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With full P&L responsibility, this role is accountable for developing and maintaining strong and influential relationships with key MT customers and collaborating internally with key stakeholders to deliver first class insights and solutions, which help, devise and execute mutually beneficial joint business plans and deliver sustainable & profitable growth.\nRoles & Responsibilities:\nLead the development and execution of the Channels/Key customers’ short and long-term strategies, which optimizes profitability and sales revenue and achieves company, category and customer objectives.\nDevelops an understanding of the customer’s environment e.g. external trends, competitors and customers current and future needs, which is leveraged to build shopper centric customer plans, which drive mutual growth.\nDevelops accurate and timely forecasts using a variety of inputs from both consumption and shipment perspective, adopting a continuous improvement mind-set.\nLeads the development and execution of customer specific solutions e.g. assortment, merchandising, pricing and promotion which achieve customer, category and business objectives. \nDrives the customer agenda and develops strong and influential relationships with key customers focused on delivering shopper, channel and category centric solutions which accelerate customer engagement.\nLeverage insights to influence customers to implement solutions and identify new opportunities that will deliver results that are beneficial for both customer, category and business. 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