Account Manager ( Minneapolis, MN)

Our client is a retail service organization providing sales, strategy, and analytics to their retail partners. Retail is their passion and is the driving force behind our success.

They take pride in their culture being driven by the one voice, one team mission. They value every team member and believe every person is a contributor to their one team mission, their community, and their success.

They get asked often what their culture is like and their answer is simple… they believe in work hard, play hard. Their industry is fast-paced and demanding, so having a team that brings diversity and collaboration at the same time is imperative. They believe in passion for what they do, high service integrity for their vendor partners, and development, knowledge sharing, and career growth for their team.

They are currently seeking a Maternity Leave coverage Account Manager.

There is a potential for this temporary position to be hired as full-time at the end of the term.

Hybrid schedule is Tuesday-Thursday in-office, and Monday & Friday remote

• Office Location: Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Act as a liaison between our partners and Target, ensuring first class communication

• Lead performance analytics and action needs for a successful BU team

• Communicate weekly reports with insights to manufacturer partners
• Communicate weekly sales reports with insights & trends with BA to Target
• Drive ongoing vendor analysis on assortment performance and suggest/execute ideation, improvement, or trends that lead to business growth
• Key time frame and key project initiative analysis
• Objective and goals analysis and reporting

• Lead process on all new vendor set-up on behalf of our partners with BA

• Immediately raising awareness of on boarding concerns
• Adjusting service value to level of expertise needed by vendor
• Incudes factory onboarding and expertise of proactive leadership with our vendors to streamline the process for BIC to Target

• Drive pdd process from factory onboarding support to development in miro/spark to negotiation/pcn support of sales strategies

• Be Time And Action lead

• Lead sales influence and initiatives

• Bridge the goals and objectives of all manufacturers with analytical support/validation, ideation, and action
• Working with Sales Strategist and creative team to build merchandising solutions and promotional ideas for our vendor partners, and to present visual and analytical influence to Target
• Work with your Sales Strategist on executing the multi-channel strategy
• Lead process of promotional and owned brand calendars with BA
• Manage special projects and/or deep dive projects to support goals and growth of partners
• Lead line review process for all manufacturers in portfolio

• Lead account management every day operations/supply chain

• Manage all skus and lead forecasting, inventory flow and reporting efforts with BA
• Reconcile purchase orders for accuracy and invoicing purposes
• Initiate Comp shopping and competitive analysis, bringing insights and recommendations

• Ensure delivery of creative assets to vendor and/or Target

• Be the Lead problem solver & go-to expert for manufacturing and internal partners

• Mentor BA in their support role

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience as a retail account manager or business analyst working with Target.
• Strong understanding of Target systems including POL & VIQ
• High Energy, Driven, Positive Attitude
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint Skills
• Understand industry trends and application to business planning
• Ability to multi-task across multiple lines and daily tasks