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Senior Key Account Manager

Salomon


Job Location:

Annecy - France

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 23 September 2026 (16 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 21 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

As Senior Key Account Manager you are responsible for defining negotiating and monitoring the short- and long-term commercial strategy for the accounts under your responsibility. You build sustainable and profitable partnerships with customers to accelerate quantitative KPIs such as invoicing sell-in sell-out and margin as well as qualitative KPIs such as brand visibility in-store and online.

You will play a central role within the organization and collaborate closely with merchandising marketing finance and customer service teams.

 

Your Main Missions

Strategic Account Development

  • Build and lead strategic account plans internally and externally from short to long term. Each strategic plan must translate account ambitions and brand objectives into concrete measurable action plans.
  • Organize at least one Top-to-Top meeting per year. You will be responsible for organizing leading and following up on next steps.

Commercial Management and Negotiation

  • Independently negotiate annual agreements.
  • Lead complex negotiations and conduct regular business reviews.
  • Drive and manage sustainable account growth: revenue margin sell-out traffic conversion order book quality.

Product Merchandising and Assortment Strategy

  • Work with Merchandising teams to define account-specific assortments.
  • Share customer and consumer needs to influence assortment decisions product launches and access to exclusive products.
  • Initiate and follow up product co-development with your most premium customers.

Operational Excellence

  • Manage key performance indicators: sell-in sell-out order book conversion rate stock product availability service level and profitability.
  • Demonstrate strong expertise of e-commerce performance indicators.
  • Ensure the accuracy of pre-season and invoicing forecasts.
  • Anticipate potential roadblocks build action plans and ensure follow-up.

Marketing Collaboration

  • Build annual activation plans in collaboration with Marketing.
  • Contribute to the premiumization of the online & offline consumer experience.
  • Negotiate permanent visibility assets.

Qualifications :

What youll need

  • 4 years of successful experience in Key Account Management National Account Management or strategic sales roles.
  • Solid experience within an international brand.
  • Proven track record in strategic account management profitable growth and long-term partnership building.
  • Confirmed experience in complex commercial negotiations including annual agreements trade terms and marketing investments.
  • Strong commercial background: negotiation business analysis margin management forecasting and KPI management.
  • Ability to think long term build a vision and translate it into operational action plans.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to influence senior internal and external stakeholders.
  • Strong understanding of e-commerce merchandising marketing and consumer experience challenges.
  • Analytical mindset advanced Excel skills and ability to build your own reporting and recommendations.
  • Fluent French and English both written and spoken.

Additional Information :

Travel: regular travel approximately 30 to 40% percent of the time.
Contract: permanent contract
Start date: as soon as possible.
Location: Annecy or Villefontaine

Ready to take a key e-commerce portfolio to the next level and make an impact at Salomon Apply now and join the adventure


Remote Work :

No


Employment Type :

Full-time


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Amer Sports is a sporting goods company with internationally recognized brands such as Salomon, Arc'teryx, Peak Performance, Atomic and Wilson. “The mountain sports company”, Salomon was born in 1947 in the heart of the French Alps, the cradle of modern mountaineering. Salomon's commi ... View more

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