Account Manager, Digital Sales

Bandai Namco

Irvine, California

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Budget Management, Budgeting, Business Administration, Business Analysis, Business Plan, Business Skills, Business Solutions, Business Strategy, Category Management, Cross-Selling, Customer Relations, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Customer/Client Research, Data Collection, Develop and Maintain Customers, Establish Priorities, Exceeded Sales Goal, Forecasting, Industry/Trade Analysis, Leadership, Logistics Management, Market Analysis, Market Tracking, Marketing, Marketing Plan, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Word, Partner Sales, Performance Analysis, Performance Metrics, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Process Improvement, Product Planning, Project Tracking, Project/Program Management, Promotional Programs, Revenue Growth, Risk Analysis, Sales, Sales Forecasting, Sales Management, Sales Pipeline, Sales Presentation, Sales Prospecting, Schedule Development, Spreadsheets, Stock Keeping Unit (SKU), Team Building, Team Lead/Manager, Team Player, Trade Shows, Up-Selling, Willing to Travel, eCommerce
LOCATION
Irvine, California
POSTED
Today
Account Manager, Digital Sales
 
The Account Manager develops and executes sales plans aligned to business unit strategy, budgets, and annual targets. Owns forecasting, identifies risks, and drives growth opportunities across assigned accounts. Leads category management, business analysis, and account planning management. Builds strong customer relationships, develops data-driven partner presentations and selling stories, and conducts market analysis to inform new business strategy. Consistently meets or exceeds sales targets, KPIs, and performance metrics. This position will be a hybrid position working both remotely and 3 days on site at our corporate office located in Irvine, CA.
 
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
 
SALES MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Build and maintain strong, client relationships; understand objectives, challenges, and expectations.
  • Stay current on industry trends, product categories, and the Ecommerce, Omni-channel landscape.
  • Recommend and implement brand and product plans across trade partners. Develop promotional plans aligned marketing goals.
  • Deliver concise, data driven sales presentations to prospective and current clients.
  • Review account plans monthly with management in calls and meetings.
  • Manage budgets efficiently: request incremental resources to drive growth.
  • Manage pipelines and CRM: update records, track activities, and monitor progress to targets.Travel to trade shows and corporate events for product and industry presentations.
ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Drive upsell and cross-sell growth across existing accounts in partnership with Sales and Marketing.
  • Own sales forecasting, pipeline reviews, and performance tracking against targets. .
  • Monitor market conditions to assess customer needs, positioning, and volume potential.
  • Manages clients’ logistic flow (sell-in and sell-through) for products and promotions.
  • Lead category management; SKU productivity, planograms (POGs), margin improvement and promotions.
  • Track market, competitor, and industry trends to identify account risks and growth opportunities.
 
REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILTIES

CORE SKILLS
 
Business Savvy/Financial Knowledge-
Understands Bandai’s business, how the business works, the inter-relationships of functional groups; understands business results and implications and is knowledgeable about competitive landscape; understands how to use facts and data to make sound decisions and manage profitably.
 
Creativity & Innovation-
Generates new ideas; anticipates future needs and opportunities; has a bias toward continuous improvement- thinks expansively and challenges assumptions.
 
Drive for Results-
Displays a bias for action; overcomes obstacles; pursues aggressive goals; drives issues to closure; drives toward performance excellence, responds quickly, takes independent action, takes ownership, sets excellence standards and demonstrates ethical conduct.
 
Planning, Organization and Execution-
Establishes plans; organizes and deploys resources; develops effective systems and processes; ensures execution and effectively determines tasks and resources, schedules and prioritizes and leverages internal/external resources.
 
Teamwork-
Builds relationships; looks for win-win solutions; fosters collaboration across boundaries develops others ideas, facilitates agreement and action, subordinates personal goals and involves others.
 
Leadership-
Establishes a short/long term vision; builds strong teams; facilitates and leads change to improve business results; builds partnerships across the business facilitates goal accomplishment, builds successful team, moves others to action and addresses change resistance.
 
Product Evangelist-
Product expert, understand product features and benefits, demonstrate to customers knowledgeable about product and can offer product solutions.
 
 
JOB-SPECIFIC SKILLS
 
Selling–
Develop short term and long-term sales planning. Utilize six step selling technique.
 
Negotiating –
Able to present facts and concepts to convince others resulting in terms of agreement.
 
Personal Computer Usage –
The ability to use a WINDOWS-based computer for business applications such as word/excel & power-point, financial spreadsheets, presentations, charts, etc.

Presentation-
Able to effectively express information, ideas and concepts formally to groups of people. Uses supporting media appropriately.
 
Problem Solving –
Able to gather and interpret data to solve job-related problems; able to distinguish between causes and symptoms of problems to find viable solutions; able to work with others to collaborate on solving problems.
 
Project Management –
Successful planning and execution of complex projects including establishment of schedules and budgets.
 
 
JOB REQUIREMENTS

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
  • Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university or equivalent in Business Administration.
EXPERIENCE AND WORK REQUIREMENTS
  • Five+ years of related experience.
  • Interest in anime/manga a plus.
 
MENTAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS
 
WORK ENVIRONMENT
White-collar office environment.

WORKPLACE TEMPERATURE
Typical office.

WORK CONDITIONS
Office environment or at home office.

NOISE LEVEL
Mild.

PHYSICAL SIGHT
Able to read both hardcopy and computer-based text.

LIFTING
Occasional lifting of up to 15 pounds.

TRAVEL
Moderate.

About the Company

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Bandai Namco