TECHNICAL / FUNCTIONAL / LEADERSHIP SKILLS REQUIRED INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

• Ability to communicate with and engage retail customers and adult nicotine consumers in person.
• Effective influencing, sales, negotiation, and marketing skills
• Highly effective verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Project Management Skills
• Good business judgment
• Leadership, self-motivation, and initiative
• Has a high level of persistence, resilience, and results orientation.
• Conflict management and problem-solving for mutually beneficial results
• Strategic and financial acumen to enable the identification, evaluation, and action against business growth.

opportunities

• Ability to travel frequently.
• Ability to drive up to 200 miles per day.
• Valid U.S. driver’s license and safe driving records

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

• Ability to lift to 30 lbs.
• Ability to climb and work from heights ranging from 9 to 12 feet.
• Ability to access and work in limited and confined spaces.
• Ability to visually inspect and manipulate merchandise and advertising displays.
• Ability to frequently stoop, kneel and crouch.

EDUCATION / QUALIFICATIONS / CERTIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree or comparable work experience preferred.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

• Achieves commercial sales and growth objectives within territory assignment in support of Division, Region, and Company goals.
• Develops a local strategy and business plan for meeting individualized territory objectives, including identifying, analyzing, prioritizing, and targeting existing and potential retail outlets within geographic territory for product sales opportunities.
• Develops strategy for product and Point of Sale (POS) material placements to optimize sales and market visibility.
• Achieve customer/consumer engagement skills certification and consistently demonstrate mastery within Territory.
• Builds client willingness and capability to collaborate with the Company on key business fundamentals and drivers to accelerate the transformation of the tobacco industry, and to increase market share.
• Develops and maintains business relationships with local chains and distributors to increase sales and promote Reynolds brands through personal correspondence and influence, retail visits and presentations.
• Sell/execute the 5Ps of presence, pricing, promotion, product, and personal selling to customers and adult nicotine consumers.
• Analyses territory to identify and negotiate contracts with new retail customer opportunities.
• Collaborates with Division Manager on territory-specific customer and sales planning, company product initiatives, and improving market share within the territory.

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