Senior Director of Sales - Target

WHO ARE WE?

 We are the Wellbeing Collective (WBC), an exciting Global Business Unit within Unilever built with a start-up mindset. Companies included in this role’s responsibilities include OLLY, SmartyPants, Welly, and Onnit.  Each of these companies has a fantastic variety of benefit-led products, with strong innovation and growth potential. Our mission, with our science-backed and disruptive portfolio, is to improve the health and wellbeing of millions of consumers and become a leading Health and Wellness organization.

As part of the Health & Wellbeing Collective, we are building an operational platform to support companies in the Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements (VMS) space called the VMS Co-Op. The VMS Co-Op will host OLLY and SmartyPants and will grow to include other VMS companies and future acquisitions as well.

OLLY is a fast-growing San Francisco based company working to bring simplicity and delight to the world of nutrition. Yes, stuff like vitamins, probiotics and supplements to help you be you. We see only upside in the opportunity to transform the category experience. Not only that, we believe you can’t have happy without healthy. And isn’t true happiness where it’s at? So we’ve made it our personal mission to help people make healthy choices by making it easier than ever for them to get better nutrition into their daily lives. We are also a B-Corp, so doing social good is built into our DNA.

SmartyPants is a dynamic and fast-growing Los Angeles based supplement company focused on providing premium all-in-one vitamins for the entire family.  From the start, SmartyPants has been about family, authenticity and a core commitment to our collective well-being.  SmartyPants believes in making it easier to stay healthy by providing best-in-class products that also taste great. We're industry leaders in testing, transparency and advocacy, from sourcing the highest-quality ingredients to testing and packaging. 

The VMS Co-Op works in an agile and entrepreneurial way, collaboratively within the team and with our Health & Wellbeing colleagues. We work together to look at the big picture strategically as well as roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty. We’re super passionate about the work that we do and we’re on the hunt for a fellow self-starter to add to our unique culture and join our ambitious team.

THE ROLE: SENIOR DIRECTOR OF SALES - TARGET

Reporting to the Vice President of Sales – Target & Drug, this person will serve as a key leader of our team and will be an important face of the WBC brands to the customer. Growth strategy, long-range planning, team leadership and coaching will be key skills for this role. We are seeking commitment to building a positive culture, collaboration and alignment across the organization. The WBC brands under this leader will include SmartyPants, Onnit, Welly, and OLLY.  This role will manage a team overseeing sales and analytics.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead Target Sales team across all sales efforts at Target to maximize growth while being willing to roll your sleeves up and contribute to enhancing process and ways of working
• Play a leadership role within annual JBP collaboration and drive strategic customer relationships with key senior leaders at Target + across our operating companies to ensure a true partnership spirit
• Develop and manage strategic planning of annual business at Target, providing critical customer input into development of operating company go-to-market strategies
• Build and enhance process, customer insights, data utilization, and implement best practices
• Drive collaboration with key decision makers in brand, marketing and supply chain to establish goals and drive profitable growth to deliver Annual Operating Plan for the WBC and for broader Unilever
• Develop a Target strategy that supports growth, responds to dynamic market environments, and builds into the overall corporate strategic plan
• Think long term, drive a consumer and customer-oriented vision, and bring your team and cross-functional partners along in the journey to deliver a long-term vision with financial acumen
• Articulate the WBC’s unique positioning to deliver overall growth and look around corners to drive the long-term, strategic vision as partners to Target in their category transformation
• Be an ambassador of our team values (Be Yourself, Be Disruptive, Be Passionate, Be Supportive)
• Recruit, develop and inspire the team and contribute to the culture to make life at the WBC better for all of us

CAPABILITIES + SKILLS REQUIRED

• 10-15 years of experience in CPG Sales and/or Retail Merchant/Buyer experience with a proven track record of success working with multiple top tier retailers (5+ years Target experienc