Job Description

Overview:
This position will be part of the Quaker Foods organization. This position contributes to the success of the Quaker by supporting the sales customer team(s). The Trade Admin will work with members of the Quaker Field sales customer team(s) 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 the customer team and maintain planning models in Sales Planner/Prosper, drafting contracts and entering them into customer systems, and performing other support activities for customer-facing roles. Responsibilities:

• Building effective relationships with the customer team is critical to success and therefore requires the Analyst to link with key contacts within the customer team to ensure strong customer based execution of tactical programs.
• Building and maintaining Sales Planner/Prosper planning models and communicating changes to internal finance staff to ensure alignment
• Ensuring that aligned calendar events that require adjustments are entered into all applicable systems in a timely manner (Sales Planner/Customer Portals)
• Ensuring contracts required for TPA contract verification are drafted accurately compared to the new or adjusted events, submitting contracts into customer systems, as required
• Becoming aware of business trends, economic conditions, customer developments, competitive activities, historical category learnings etc. to help make recommendations to customer teams
• 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