Trade Business Analyst

Trade Business Analyst Location Hybrid remote in Lake Forest, IL :

Job Title: Trade Business Analyst

City: Lake Forest / State: Illinois

Join Reynolds Consumer Products …and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities! We provide amazing job opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting, dynamic, fast-paced, and fun workplace environment. If you are looking to build a strong career, we have an opportunity for you! We are searching for a Trade Business Analyst to join our team located at our headquarters in Lake Forest, IL.

Your Role:

As a Trade Business Analyst, you will be responsible for supporting design and development of strategic trade promotion system and enhanced reporting capabilities. This position plays a key role in driving best practices through the production of quality information and insights derived from the TPM system. We embrace unique backgrounds and experiences to achieve a strong team and inclusive workplace.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Maintain working knowledge of the Trade Promotion Management application, tools and processes supporting trade program information and execution.
• Take responsibility for managing daily trade administration tasks and the RCP TPM support mailbox. Work cross-functionally to coordinate work necessary to resolve issues and answer end user inquiries. Follow through on issue investigation and resolution. Communicate effectively with the end users to keep everyone informed of the issue resolution progress and action plans.
• Represent Field Sales by ensuring technologies are being fully leveraged to optimize revenue and ROI metrics. Own trade planning and execution workflows maintained in the trade.
• Responsible for supporting design and development of strategic trade promotion system and enhanced reporting capabilities. Perform continuous stop/gap analysis to improve processes and workflows.
• Prepare and distribute trade program communications and announcements.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to manage customer account information related to demand forecasting and promotion planning.
• Maintain integrity of product and customer hierarchies, product price list.
• Assist with coordination of the annual trade planning and budgeting.
• Monitor Trade Reporting processes to ensure business continuity.
• Provide leadership and expertise required to champion best practice initiatives within the sales organization.
• Work with Information Technology and software vendors to research, analyze and resolve trade planning and execution issues.

We strive to build a diverse, inclusive, and talented workforce who will contribute to the Company's vision, mission, and goals.

You will love it here if…

• You thrive in a fast paced and high-energy environment
• You pay great attention to detail and are well organized
• You are highly analytic and have a natural curiosity
• You are committed to excellence

We need you to have:

• BA/BS degree in Business, Finance Information Systems or related field.
• Experience in trade promotion management in the CPG industry.
• Proficient in MS Office.
• Proven experience influencing cross functional teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate and influence at all levels within the organization.
• Self-directed with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple accountabilities and multiple internal customers.
• Strong analytical skills as well as organizational skills with high attention to detail.
• Ability to leverage data, trends, and processes to identify opportunities to improve ROI and process.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical information verbally as well as in written formats.
• Ability to identify, analyze, and resolve problems logically and systematically.
• Must be team oriented with the ability to work on high collaboration and cross-functional teams.

Icing on the cake:

• 2-3 years of Trade Marketing or Category Management in CPG industry.
• Demonstrated experience in SAP and/or JDA.

Want to know more? Check out our website or connect with us on LinkedIn!

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No recruiter calls or emails please.

Reynolds Consumer Products is an Equal Opportunity Employer EEO AA M/F/Vet/Disability.

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