Account Manager

Summary

Join C.A. Fortune, a leading consumer brands agency, as a remote Account Manager focusing on Oklahoma and Arkansas. This role requires managing client relationships, planning promotions, and monitoring market trends. You will support clients in sell-in efforts and ensure brand presence in a critical market. The ideal candidate possesses 1-2 years of retail experience or a deep understanding of distribution and promotional planning. Strong communication, sales, and analytical skills are essential. C.A. Fortune offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• 1-2 years experience working with retail at a headquarter level, OR intimate understanding of distributors and end-to-end promotional planning processes
• Sales experience with a passion for consumer packaged goods, food, and beverage
• Thick skin when having a sale rejected, and active listening skills to reframe the sale for the next approach
• Concise communication skills, and creativity when breaking through communication blockages
• Effective use of Microsoft Office, specifically Outlook, Excel, and Powerpoint

Responsibilities

• Support clients in their sell-in efforts for new item launches, category reviews, promotional vehicles, and seasonal items
• Manage our clients’ day-to-day efforts in OK and AR, such as planning promotions, communicating pricing changes, communicating supply constraints, and monitoring competitive items both in your assigned retailers and competitive retailers
• Regularly visit stores for intelligence gathering, including snapping proof-of-performance & planogram photos, performing price analyses, and informing stores of upcoming promotions or product launches

Preferred Qualifications

• Relationships or experience with Harp’s, Homeland, Crest Foods, and/or Pruett’s
• Experience in Category Management
• Experience in Category Analytics (or requisite Microsoft Excel skills)
• Deep knowledge of sales and innovation trends within any specific departments or categories

Benefits

• 16 days of PTO
• 11 paid company holidays per year
• 2 paid volunteer days per year
• Bonus Eligible
• 3 months fully paid parental leave (regardless of gender)
• Medical, dental, and vision
• Paid company life insurance
• 401k with company match
• Summer hours (half day Fridays from Memorial Day thru Labor Day)
• Work from home flexibility