apply sales data and customer feedback to identify tactical growth opportunities
• Experience selling into retailers or possessing in-depth retailer buying knowledge
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills to manage a high client load and multi-retailer coverage
• May be required to travel around 25%
• Incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of the job. Work is performed primarily in an office environment. Typically, requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time (66%+ each day), ability to hear telephone, ability to enter data on a computer and may require the ability to lift up to 10lbs

Benefits

• Remote work arrangement
• Opportunities to expand analytical capability, strategic influence, and retailer coverage as part of a defined progression path