pricing and trade fund promotions specialist, CPG

Starbucks

Job Summary and Mission

This position contributes to Starbucks success by assisting in the implementation, monitoring and improving trade fund management and pricing programs that deliver profitable volume, revenue and share growth for the company. This role delivers a competitive advantage by helping to integrate, synthesize, and interpret multiple data sources that help provide quality support for all pricing decisions for CPG

Summary of Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:

- Administers the trade fund program for CPG organization

- Participates in the development of all trade fund training

- Supports and executes communication of all trade funds and changes to CPG organization

- Monitors and tracks all trade fund spending and promotional activity

- Ensures monthly tracking of promotional spending is in line vs. the budget

- Creates and delivers all monthly reporting to CPG teams for all trade funding activity and budget

- Assists with all promotional analytics where needed

- Works with market planning to deploy trade fund programs

- Has a financial understanding and skills to develop promotional effectiveness and analytics

- Assists with the promotion funding

- Tracks CPG merchandising frequency and brand activity

- Proficient working with data and helping to building analysis that support CPG teams choices

- Assist in developing new types of analysis for sales

- Partners closely with Category Management team and Consumer Insights team to make data based decisions regarding the promotions efficiency

- Strong communication skills and comfortable interfacing with key internal partners

- Provides advanced analytical support and project coordination to support Price and Trade Funds team

- Able to collect and sort data of a confidential and complex nature

- Designs and executes tracking reports for internal and external business needs

- Identifies and implements processes to improve work flow for Price and Trade Funds team

Qualifications

Summary of Experience:

- Experience working financial or analyst roles in a CPG company (+2 years)

- Experience working with multiple sources of financial data (+2 years)

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

- Ability to analyze multiple levels of data from many resources to make productive recommendations

- Able to mine data sources to create compelling category strategies

- Ability to build diverse collaborative relationships

- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing

- Proficient in setting priorities, meeting deadlines, and managing multiple projects

- Can work in a fast paced environment

- Able to handle and manage confidential information when working internal and externally

Primary Location

US-WA-Seattle

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