Unparalleled Knowledge of the Consumer Package Goods Industry
The consumer package goods industry is our sole focus. It’s an industry that is more demanding and challenging than ever. Webhunters.com will find you the candidates with the up to date experience and skill sets to thrive in a highly competitive, rapidly changing environment.

Our Candidates
In many cases top candidates don’t even have their resumes updated. In our experience, the best and the brightest are also the hardest to find because they’re also the most focused. They don’t have time to send their resume out all over town. They’re the ones who are doing their jobs to the best of their ability with their current employer, whether they’re happy or not. That says a lot about our candidates.

And our candidates should be your first choice – they’re the most place-able. They’re on the way up. They’re always marketable because they’re smart, results oriented, adaptable and have good attitudes.

They’ll make your organization more money, achieve your sales and revenue targets, and save you a bundle of time –time we’re sure you could spend in a myriad of other, productive ways.

The Top 12 ‘Must Haves’ for Consumer Package Goods Candidates
When webhunters.com identifies a top candidate we know with certainty that they’ll possess the vision, strategic acumen, and tactical expertise the position will require. Our candidates are able to:

1. Provide strategic leadership in managing one or more major customers. Identify issues and opportunities within key accounts, develop annual customer plans to achieve volume, profit, and share targets with each customer
   
   
2. Build trust with all customers. Understand the category and retail environment better than anyone else and deploy a combination of store level grass roots knowledge and savvy head office planning abilities
   
   
3. Incorporate category management best practices into sales and marketing initiatives
   
   
4. Develop and execute category plans that align with strategic goals for the category and the customer, and maintain your position as the category captain.
   
   
5. Promote and manage business development initiatives. Integrate the activities of sales, customer service, and marketing managers
   
   
6. Use customer and client databases, and other information sources such as A.C. Nielsen and Retail Link to uncover category opportunities.
   
   
7. Manage the inventory supply chain efficiently and effectively through an ability to obtain the right information in the least amount of time
   
   
8. Understand the customer’s micro and macro strategies and work in tandem to create and facilitate the execution of dynamic retail programs. Plan and execute shelf merchandising strategies, and maintain and execute the proper SKU assortments
   
   
9. Direct and manage product selection, new product development, pricing, promotion, and market research activities. Leverage both price and non-price marketing strategies
   
   
10. Make clear, quality, fact-based presentations to key accounts
    
    
11. Equip sales personnel with information, information systems, tools and programs to provide a competitive selling edge with the trade and maximize the input of trade expenditures
    
    
12. Develop consumer insights through an understanding of consumer trends, demographics, and purchasing habits