District Manager

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

You lead a team of field sales representatives/managers to ensure execution of the sales strategy and achievement of annual KPIs and targets. 

How you will contribute 

The District Manager will execute retail priorities within a specific geographic territory. The position has responsibility for managing a retail sales force, either Warehouse or direct store delivery (DSD), organized within that specific geography. Ensuring that all Retail priorities are clearly communicated and executed at store level is critical. 

The DM will support the following strategies: Category Planning group to determine timetables for plan rollouts. Broadly, the position will support the following strategies: 

• Maximize the growth of franchises through retail execution (4 key elements: Shelving, Pricing, Promotions, Product Assortment) 

• By ensuring superior shelving standards are implemented across all categories 

• Ensuring the retail selling team is performing the Effective Store call procedure during every store call 

• Driving merchandising at store level through strong display support during all key drive periods 

• Be the voice of retail during all customer business team (CBT) meetings to ensure accurate and realistic programs are created for the team 

• Provide expert retail programming to all accounts within the geography 

• Support all supply chain initiative-based activities 

• Develop entry-level sales professionals to drive superior execution and performance, and where applicable for placement into advanced sales positions 

• Ensure execution of all key HQ programs at splinter group level by providing strong leadership to key account personnel 

 
Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities 

• Lead and direct the retail selling team and its business and human resources 

• Recruit, select, develop, and train the Retail Selling Team 

• Supports field sales personnel on all customer related issues, providing value added support to the customer 

• Review and analyze sales routes to ensure maximum efficiency, attend routes, and deployment as necessary 

• Maintain communication linkage with the Category Planning group and Region Management to guarantee that all sales programs are executed flawlessly through clear, concise, timely, written, and verbal communication. 

• Work closely with Customer Category Managers to ensure the right programs are in place to achieve our goals 

• Some DM’s will serve as a customer team lead, filtering information to other DM’s and collecting information to feed back to the customer team 

Key Competencies 

• Conflict Management: Ability to identify and manage areas of conflict, defusing situations of conflict and creating an acceptable resolution 

• Confronting Direct Reports: Open and candid feedback to aid in