National Account Manager, Walmart
MGA Entertainment Bentonville, AR
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MGA Entertainment is one of the largest and fastest growing privately held toy and entertainment companies in the world. Headquartered in Los Angeles, and with offices globally, the company creates innovative, proprietary, and licensed consumer products and entertainment properties, including toys, games, dolls, apparel, consumer electronics, home décor, stationery, sporting goods, movies, and television series. The MGA family includes award-winning brands such as L.O.L. Surprise!™ , Little Tikes ®, Rainbow High™ , Shadow High™, Bratz®, MGA’s Miniverse™ , Fluffie Stuffiez™ , Na! Na! Na! Surprise™ , Micro Games of America™, Baby born® Surprise and Zapf Creation® . For more information, please visit us at www.mgae.com or check us out at LinkedIn, Twitter , Instagram and Facebook .
Mission: Maximize sales, profitability and promotional activity within corporate margin expectations.
Key Area and ResultsTime UtilizationAccount Management & Development
30%
Collaborative Forecasting/Planning
30%
Analysis (POS, Competition, Adjacent Opportunities)
30%
Communication
10%
TOTAL TIME UTILIZATION
100%
Education/ExperiencePosition Requirements
- 7+ years or more of sales management/sales experience within the toy industry.
- Superior relationships with retailer management, buyers, marketing managers, replenishment & planning personnel.
- A proven track record of building sales and profitability in a competitive business environment.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or Marketing is required. (Master’s Degree preferred).
Skills/Knowledge/Ability
- Possess elevated financial acumen - Margin/Forecast Planning/ Budget Management.
- Excellent strategic and disciplined planning skills.
- Well-developed sales, people, communication, administration, sales policy, planning and leadership skills.
- Ability to think on your feet and contingency plan.
- Formal knowledge customers’ communicative/administrative/planning tools i.e.: VDP & EDQ/ Retail Link.
- Ability to travel.
- Knowledge of LC (FOB) and Domestic shipping procedures.
- Solid computer skills (Microsoft office – Excel, Word, PPT).
Key Result Areas and Activities Account Management & DevelopmentCreate rapport with the retailer’s entire buying team, including all executives, buyers, planners, and replenishment team.
Work with buying teams to understand their needs, performance metrics, time tables, etc.
Respond or acknowledge all customer requests in timely manner.
Be the expert on the products, categories, and competition in and outside your areas of responsibilities.
Manage day to day service issues between MGA marketing, product, customer marketing, and retailer buying teams.
Collaborative Forecasting/PlanningEstablish and present timelines for line reviews, item conformation time lines, "set" and other relevant dates.
A bottom-up (item level) forecasts must be built in adherence to Global Forecast time line.
Collaborative base-line and promotional forecast must be executed with all buyers.
Seasonal Business Plans for each buyer (per category/brand) will be created. Elements of this plan will consist of the following: SAP Plan, confirmed promotional activities (ads, end caps, shelf space, other feature space, catalog, POP Signage etc.).
Review Business Plans (SAP/Promotional Plan/Forecasts) with each buyer on a monthly basis. Adjust and communicate all adjustments to SVP Sales/Marketing/and MGA Supply Chain.
Analysis (POS, Competition, Opportunities)Must analyze POS data on a weekly basis. Look for trends, planned promotional lifts and outcomes, competitive challenges, etc. - and incorporate details with each buyer in the same Monthly Business Plan meeting.
Be in front of “Early Reads” - anticipating challenges to first of season POS.
Communication/MeetingsProvide weekly updates by Buyer - State of business/New initiatives, placement/promotional updates etc. - Recipients: SVP Sales.
Follow through recaps of buyer meetings (in season and placement feedback/conformation).
Must shop top four toy retailer stores every two weeks.
Will participate in all National Sales and Show meetings/events.
Post Line Show Meeting: Provide detailed responses to product offerings to SVP Sales/Marketing/President.
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level -
Employment type
Temporary -
Job function
Sales and Business Development -
Industries
Consumer Goods
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