Account Manager - Consumer Goods Industry

BlueSky is a leading digital transformation and technology consulting company aiming to be Africa's top enterprise digital transformation consultancy by 2030. We seek a driven enterprise software services sales professional to develop and drive profitable engagements with Consumer Packaged Goods (formerly FMCG) clients.

Role: Account Manager - Consumer Packaged Goods

Responsibilities:

\- Manage expectations and develop business solutions for selling professional services into enterprise clients.

\- Understand and interpret customer pain points and needs

\- Forecasting, pipeline management, and achieving targets.

\- Own and drive the Revenue Protection and Growth plan.

\- Align account plans with client strategy and understand current projects and success metrics.

\- Identify value-adding opportunities (cross-sell/upsell).

\- Assist with business case definition, ROI analysis, and proof points.

\- Own proposal creation, client presentations, and documentation.

\- Drive customer conversations aligned to value propositions.

\- Manage proposals, customer engagement cadence, and build lasting relationships.

\- Understand customer procurement processes and operating models.

\- Represent BlueSky at events and conferences.

\- Ensure positive customer experience and manage escalations.

\- Coordinate internally for timely solution delivery.

\- Follow internal processes and partake in meetings.

Requirements:

\- Professional services sales and account management experience with enterprise retail and CPG organizations.

\- Solution selling experience and a track record of success.

• Minimum 5 years selling into enterprise accounts.
• Deep understanding of the Retail, CPG, or FMCG industries

\- Relationship-building skills and proficiency in oral and written communication (English).

\- Ability to define account plans and leverage C-level relationships.

\- Leadership, communication, business acumen, relationship savvy, results-oriented, and appetite for learning.

\- Proven experience selling into the CPG, FMCG and/or Retail industry.

\- Professional services experience with software or technology solutions.

\- Knowledge of Salesforce, AWS, Data and Analytics or Enterprise CRM

Our Values:

In It Together

Make It Better

Embrace Difficult

Pay It Forward

Benefits

Our team inspires progress in each other and in our customers through our relentless pursuit of excellence; you will work with leaders who promote learning and personal development. We offer competitive salaries, incentives, training, and mentoring.

Please note: This role is only able to accept applications from people currently located in South Africa