Business Development Manager - Walgreens

Business Development Manager - Walgreens

Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional® At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. 

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 this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU. 

As the Business Development Manager (BDM) Walgreens - BCC, you are responsible for strategically executing joint business planning with the customer category managers and other key customer stakeholders to drive volume and profit growth for K-C categories.

Your primary responsibilities will be to implement K-C brand strategies and tactics to drive sales, share, build and manage customer relationships, collaborate with category management, and lead business planning and trade management strategies by utilizing cross-functional resources and data sources.

About You

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.

Job responsibilities include:


* Delivering Net Sales, Contribution, Category Share, and DPSM Objectives for assigned customer team and BU(s)


* Adhere to Trade Promotion and dead net pricing guidelines


* Achieve JBP goals that are mutually agreed upon with assigned customer


* Collaboratively build and execute the Customer Business Plan, inclusive of
+ Engage Customer in Joint Business Planning to gain alignment to plans
+ Manage Delivery of Plan and Business Objectives


* A general understanding of marketing place dynamics in class trade strategies


* Strategically analyzing and interpreting customer trends and demographic data.

Project short-term forecasts out 2-3 years to ensure K-C’s action plans meet future demands


* Performing strategic analyses, and crafting strategic business presentations tailored to achieve realistic customer performance, and support K-C's planning process


* Directly managing customer accounts and act as K-C representative at all customer meetings


* Serving as liaison between the customer, team counterparts and internal support team members to foster culture of growth and collaborations

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:


* Bachelor’s degree


* 5+ years progressive exempt status experience in business (international business, if applicable), customer management and customer development or equivalent in other busin...