Trade Spend Systems Analyst

Description

Lactalis American Group is currently seeking candidates to join our Trade Marketing team in Buffalo, NY.

Lactalis, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to nurturing the future by providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. We produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together every day. We offer an enviable range of dairy brands including Galbani, President, Kraft Natural Cheese, Cracker Barrel, Black Diamond, Parmalat, Siggi's, and Stonyfield Organic in addition to several brands imported from our affiliates in Europe.

At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do. We are dedicated to building a safe, diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace and we know that our candidates come from many different backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job posting, we still encourage you to apply and share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE! You may be just the perfect candidate for this or other roles within our company.

From your PASSION to ours
The Analyst, Trade Spend Systems will be responsible for 1) the maintenance of data within Lactalis American Group, Inc.'s systems insuring that more timely and accurate information is available for reporting, tracking and oversight as required by the Commercial Department; 2) management of functional data based requirements that cross product lines with in the trade marketing system (TPM) 3) management of open deductions, with oversight over the validation and clearing of deductions, and ownership over the outstanding balance of open deductions. The Analyst, Trade Spend Systems will effectively communicate cross functionally to achieve the goals of organization, including pricing changes, new item launches, and database changes.

From your EXPERTISE to ours
Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Analyze data under direction of the Director - Trade Marketing for internal use, key customers, and distribution to broker partners Analyze requests through proprietary software.
• Ability to pull information from various resources (Stratum, IRI) Review with management and implement changes through data warehouse.
• Mange the day to day open deduction balance in the TPM system
• Support the research and clearing of deductions, including the collection of repays
• Provide appropriate analytical support required by the functional leaders of the sales organization.
• Participate in other ad hoc sales analysis projects and special projects as needed.
• Ensure accurate pricing on all invoices
• Ensure accurate system setup administration
• Proper maintenance and administration of contractual obligations related to our broker sales force
• Monitor & track field sales controllable and initiatives Deduction management, price gap monitoring, new item tracking.
• Support Commercial development of internal and external analysis and presentations e.g., NFRA, Board Presentations and Segmentation Chart updates.
• This description reflects management's assignment of essential functions, it does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

Requirements

From your STORY to ours
Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

Education

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or University

Experience

• Three to five years' related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience; 2 years CPG sales or retail experience preferred.
• Sales and/or trade marketing experience
• Sales presentation development / delivery experience

Specialized Knowledge

• Expertise with analytical software; Customer POS (IRI/Nielsen), Panel Data, Spectra Data, Industry studies.
• Experience with customer specific data: Retail Link, Dun Humby, Optura desired.

Skills / Abilities

• Strong communication, organizational and computer skills.
• Expertise in Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong time management skills.
• Strong inter-personal skills to effectively interact with field sales and headquarter personnel.
• Team oriented (ability to connect with and work cohesively with the field sales organization)
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, sales personnel, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

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Lactalis is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities.