Trade Marketing Analyst

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*Preferred Location: Phoenix, AZ

Position Summary

Align trade marketing initiatives by leveraging analytical tools, identifying new strategic opportunities, and developing and updating sales plans to increase assigned area(s) sales and profitability.

Essential Job Functions

• Coordinates, develops, and implements strategies for Category, Trade, and Shopper initiatives for assigned area(s) (20%).
• Develops department and category insights to deliver greater share of promotion, distribution, and shelving (20%).
• Analyzes new growth opportunities by category and recommends new business opportunities (20%).
• Evaluates and measures campaign results; recommends changes to strategy (15%).
• Conducts promotional performance analysis; prepares sales and financial reports (10%).
• Creates and delivers comprehensive category reviews and executes category initiatives with clients in collaboration with stakeholders including, but not limited to, Revenue Management, Category Management, and Field Sales teams (10%).
• Implements Trade Marketing strategies; tracks budget, communicates results, and makes recommendations to stakeholders (5%).
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Marketing, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Three (3) years of trade marketing, brand management, or related experience.

License/Certifications

• N/A

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA
• One year broker or sales analyst role experience
• Bilingual in English and Spanish
• Prior experience of planning and managing P&L
• Database management experience in SQL, ACCESS, or similar
• Consumer Packaged Goods experience

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (KSAs)

• Working knowledge of category management processes and applications
• Experience in SAP, BW Analyzer, and High Jump
• Working knowledge of consumption databases such as Nielsen
• Strong business and financial knowledge with business analytics skills and the ability to plan, track, and evaluate trade management
• Ability to make recommendations for solutions based on information gathered and analyzed from existing systems and/or imperfect information
• Ability to communicate across all levels of the organization, present complex ideas concisely, and clearly articulate ideas verbally and in writing
• Strong troubleshooting and problem resolution skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Word, Access, and PowerPoint; advanced skills in Excel, including data analysis, pivot tables, and complex graphs
• Ability to build professional relationships with Trade Marketing and cross-functional teams while facilitating a collaborative environment
• Ability to work within a matrix organization

Environmental/Working Conditions

• Able to travel up to 10% of the time

Physical Requirements

• Usual office environment with frequent sitting, walking, and standing, and occasional climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and balancing
• Frequent use of eye, hand, and finger coordination enabling the use of office machinery
• Oral and auditory capacity enabling interpersonal communication as well as communication through automated devices such as the telephone