Mars Inc.
Manager, Trade Architecture Management
USA-Illinois-Chicago · Part-time
Sponsorship not specified$108k-$149kDetected 2 days ago
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About the role
- The SRM Trade Architecture Manager (this role) reports to the SRM Trade Director serving as a key business co-pilot for Sales and as an integral member of the local center of excellence team for trade investment.
- This includes the development and management of customer Trade budgets and trading terms focused against trade investment productivity for Mars and our customers.
- A proven record in analyzing and modelling complicated data sets and the creation of analysis tools (Excel, Databases) to aid decision making.
Responsibilities
- Support the SRM Trade Director in evaluating and creating recommendations on long term trade investment Strategies for the market based on outputs of SCM by creating robust fact bases on Customer/Channel/Portfolio dynamics.
- Alongside the SRM director, incorporate external and internal information to create and maintain compelling CBU Trade Architecture investment frameworks by partnering with:
- S&F & Customer experience teams to understand investment options available to support SCM outputs and programs of sale (e.g., Perfect Store).
- Own all associated reporting and analysis to ensure a clear understanding of the different investment structures (including recommended trade margins and profit pools).
- Enter & maintain Trade Budgets in TPM system/tools. Monitor compliance & performance versus frameworks & targets at account/budget holder level
- Collaborate with KAMs and Demand Finance to recommend additional trade investments to capture incremental customer/channel growth opportunities. This includes consolidating trade investment business cases and helping to gain agreement through S&OP+
- The ability to use this information to reach insightful conclusions and create robust recommendations ('So What') and present outputs in an informative way.
- Able to build successful working relationships, being a key contributor as part of a cross functional team.
- Alongside the SRM director, incorporate external and internal information to create and maintain compelling
- Enter & maintain Trade Budgets in TPM system/tools.
Requirements
- An understanding of the commercial P&L from RRP to NSV is required, including how changes in sales and investments affect this.
- As would the ability to calculate customer trade margin through different investment levels.
Nice to have
- Trade Promotional Knowledge (Preferred) - An understanding of the concepts of trade promotions (Price discounts, uplifts, base & incremental volumes, trigger funding), ROI, TLI, Trade shape would be helpful.
Compensation
- Support the Sales Leadership, SRM and KAMs teams to design and deliver annual growth & trade shape targets by account.
Benefits
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
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