About us
Mareblu is an Italian tuna brand owned by Thai Union Group, offering a wide range of canned tuna and ready-to-eat seafood products. The brand focuses on quality, convenience, taste, and innovation, providing consumers with practical and nutritious meal solutions. Mareblu stands out for its innovative no-drain tuna range, protein-rich salads, and premium tuna fillets in glass jars, while also emphasizing sustainability and responsible seafood sourcing.
Job description
The North Area Manager is responsible for maximizing market share, sales revenue, and profitability within the assigned area, ensuring the achievement of commercial objectives through the effective execution of company strategies in the field.
The role is accountable for the direct management, coordination, development, and motivation of the sales force, setting priorities, monitoring commercial KPIs, coaching sales representatives in the field, and ensuring high standards of execution at store level.
Key Responsibilities
- Maximize market share, sales performance, and profitability within the assigned geographical area.
- Manage, develop, and motivate the indirect sales force, ensuring both individual and team performance targets are achieved.
- Define commercial action plans and continuously monitor area KPIs and business performance.
- Ensure the proper execution of trade marketing activities and company commercial policies at the point of sale.
- Identify and develop new business opportunities while strengthening relationships with strategic customers.
- Collaborate closely with Trade Marketing, Category Management, Supply Chain, Customer Service, and the Sales Leadership Team to successfully implement the commercial strategy across the territory.
Required qualifications
Required Hard Skills
- Proven experience in the FMCG industry, preferably in highly competitive categories and markets.
- Experience managing both direct and indirect sales teams across a geographical territory.
- Strong capability in analyzing commercial KPIs and translating insights into actionable business plans.
- Solid understanding of Modern Trade / Grocery Retailer dynamics and commercial execution principles.
- Experience managing sales targets, budgets, and forecasting activities.
- Candidates currently working as Regional Key Account Managers (RKA) or National Key Account Managers (NKA) will also be considered, provided they have developed significant experience managing major retail customers in the Triveneto area.