Job description

Area manager

Job Description

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. 

Working as the Area Manager for the North East region with responsibility to profitably grow the Kimberly-Clark Professional business via our network of distributors and customers within sectors such as healthcare, large offices, food processing and manufacturing. Whilst there is a large existing customer base, the individual is also expected to find and grow new business.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a large multi-national business and develop yourself for the future. For the right individual, delivering results in the right way, there will also be the opportunity to progress within the Kimberly-Clark organisation.

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

The individual must be able to demonstrate an ability to deliver an exceptional customer experience. They also need to show they are a great team player whilst taking full personal responsibility for delivering high performance and overachieving targets.

We are looking for good analytical skills, flexibility, and a desire to go the extra mile. Ultimately, we are looking for that real winning mind-set.

You deliver on relevant Net Sales, Operating Profit and other key KPI’s such as New Business and customer loyalty metrics.
You build effective relationships with customers within the geographical area focusing on (for example) owners, managers, distributor sales representatives, logistics managers, purchasing teams, ecommerce, and infection prevention contacts.
You build relevant customer plans to ensure activities and targets are constantly delivered on time.
You prepare pricing / tender quotations using the internal revenue analytics process.
Manage customer receivables – ‘it’s not sold until it’s paid for.
You represent Kimberly-Clark Professional at customer functions, exhibitions and cleaning association meetings and events.
You are a High performing sales executive with business-to-business experience ideally in the Health & Hygiene, Industrial or Foodservice marketplace.

Total Benefits

We offer competitive pay and benefits to employees and reward excellence and performance.  Our belief in promoting a healthy work-life balance drives us to support our employees’ total well-being, offering comprehensive benefits not limited to gym memberships, private medical insurance, dental cover, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, critical illness cover, travel insurance and a market leading defined contribution pension scheme.

Certain benefits, such as flexible work schedules and parental leave, can be tailored to meet specific individual needs, giving our employees the flexibility to manage their commitments inside and outside of work. We are proud to be rated as a top 100 workplace for working mothers for two years in a row.

To Be Considered

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will then review your application and follow up with you if you seem like a great fit for this role

The Legal Bit!

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this role. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Kimberly-Clark is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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