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WHO ARE WE?   We are the Wellbeing Collective (WBC), an exciting Global Business Unit within Unilever built with a start-up mindset. Companies included in this role’s responsibilities include OLLY, SmartyPants, Welly, and Onnit.  Each of these companies has a fantastic variety of benefit-led products, with strong innovation and growth potential. Our mission, with our science-backed and disruptive portfolio, is to improve the health and wellbeing of millions of consumers and become a leading Health and Wellness organization. As part of the Health & Wellbeing Collective, we are building an operational platform to support companies in the Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements (VMS) space called the VMS Co-Op. The VMS Co-Op will host OLLY and SmartyPants and will grow to include other VMS companies and future acquisitions as well. OLLY is a fast-growing San Francisco based company working to bring simplicity and delight to the world of nutrition. Yes, stuff like vitamins, probiotics and supplements to help you be you. We see only upside in the opportunity to transform the category experience. Not only that, we believe you can’t have happy without healthy. And isn’t true happiness where it’s at? So we’ve made it our personal mission to help people make healthy choices by making it easier than ever for them to get better nutrition into their daily lives. We are also a B-Corp, so doing social good is built into our DNA. SmartyPants is a dynamic and fast-growing Los Angeles based supplement company focused on providing premium all-in-one vitamins for the entire family.  From the start, SmartyPants has been about family, authenticity and a core commitment to our collective well-being.  SmartyPants believes in making it easier to stay healthy by providing best-in-class products that also taste great. We're industry leaders in testing, transparency and advocacy, from sourcing the highest-quality ingredients to testing and packaging.  The VMS Co-Op works in an agile and entrepreneurial way, collaboratively within the team and with our Health & Wellbeing colleagues. We work together to look at the big picture strategically as well as roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty. We’re super passionate about the work that we do and we’re on the hunt for a fellow self-starter to add to our unique culture and join our ambitious team. THE ROLE: SALES MANAGER - GROCERY  Our Sales Manager Grocery will lead  key  customer sales relationships  within the territory . This individual will  be responsible for  OLLY, Welly,  ONNIT  and Smarty Pants  brands from the WBC . Our  Sales  Manager will  interface with  our customer partners in offering solution - based  selling as well as managing our vast broker partnerships. This role is remote based with travel as  required  for customer meetings, trade  shows  and home office sales meetings.   KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Lead all sales efforts within the designated area to include both customer and broker partnerships   Build and nurture customer relations with our category merchants and procurement buyers   Responsible for forecasting all business and achieving annual “net revenue” targets   Articulate all our brands unique and premium position to deliver overall growth to the Unilever WBC.   Annual Joint Business Planning with our strategic partnerships   Category Stewardship within the VMS and OTC categories. Be the expert within our competing categories.   Strategically & profitably plan and execute Annual Business Plans at all customers within the designated areas   Be the “execution arm”. Bring our business plans to life at retail   Plan and execute profitable, “on-strategy” annual promotion plans.