JOB DESCRIPTION:

To support our brands Acana and Orijen achieve its volume and profit goals in healthy pet diets by supporting the sales strategy and delivering account specific sales goals. Responsibilities include developing business plans and cultivating customer relationships that result in client satisfaction and the opportunity for our products to become the reference in healthy pet diets. This Associate is responsible for meeting the following principal accountabilities in all retail units within her/his territory including chain, and independent retail pet specialty stores.

• Strengthen the position of our brands within pet specialty stores by positioning yourself as a knowledgeable and trusted partner.
• Follow a full sales-call process to National, Regional and Independent pet specialty retail stores in a given territory
• Implement Perfect Store standards through leveraging Category Management selling methodology to gain distribution of core and innovative SKU’s
• Work closely with Key Account & Trade Marketing Mangers to ensure effective execution of cycle priorities
• Collaborate and Report. Work closely together with other departments to ensure alignment and success.