How you will make history here...
The Customer Strategy Senior Manager interacts with brand marketing and field sales representing a portfolio of brands across a specific set of customers. In the context of those brands and customers this role is responsible for
Developing national and channel-specific trade strategies across Distribution, Shelving, Merchandising and Pricing Building customer trade plans collaboratively with sales teams Continually refining and improving business performance through analyses and insights Ensuring maximum effectiveness and efficiency of trade spending and its strategic alignment.
What you will do...
- Partners with Brand Marketing, Finance, Consumer and Shopper Analytics and Customer Teams to develop national and channel-specific DSMP trade strategies and supporting customer trade investments.
- Works with peers in Brand Marketing and Finance to develop annual customer volume and trade spending targets.
- Works with Customer Teams and Sales Finance to co-develop and manage customer/channel specific trade plans making appropriate tactical adjustments where necessary.
- Work with the VP, Sales to identify and execute against initiatives to drive towards sales targets.
- Monitors and manages customer promotional activity and trade spending to ensure strategic alignment and maximum ROI.
- Conducts customer specific analysis across portfolio of brands to identify key issues and opportunities to the plan and makes recommendations based on findings to drive improvement.
- Co-leads the monthly volume and trade spending projection process with Brand Marketing, Sales Finance and Supply Chain providing customer specific insights.
- Develop productive working relationships with various cross-functional groups (i.e. Category Strategy, Sales Planning, Brand Marketing, Brand Finance, Sales Finance, etc.).
- Develops close working relationships with customer teams to understand business performance, drivers, trends and opportunities at the customer level.
What you bring to the table... (Must have)
- Bachelor's Degree required.
- Minimum 12+ years CPG sales experience required.
It would be great if you have... (Nice to have)
- Previous experience should include trade management, customer planning, analytics and customer/field account management.
This is a HQ role based in Camden NJ 3 days a week (hybrid)
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