Clarkston Consulting

Senior Consultant, Trade Marketing

Clarkston Consulting

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Philadelphia • Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • **What You’ll Do **
  • As a Trade Marketing (TPM/TPO) - Senior Consultant at Clarkston you will:
  • - Help leading consumer goods clients to define their trade promotion objectives, challenges, and operational processes
  • - Design and implement trade promotion optimization strategies that align with business goals.
  • - Leverage your experience with one or more trade systems (e.g., Exceedra, Demantra, AFS, CAS etc.) to facilitate all aspects of a TPM implementation
  • - Translate business processes into functional requirements. This may include recommendations on leveraging current technologies and assessing software vendors based on organizational needs
  • - Share best practices, industry knowledge, and personal expertise to educate both clients and fellow consultants, in formal and ad hoc settings
  • - Assist in the creation and management of project plans and timelines, define project deliverables, identify and track issues and their resolution, and help to manage project scope and requirements
  • - Earn trusted client status and build relationships that extend beyond the project’s lifecycle
  • - Conduct knowledge transfer and training of end-users, including sharing best practices

Requirements

  • **What We’re Looking For **
  • - Minimum 3-5 years of experience working in the TPM space; Minimum of 5 years of experience working in TPM, with relevant work experience in trade promotion optimization and/or revenue growth management
  • - In-depth understanding of Trade processes to include deductions, settlements, trade check requests, trade accruals, and trade finance (interfaces, reporting, etc.)
  • - Demonstrated experience as a TPM consultant working in an established professional services organization
  • - Flexibility and adaptability - our Senior Consultants work on all aspects of the trade process and related process and technology initiatives
  • - Direct experience with TPM systems such as Exceedra, Demantra, AFS, CAS, etc.
  • - 4 year degree from an accredited college or university
Benefits
  • Our benefits include:
  • - Comprehensive Health and Wellness Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, and more)
  • - 401k with company contributions
  • - Paid vacation, personal days, holidays, and sick leave
  • - Paid Parental Leave and Family Building Benefits (Adoption, Surrogacy, and Infertility Support)
  • - Life and Disability Insurance
  • - Training and Professional Development investments, Tuition Assistance, and more
  • Visit Careers at Clarkston Consultingto learn more about our culture, benefits, and opportunities.
  • Clarkston Consulting is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to ensuring our firm is rich in diverse skills, competencies, strengths, personalities, and culture. We foster an inclusive environment that embraces the unique contributions of our people to further our purpose. Please visit Diversity @ Clarkston Consulting to learn more about our diversity initiatives.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
trade promotion optimizationtrade promotion managementfunctional requirements analysisproject managementtrade financedeductionssettlementstrade check requeststrade accrualsrevenue growth management
Soft skills
flexibilityadaptabilityrelationship buildingknowledge transfertrainingbest practices sharingcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingclient management