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Leadership Development Program Associate

Acosta Group
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Overview:

The Leadership Development Program (LDP) at Acosta Group is a full-time, salaried opportunity that prepares you for a pivotal cross-functional role within the organization. Over 18 months, you will rotate through 4–5 organization subgroups, including Retail, Business Intelligence, Sales, Marketing, and more. Each rotation includes hands-on experience, executive mentorship, leadership training, and industry exposure, ensuring that you graduate the program with the skills and insights necessary to propel your career forward.

Passionate about leadership and eager to grow your career? Apply now! Role will begin in July 2025.

We are hiring in all hub locations including: Jacksonville, FL, Dallas, TX, St. Louis, MO, Bentonville, AR, and Toronto, Canada. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

Rotation Overviews:

Retail Field Execution

Gain experience and knowledge in the roles of Retail Coverage Merchandiser and Retail Business Manager. This rotation is designed to elevate your knowledge and skills in the following areas:

  • Acosta Group’s foundational business and culture
  • Customer and client relationships
  • Fiscal year planning for in-store execution
  • In-store selling of client products
  • Self-leadership and supervisory management
  • Retail specific technology
  • CPG industry

Business Intelligence

Engage as a Corporate Analyst and Associate Business Manager. This rotation is designed to elevate your knowledge and skills in the following areas:

  • Collecting and analyzing syndicated scan data
  • Delivering high impact strategic value to clients and customers
  • Conducting data analysis for strategic selling and negotiating
  • Techniques for identifying trends and patterns in data
  • Using data to drive decision-making and strategy
  • Building customer and client relationships

Headquarter & Omnichannel Sales

Gain experience as a business manager, honing your skills in effective sales and relationship building with manufacturers. This rotation is designed to elevate your knowledge and skills in the following areas:

  • Advanced selling techniques
  • Consumer data planning, tracking and analysis
  • Prioritizing requirements to serve as a strategic partner in headquarter-selling
  • Translating client and customer needs into practical business objectives
  • Delivering high impact strategic value to clients and customers
  • Managing, growing, and maximizing accounts
  • Achieving client and customer objectives related to sales, productivity, profitability, and marketing strategy
  • Fostering customer and client relationships
  • Best in class ecommerce knowledge and techniques

Marketing

Engage as an account coordinator working directly with clients and customers. This rotation is designed to elevate your knowledge and skills in the following areas:

  • Coordinating and executing Assisted Sales & Training (AS&T) programs
  • Collaborative efforts between our strategy and creative teams
  • Coordinating and assisting the client services teams on the execution of activations, programs, and live events
  • Understanding Mosaic’s consultative approach and how it delivers ROI to clients

Additional Rotation:

The final rotation placement is determined based on an associate’s preferences and skillsets, aligned with the organization’s strategic goals. This rotation is tailored to provide you with a seamless integration into a team within Acosta Group and additional development training.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Minimum GPA: 3.25
  • Graduated within the past 2 years

Desirable Skills and Attributes:

  • Passionate about diverse subjects including Retail, Business Intelligence, Sales, and Marketing.
  • Proactive, dependable, and personable, with exceptional organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills.
  • A willingness to ask questions, acknowledge mistakes, and continually deepen their knowledge.
  • Strong leadership skills; capable of providing concrete examples of leadership from previous projects or work experiences and articulate their specific contributions as a leader.
  • The ability to assess processes meticulously and formulate well-informed, tangible proposals.
  • Proficient in computer applications such as Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

ABOUT US

Acosta and Mosaic are the sales and marketing powerhouses behind the most recognized and proven brands with top retailers in the United States and Canada. We offer flexible services that maximize efficiency. Acosta has the talent and technology to build data-, reach- and relationship-driven strategies to execute those strategies, and the tools to monitor, track and optimize metrics-based results for customers and retailers.

Acosta and its subsidiaries, in good faith, believes that this posted range of compensation is the accurate range for this role at the time of this posting. Acosta may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range depending on candidate qualifications and locations. This range may be modified in the future.

Acosta and its subsidiaries is an Equal Opportunity Employer

We are committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If you require accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs, to the extent required by law.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Mosaic reserves the right to modify all or part of any job descriptions at its discretion in order to meet and or exceed the needs of the business.

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