Account manager Jobs in Herisau

Description

Temporary Contract till end of Aug, parental leave cover

About us

At Diageo, we do Sales differently. We’re the leading beverage alcohol company in every region of the world, boasting internationally-recognised brands such as Baileys, Guinness, Smirnoff, and Johnnie Walker. And this is your opportunity to create new ways to share and celebrate our truly iconic products across the globe.

We offer a perfect blend of local and global roles, covering everything from digital to customer service, our immersive store experiences to international operations. Wherever you are, you’ll need to be able to forge lasting relationships, bring commitment and energy to improve our performance, and a genuine entrepreneurial spirit in tune with our company’s proud legacy.

At Diageo, character is everything. So if you share our sense of adventure, you’ll have the chance to learn a huge range of skills and fields, and build an exceptional career with us.

About the role

We are looking for a Key Account Manager to join the team in Switzerland till end August 2026. It is a great opportunity to take responsibility for developing and growing accounts in the Swiss Off-Trade. If you are interested in a position with significant impact, this one is for you!

Responsibilities include :

• Management and ownership of your customer accounts in the Off Trade channel. Run full day-to-day business.
• Establish and foster relationships at customer level with decision-makers.
• Plan and conduct annual negotiations
• Increase sales by identifying distribution opportunities, white spots, optimize promotional plans and activations together with support functions.
• Comprehensive analysis of the relevant customer and category data. Elaborate and implement tailormade and data driven customer strategy recommendations.
• Support development of customer specific marketing concepts together with Customer Activation and track via measures of success.
• Implement new product launches and campaigns
• Facilitate category management projects
• Collaboration with the field organization and important internal stakeholders such as revenue growth management, customer activation, finance, logistics and customer experience teams

About you

Our offer

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

Worker Type : Regular

Primary Location : Lausanne

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Job Posting Start Date :

2025-08-29