Manager, Trade Architecture Management

🕒 October 15

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $108.2k - $148.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1911

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

Food & Beverage • Healthcare • Manufacturing

Mars is a global manufacturer known for its iconic brands across various consumer-focused sectors, including pet care, food and nutrition, and sweets. The company produces popular snacks and treats including chocolate, chewing gum, mints, and fruity confections, such as M&M'S, Snickers, and Skittles, bringing happiness to families and their pets. Mars is deeply committed to sustainability and has implemented the Mars Sustainable in a Generation Plan to improve the health of the planet including initiatives focused on reducing carbon emissions and responsible sourcing. Furthermore, Mars is heavily invested in creating a better world for pets through its extensive pet nutrition and health services. With over a century of operation, Mars places a strong emphasis on inclusion and diversity, striving for a positive impact within the communities it serves.

📋 Description

• Serve as a key business co-pilot for Sales and an integral member of the local center of excellence team for trade investment • Deliver profitable category and profit pool growth with customers • Partner with Sales, Customer Business Unit, SDL, and Finance teams to design and execute trade investment frameworks and programs of sale • Develop and manage customer Trade budgets and trading terms focused on trade investment productivity • Support the SRM Trade Director in evaluating and creating recommendations on long-term trade investment strategies • Create robust fact bases on customer, channel, and portfolio dynamics using SCM outputs • Create and maintain CBU Trade Architecture investment frameworks using internal and external information • Partner with S&F, Customer Experience, Sales, Customer Marketing, and Category Leadership teams • Communicate clear guidelines on the trade architecture investment structure • Own reporting and analysis for investment structures, recommended trade margins, and profit pools • Support Sales Leadership, SRM, and KAM teams in designing and delivering annual growth and trade shape targets by account • Conduct ongoing trade investment and budget analyses to inform, monitor, and course-correct plans • Enter and maintain Trade Budgets in TPM systems and monitor compliance and performance against frameworks and targets • Collaborate with KAMs and Demand Finance to recommend additional trade investments for incremental customer and channel growth • Consolidate trade investment business cases and help gain agreement through S&OP+ • Create and analyze Trade Investment reporting • Monitor investment position by customer against plan across TLI, trade shape, and working versus non-working trade spend KPIs • Monitor non-quality trade against budgets

🎯 Requirements

• Proven record in analyzing and modelling complicated data sets • Experience creating analysis tools using Excel and databases • Ability to use analysis to reach insightful conclusions and create robust recommendations • Ability to present outputs in an informative way • Understanding of the commercial P&L from RRP to NSV, including how changes in sales and investments affect it • Understanding of trade promotions, including price discounts, uplifts, base and incremental volumes, trigger funding, ROI, TLI, and trade shape preferred • Ability to calculate customer trade margin through different investment levels • Knowledge and experience using analytical models and TPM IT systems for promotional scenario planning helpful • Understanding of integration between TPM systems and information management or forecasting systems helpful • Understanding of strategic and operational impacts of trade promotional decisions across the 5C’s helpful • Ability to build successful working relationships and contribute to cross-functional teams • Ability to articulate and convey ideas simply and effectively

🏖️ Benefits

• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University • Industry competitive salary and benefits package • Company bonus • 401(k) plan • Company-sponsored medical insurance • Company-sponsored dental insurance • Company-sponsored vision insurance • Basic life insurance for the employee and eligible dependents • Up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave • 120 hours of vacation per year • Paid sick time at 100% pay continuation for a maximum of 40 hours per calendar year • 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year, including fixed and flexible holidays

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