Assistant Manager - Sales

Trade Program Analyst

This position will be part of the Quaker Foods or WHS Beverages (Sports & Fitness, Juice+) organizations. This position contributes to the success of the business units by supporting the trade management process, the sales customer team(s) and sales finance team(s). The TPA will work with members of the Field sales customer team(s), Sales Finance, CFS and eventually, the HBS Quaker Trade Admins and/or WHS Bevs Contract Admin teams to achieve sales growth and profit objectives (Volume, Net Revenue, Profit – both for PepsiCo and the Customer). This will be achieved through building effective relationships with each of the teams and maintaining planning models in Sales Planner/SAP, editing events in SAP, performing the contract verification step relating to events in SAP, and ensuring Sales Finance approves events to advance accruals.

Responsibilities

• Building effective relationships with multiple sales and finance counterparts is critical to success and therefore requires the Analyst to link with key contacts within the HBS trade admin teams, customer teams and sales finance teams to ensure strong customer based execution of tactical programs.
• Reviewing Sales Planner/Prosper planning models and transmitting changes/adjustments to SAP
• Ensuring contracts properly reflect the event information in SAP and performing the official contract verification step in SAP
• Manage expectations through verbal and written interactions with customer teams
• Ensure delivery of accurate and timely data in accordance with agreed service level agreements (SLA)
• Work across multiple functions to aid in collecting insights for action-oriented cause of change analysis
• Ability to focus against speed of execution and quality of service delivery rather than achievement of SLAs
• Recognize opportunities and take action to improve delivery of work
• Implement continued improvements and simplifications of processes, standardization of reporting and optimal use of technology
• Create an inclusive and collaborative environment

Qualifications

MBA