Key Account Support

Lifestyle Brands (the LSB) is a growing house of like-minded brands under the SC Johnson umbrella including Method®, Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day®, Babyganics® and Ecover®. Headquartered in San Francisco with additional operations in Chicago and throughout Europe, the LSB is home to 650 employees. Together we act as a force for bold, transformative growth with a focus on delivering positive impact for people and the planet. If you’re into pioneering the future and doing good while doing business, come join us.

The LSB is part of SC Johnson, a family-owned company and leading manufacturer of household cleaning, home storage, air care, pest control and shoe care products, as well as professional products. Originally founded in 1886 and headquartered in Wisconsin, U.S.A., SC Johnson and the Lifestyle Brands division are at work for a better world.

Location: Hamburg, Germany

Contract type: Maternity Cover (1 year)

People Leader: Chanel Lead, Grocery

Function: Sales

Internal Job Title: Specialist, Sales

Overview:
We are looking for a Key Account Support superstar. Someone with great admin skills, a keen eye for detail, and a skill for juggling lots of balls. We’re looking for someone who can assist the Sales Team in managing retail relationship, hitting budgets & executing our promotional plan and tracking trade spend.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide great day to day support to our sales team:

- Provide customers all the necessary information (i.e. complete new line forms, product data sheets, product passports & turnover reports)
- With bringing up customer sell in & sell out analysis / insights to help the KAMs analysis
- Provide data driven, accurate & timely inputs to KAM and demand planning to support S&OP process and accurate forecasts. Work closely with key customer contacts to ensure their customer service needs are met.
- Maintain the high level of accuracy of technical data in our external Datapools (GDS1, Markant etc)
- Support delivery of our strategy by also working independently on your own projects (e.g. work on launch projects of new SKUs)
- Serve as a passionate role model for our values and advocate within our customers (brand from the inside out), further positioning our brands as differentiated and values-driven to support premium positioning.

Your superpowers:

- University degree (Bachelor or Master)
- You’re a wizz with Microsoft Office suite and SAP.
- Ideally you’ll have had experience working in a retail or FMCG environment and seeking a career in Sales.
- You’re a language maestro, speaking both German and English fluently.
- Your communications credentials are one of your biggest strengths; you can strike up strong relationships with people from the get-go.
- You're a self-starter who isn’t just waiting for instruction, you seek out opportunities and make them happen with passion

About us:
We are the people behind method + Ecover. We’ve always done things differently - we’re fearless thinkers, mad scientists and daring designers who believe that making soap leads to brave ideas, bold inventions, and beautiful bubbles. We started small but we have big plans to make the world a cleaner, greener, more colourful place. We invite everyone to join us as we pioneer a future where doing business is doing good for all.

Let’s get one thing straight - you’re not coming here to just sell soap, or cleaning products. You’re joining us to move the hearts, souls and minds of others all over the world that see the world differently. We think about cleaning as an act of creative expression, a gesture of rebellion, and, yes, an escape from the normal. We take cleaning seriously - but not ourselves.

Alongside our friends Mrs Meyers and Babyganics, we are collectively known as Lifestyle Brands and are part of the SC Johnson family.

Application:
It’s a big, beautiful, colourful world out there and we should celebrate that. That’s why we’re working hard to be a fully diverse and inclusive place to work. Every day we strive to create an atmosphere where everyone feels valued, listened to, supported and where we can do our best work. Sure, there’s always more that can be done. But together with our team, partners, customers, and community, we can make everyone welcome.


We are happy to adjust our hiring process to ensure we are accessible to everyone - please let us know what we can do to support you.