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Unparalleled Knowledge of the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry
The consumer packaged goods industry is our sole focus. It’s an industry that is becoming more demanding and challenging than ever. Webhunters.com finds only the most-qualified, best-fit sales and marketing candidates with up-to-date experience and skill sets to thrive in this highly competitive, rapidly changing environment.

Our Candidates
In our experience, the best and the brightest candidates are also the hardest to find because they’re intensely focused on the job at hand. They don’t take time to update their resumes and send them out. They’re busy performing at peak levels with their current employer, whether they’re happy or not. That says a lot about our candidates, their professionalism, dedication and drive.

And our marketing candidates should be your first choice – they’re the most place-able. They’re on their way up and highly marketable. They’re smart, results oriented, adaptable with outstanding attitudes.

Our highly qualified sales and marketing candidates will help ensure your organization achieves its sales and revenue targets.

The Top 12 ‘Must Haves’ for Consumer Packaged Goods Candidates
When webhunters.com identifies a top sales or marketing candidate we know with certainty that they’ll possess the vision, strategic acumen, and tactical expertise your position requires. 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, (including in-store marketing and shopper marketing) 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.