Team Lead WTR Americas

Location: East Coast, open to Remote

 

Summary: 

Responsible for the accelerated business development and profitable growth of Hershey’s Travel Retail business in North and Latin America. 

 

Major Duties/Responsibilities: 

• Identify and achieve ambitious sales and financial targets for Hersheys Travel Retail business in North and Latin America

• Establish new opportunities for Hershey’s Travel Retail in Americas.  Define the growth opportunity and secure new business/ customers in the Region to accelerate sales across the strat plan, managing the P&L commitments.

• Develop strong relationships with strategic customers in defined markets to deliver accelerated growth by utilizing relevant insights with focus on increased distribution, retail excellence, promotional execution and customer specific planning, with measurements defined by the retail audits in top airport locations.

• Manage and develop WTR staff located in this region

 

 

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required to successfully perform major duties/responsibilities: 

• Languages: Excellent oral and written English communication skills.

• IT Skills: Excellent PC skills in Excel, Word, Power Point and Outlook

• Personal Skills: Excellent Planning and Execution Skills, Proactive and positive  nature, Action oriented, Mature Business Sense, Self sufficient with multi tasking abilities, Self starter , Should love travelling often, Self reliant and can work alone or away from office. Insights driven approach to results

• Interpersonal skills: Strong interpersonal and motivational skills, strong leadership and team building skills

• Others: Proven account management and negotiating skills, strong Finance understanding

 

 

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements: 

• College graduate preferably in Marketing/ Business Management courses, MBA preffered

• LTAM TR Business experience required, with high level key account penetration success in industy achieved in prior positions.  8-10 years experience in the Travel Retail Channel in LATAM Region desired.