
month CONTRACT Sales: Trade Marketing Manager
- Mississauga, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Owns trade investment process from start to finish, ensuring effective utilization of resources to achieve targeted sales and revenue growth.
- Model various pricing and promotion scenarios to develop strategy recommendations
- Support the development of category plans at customer / channel level that deliver sales objectives and meets the strategic needs of the business
- Trade Spend Analysis: Supervise and analyze trade spend, reporting variances to key stakeholders within the organization. Track sales objectives and promotion effectiveness, providing support to the NSSML
- Demonstrates a strong understanding of market dynamics, enabling the delivery of the necessary material required for the sales team to operate efficiently and effectively.
- Monthly Trade Optimization Reviews: Conduct regular reviews of trade spend effectiveness and make data-driven recommendations for trade optimization to achieve maximum ROI.
- Collaboration with Sales, Sales Finance and the Revenue Growth Management team to establish a clear understanding of targets and investment choices. Provide insights to support customer investment decisions and ensure ROI on trade investments.
- Communication and Reporting: Effectively communicate trade investment plans, results, and insights to stakeholders, enabling informed business decisions. Prepare and present reports to management and cross-functional teams.
- Customer Planning and IBP: Take ownership of the financial elements of customer planning, ensuring alignment with Integrated Business Planning (IBP) processes.
- Sales Performance: support in the preparation and knowledge of the Sales LE (Latest Estimate), identifying gaps and developing action plans to mitigate risks.
- Assess competitive activities at customer/channel level impacting our commercial activities with action plan recommendations
- Review category shipment and consumption, account (POS) point of sale results to identify and evaluate brand/account opportunities and risks; develop action plan to support
- Develop trade marketing plans which deliver upon both Brand strategies as well as customers goals to support the achievement of objectives
- Take accountability for the Strategy, Trade, IBP, and own the delivery of the target E2E. Review and recommend strategy changes, investment choices, innovation, and forecasting.
- Provides input as a key stakeholder into the Integrated Business Planning process on a monthly basis, drawing upon external sales inputs and representing the customer team call in the business team forecast
- Helps to lead the sales portion of the business planning process (including Strategic, Operating, and annual brand planning) representing customer team perspectives through the creation of a bottoms up building block process
- Plays a lead role in evaluating customer team annual plans and recommend annual planning volume/trade allocation for customer teams.
- Develop and execute annual trade plans that have been designed to link to the brand plans developed by the Brand Business teams
- Support the customer team with the tactics and tools required to achieve Annual Operating Plan (AOP) & strategic targets
- University degree, preferably business or economics
- 3-5 years experience in trade, pricing areas of Sales within CPG in Canada
- Effective analytical skills
- Effective experience with modelling (pricing) and data tools
- Effective ACNielsen tools and database capabilities
- Emerging interpersonal skills and ability to influence others to gain consensus
- Emerging knowledge of the S&OP process, supply chain operations and logistics is preferred