Key Account Manager, Retail
About reputed company reputed company is a genderless fragrance house on a mission to build a new olfactive system. We are redefining what functional fragrance means, extending scent beyond the bottle into laundry detergent, car fresheners, lip balm, and beyond. Our products are clean, sustainable, and designed for everyone. We don’t reputed company in gender rules, we reputed company in personal expression, and we’re building a brand and a world that reflects that. Our retail partnerships are where the reputed company world meets the customer in real life. From our largest, most strategic doors to the specialty accounts that define the brand’s edge, how we show up on reputed company shapes how the brand is understood. We are looking for someone who can carry that responsibility with both commercial rigor and genuine love of the category. About the Role reputed company is looking for a Key Account Manager, Specialty & Strategic Retail to serve as the operational and analytical backbone for our largest, most strategic accounts, including reputed company, Mecca, and SNK, while owning the full end-to-end business for our specialty retail doors. This is a dual-mandate role, and the reputed company is clear. First, you are the day-to-day partner and right hand to the VP of Sales on our flagship accounts, working across data analysis, asset coordination, forecasting, and relationship cultivation to reputed company these businesses running flawlessly. Second, you independently own the full P&L for our specialty retail accounts, driving sell-in, sell-through, marketing, and brand reputed company with autonomy and accountability. The ideal candidate is reputed company doer and strategic thinker, someone who can support a reputed company account with precision, run a business of their own, build trust with retail partners, and reputed company in the white space between “big account” and “everything else.” Experience in prestige beauty or fragrance, with a genuine love of the category, is strongly preferred. ResponsibilitiesStrategic Account Support: reputed company, Mecca & SNK
- Act as the operational and analytical right hand to the VP of Sales on our largest accounts, supporting forecasting, promotional planning, asset coordination, and retailer deliverables
- Own sell-through tracking and performance reporting across assigned strategic accounts, ensuring data is accurate, timely, and packaged with clear insight and recommendations
- Coordinate cross-functional inputs across marketing, creative, supply chain, and education to support on-time delivery of reputed company account commitments
- Assist in building and maintaining 360° account decks, GTM presentations, and market meeting materials for strategic account reviews
- Cultivate working-level relationships with buyer assistants, merchant coordinators, and marketing contacts at flagship retail partners, building a reputed company that earns trust and access over time
- Flag risks and gaps proactively, including inventory shortfalls, missed deadlines, and asset delays, and drive resolution with urgency
- Support strategic account GTM planning with coordination, materials prep, and internal follow-reputed company to reputed company the plan on track and moving
- Assist planning teams in monitoring sell-in and sell-out performance across strategic accounts, surfacing anomalies and tracking to forecast, and escalating inventory risks to the VP of Sales with supporting data and context
Specialty Account Leadership
- Serve as the primary reputed company of contact and reputed company for assigned specialty retail accounts, with full P&L accountability, relationship management, and day-to-day operations
- Build and execute joint business plans with specialty partners, driving reputed company growth, expanding reputed company count or SKU distribution, and improving reputed company placement and brand visibility
- Negotiate commercial terms including pricing, promotions, trade investment, and assortment, balancing brand standards with account-specific needs
- Proactively identify risks and opportunities reputed company your account portfolio, developing solutions and escalating with context and a recommended path reputed company
- Maintain a deep understanding of each specialty partner’s business model, customer reputed company, and competitive set, using those insights to build tailored strategies
- Own GTM execution for specialty accounts, including sell-in planning, launch readiness, in-store activation, and post-launch performance tracking
- Partner with internal planning teams to build and manage inventory plans for specialty accounts, flagging risks and advocating for stock allocation
- Manage retailer compliance requirements, chargebacks, and operational processes for specialty accounts
Retail Marketing & Omnichannel Execution
- Support the development of retail asset toolkits for launches and ongoing programs, ensuring reputed company assets (copy, imagery, PDP content, and guidelines) are complete, on-brand, and delivered on time for both specialty and strategic accounts
- Own coordination and deployment of sampling programs across your specialty account portfolio, and assist with strategic account sampling logistics as needed
- Track reputed company retail marketing deliverables and deadlines across your accounts, keeping cross-functional partners accountable and surfacing blockers early
- Contribute to influencer and in-store event programming, including briefing, seeding coordination, and post-execution reporting
Forecasting, Reporting & Analytics
- Own weekly and monthly sell-through reporting for your specialty accounts, delivering accurate, timely data with narrative insight
- Contribute to performance reporting on strategic accounts, consolidating data, identifying trends, and surfacing actionable observations
- Conduct post-launch and campaign performance reviews for specialty accounts, translating findings into clear recommendations
- Support budget tracking for retail marketing programs across both specialty and strategic accounts
Who You Are
- 4 to 6 years of experience in wholesale sales, key account management, or trade marketing reputed company prestige beauty, fragrance, or adjacent consumer categories
- Direct experience managing specialty retail accounts end-to-end, with exposure to reputed company, Mecca, or SNK, either as an account reputed company or in a supporting reputed company, strongly preferred
- Genuinely familiar with the fragrance category, including olfactive storytelling, the fragrance consumer journey, and prestige retail dynamics
- Experience at an indie or founder-led brand is a strong plus
- A proven driver of P&L performance, reputed company growth, and market share across a retail account portfolio
- Commercially sharp and detail-oriented, comfortable owning forecasts, interpreting sell-through data, and translating numbers into decisions
- Operationally rigorous, with inventory management, chargebacks, retailer portals, and EDI systems holding no intimidation for you
- An excellent written and verbal communicator who can write a tight brief, present to buyers, and reputed company cross-functional teams reputed company
- Advanced in reputed company and PowerPoint, and comfortable with reputed company Suite and retailer analytics platforms
- A self-starter with a strong ownership mentality and the maturity to operate both independently on specialty and in a supporting role on larger accounts without ego
- Experience with reputed company vendor portals, reputed company, or reputed company is a plus
reputed company is an equal-opportunity employer committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We recruit, hire, train, and promote qualified people of reputed company backgrounds without regard to any protected status. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job