Pricing and Promotion Systems Functional Support | § Price & Price Promotions Administration and Support: Preparation for national SKU rollouts, maintain corporate price structure elements, lead mass SKU cleanup efforts, maintain appropriate master data. Work directly with Supply Chain, Master Data, Finance and Regions to resolve inter-related data, setup, clean-up, and timing of system requirements to ensure a seamless, accurate, uninterrupted, flow of data from and to all required functions. § Assists users in application usage and how-to’s. Anticipates issues as business changes evolve and proactively prepares users and distributors for the impact. Resolves unanticipated issues and usage errors as they occur. § Takes a systematic and sustainable approach to evaluate solution alternatives, makes fact-based decisions, and evaluate the consequences of recommendations/actions. § Revenue & Price Promotion Planning Administration/Support - Key liaison with Finance and Regions for budgeting actions, provide necessary master data for base planning process, assists users in application usage and how-to’s. Expert knowledge of Cognos planning models and ongoing revisions. § GI Planning Tool Administration/Support – ensure the preparation of tools in support of GI Planning execution for regions and corporate. Work with internal and external resources, where needed, to provide tools as needed, on time.System Documentation and Training: Create and maintain system documentation, job aids and system flows in support of internal and external usage. Provide onboarding and ongoing training for users related to how systems work and interact, dependencies, tips and tricks. |
Education and experience | · Bachelor’s Degree · 3-5 years experience in some aspect of pricing in a CPG company · Experience with spreadsheets/financial application maintenance · Experience successfully working with functional and cross-functional teams required. | · Degree in IS or systems management · Price planning, analysis, execution/application, or reporting
· Experience liaising with sales forces and distributors | |||
Skills and knowledge | · Problem Solving: Use a discipline process to solve problems, and recommend potential solutions. Ability to quickly assess situation, identify root causes of issues, generate multiple solutions, make sound decisions. · Communication: Express ideas clearly, concisely and effectively; listens to and responds appropriately to others. Clearly communicates requirements and complex business concepts to achieve desired results at multiple organization and functional levels.. · Tech Skills: Advanced Excel spreadsheet skills (functions/ macros/VBA) and relational database management skills (e.g., Access, enterprise databases). SAP and Business Objects experience. · Data Integrity/Testing: Employs standard and repeatable methods to ensure data and analytic results are accurate. Strong attention to detail, with an emphasis on quality control. · Team Skills: Strong ability to work independently and within cross functional teams. Ability to quickly build and develop effective working relationships across the organization. Excellent customer service skills and focus. | · Vendavo Price Console application experience. |