The Hershey Company is hiring a Business Development & Customer Marketing Manager to lead the commercial agenda for our FMCG business in Thailand and Indochina (Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia). In this role, you will be responsible for driving top-line and bottom-line growth as well as market share through strategic account management, distributor leadership, and flawless execution across all channels.
What You'll Do
- Lead Joint Business Planning (JBP) with key retailers, wholesalers, and distributors.
- Manage annual trade terms, negotiate promo plans, and ensure ROI-positive investment deployment.
- Coach and manage distributor partners to deliver coverage, availability, and execution KPIs.
- Monitor customer profitability and drive continuous improvements.
- Develop and execute the annual country sales strategy, aligned with regional commercial priorities.
- Define channel strategies across all relevant channels (e.g., MT, GT, e-commerce).
- Drive revenue growth and market share expansion via strategic growth pillars and initiatives.
- Identify growth gaps and develop corrective plans to address volume delivery, price competitiveness, and distribution reach.
- Ensure perfect store standards: availability, visibility, pricing, compliance, and promotional execution.
- Collaborate with Distributor Trade Marketing to develop and deploy activations and POSM.
- Track execution KPIs via field force reports, market visits, and retail audits.
- Track competitor pricing, promotions, innovations, and market activations.
- Identify market trends, shopper insights, and route-to-market opportunities.
- Provide data-driven recommendations to influence brand, category, and channel strategies.
- Own and lead the execution of a healthy P&L for the market.
- Formulate relevant financial deliverables with respect to channels, customers, and/or shoppers.
- Own execution of the appropriate levels of control and audit processes.
What We're Looking For
- 8-10 years of solid work experience in sales, including key account management, distributor management, and traditional trade.
- Must have had multi-country responsibility (more than 2 markets) outside of your home market.
- Demonstrated ability in key functional tasks and a clear progression or expansion in terms of areas of responsibility or increase in business size and complexity.
Nice to Have
- Candidates with an MBA is an advantage but not required.
Work Mode
This is a local-country position located in Thailand.






