p style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"stronguThe Team:/u/strong/span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"The JLB Sales team operates as an extension of our clientrsquo;s teams, driving successful business partnerships, strategies and executions between Target and our clients. Our approach to Account Management is to build strong relationships and bring actionable recommendations that lead to growth. /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"nbsp;/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"stronguThe Role:/u/strong/span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"We are seeking a talented individual to join our organization as part of our Sales Team. As an Account Manager, you are responsible for developing and executing best-in-class services to meet and exceed our client partners growth and profitability goals. The ideal Account Manager comes with 2+ years of experience with Target, POS and syndicated data systems, is analytically driven and a self starter./span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"nbsp;/span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"ustrongWhat Yoursquo;ll Do:/strong /u/span/pullispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"Build strong relationships with both our clientsrsquo; team and Targetrsquo;s merchandising teams/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"Be an advocate on behalf of your clients, helping them solve problems and understand the needs of Target, and be successful in their business/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"Conduct on-going analysis of your clientrsquo;s omni-channel assortment performance, and identify issues and root-causes, ultimately solving vendor performance issues or problems/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"Oversee Demand Planning/Forecasting, including the overall forecasting and chase/cancel process. /span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"Assist total Sales Team in executing operational management of business management and meeting preparation (including line reviews and ldquo;top-to-topsrdquo;)/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"Submit, forecast, track and report on incremental business opportunities (new items, endcaps, circulars, TPCs, and markdowns)/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"Demonstrate an ability to collaborate effectively across multiple divisions at JLB to meet business needs/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"Identify opportunities to simplify processes and drive efficiencies and work cross-functionally to implement guidance and training to improve them/span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"nbsp;/span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"stronguWhat Yoursquo;ll Bring:/u/strong/span/pullispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"2+ years of Account Management Experience (required)/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"2+ years of item level forecasting Experience /span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"Proficient in Microsoft Excel /span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"2+ years of previous experience working with Targetrsquo;s corporate offices /span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"Self-starter/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"Customer service oriented/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"Ability to communicate through story-telling /span/lilispan style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Problem solving and navigating ambiguous situationsnbsp;nbsp;/span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"ustrongAbout JLB:/strong /u/span/pp style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"jlb is an award-winning, retail consulting firm that is passionate about helping brands succeed at Target, and Target win in the marketplace.nbsp; Over the past 35+ years, wersquo;ve helped launch and grow some of the most innovative brands at Target, including Method, Harryrsquo;s and Olly, and hundreds more like them.We offer Sales and Strategy, Business Insights, Consumer Research, Category Management, Digital Services, Trend, Creative, and Retail Service, delivering a customized approach based on the unique needs of each client.nbsp; Our collaborative team of 120+ passionate employees come from a variety of backgrounds including emerging brands, large CPGs, and mass and specialty retailers.nbsp; /span/pp style="margin-top: 12.0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"We work hard and we play hard.nbsp; Our office is a lively environment that was built for collaboration.nbsp; Sound fun? It is! Come join us! /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"nbsp;/span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Seniority Level: Mid-Level /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Industry: Retail amp; Sales/span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"nbsp;/span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Job Will Remain Open Until Filled/span/p