Account Specialist (m/f/d)

About Avery Dennison

Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science company specializing in the design and manufacture of a wide variety of labeling and functional materials. The company’s products, which are used in nearly every major industry, include pressure-sensitive materials for labels and graphic applications; tapes and other bonding solutions for industrial, medical, and retail applications; tags, labels and embellishments for apparel; and radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions serving retail apparel and other markets. Headquartered in Glendale, California, the company employs more than 32,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Reported sales in 2020 were $7.0 billion. Learn more at www.averydennison.com.

What we can offer you! - Your Role

As an Account Specialist you work as an integral part of a sales team in driving initiatives to provide intelligent, creative, sustainable solutions to key retail and apparel accounts. In this position you support the team by providing accurate and timely reports, trend information and data analysis. You communicate regularly with customers to provide information, answer questions, and develop strong partnerships. As Account Specialist you also sustain internal account management processes and best practices to meet and exceed sales quota targets. You are looking for an ideal position for an insightful, motivated, high-potential person with aspirations of pursuing a future sales career? This is it!

Activities may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Understanding the customer’s business model and goals, and our role in enabling their success

• Creating and maintaining inventory reports and customer sales reports

• Managing product development trackers and price lists

• Resolving RBO, order, quality, or deployment issues

• Creating and sustaining program launch playbooks

• Preparing and managing the financial forecast and RFID forecast

• Creating sample boards and preparing customer presentations

• Tracking rebates

• Managing the material forecast to support internal site readiness for orders

• Setting up customers for web ordering

• Tracking our compliance with waste management

• Identifying insightful ways to make account management process most efficient by implementing best practices and proactively addressing anticipated account needs

• Working with the teams across Avery Dennison to support sales growth

• Leading account management activities such as conducting store audits, attending customer meetings, and maintaining account planners for smaller accounts

What we expect from you! - Your Expertise:

• strong affinity for numbers and calculations preferred

• Previous experience in the retail apparel industry strongly preferred

• Must be strong at analyzing and interpreting complex data sets

• Outstanding internal and external communication and presentation skills required

• Excellent communication and presentation skills in English and German both spoken and written

• Ability to independently prioritize workload

• University degree (BS/BA) or equivalent preferred

• Advanced level experience in use of applicable computer systems, including Microsoft Office, Gmail and other function specific software

• Flexible with a willingness to learn

Who we are! - Our Story:

Each of us, Every day!Eight Values. One Team!

We understand diversity and equal opportunities as enrichment for our future-oriented work at Avery Dennison. With us, teams are balanced and diverse. Because each of us is unique, and we appreciate bringing together different personalities and talents.

Avery Dennison is an equal opportunity employer. You are interested in knowing more about our Diversity & Inclusion approach? Please go to averydennison.com/en/home/about-us/diversity-and-inclusion.html

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