Associate Trade Planning Manager
Core
Manage and allocate trade expenditures, support demand forecasting, and develop business insights to drive profitable growth and optimize trade spend effectiveness for assigned customers and channels.
Role type
Associate Trade Planning Manager
Builds
Trade strategies, financial plans, and management dashboards for CPG customers
Domain
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery
Required skills
Trade planning, financial acumen, demand forecasting, ROI analysis, budget reconciliation, cross-functional collaboration, data modeling, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, syndicated/POS data analysis
Preferred skills
CPG industry experience, trade management systems, Circana/Nielsen data experience
Technologies
Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, trade management systems, Circana, Nielsen
Responsibilities
Manage and allocate trade expenditures across customers and channels; Support annual planning, forecast development, and risk assessments; Reconcile trade spending against approved budgets; Analyze trade promotions and conduct post-promotion ROI evaluations; Develop management reporting and dashboards; Collaborate with Sales, Finance, and Marketing teams on joint business planning
Seniority
Mid-level, hands-on IC
