Retail SAP Commercial Spend/Trade Promotion Management Manager

Retail SAP Commercial Spend Trade Promotion Manager

Are you an innovative thinker with a proven track record of helping Consumer Products & Retail companies transform their workforce to achieve their business goals?

The Consumer industry is focused on serving the changing consumer, who has rapidly evolving needs, behaviors and preferences for products, services, and experiences. Our Consumer Products and Retail sector is undergoing a transformation fueled by an empowered consumer, technology advancements, market fragmentation and blurring lines across the industry. Organizations are racing to compete for the consumer's attention and win share of wallet, which is creating unique challenges to innovate, modernize technology and transform business models with the winners ultimately seeing this as a consumer-led renaissance.

The Team

Our SAP team focuses on design, implementation, and on-going operations and maintenance of SAP applications and technology. Professionals will have hands-on access and exposure to the latest technologies and thought leaders.

We work with clients who want to improve their ability to react on digital world and enable scalability, remove performance barriers, enable innovation, and modernize core systems and reimagine their business with SAP digital solutions. Applications include SAP S/4HANA and Cloud (Hybris, Ariba, IBP, SuccessFactors, and SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud) across the following capabilities:

• Finance
• Supply Chain
• Customer and Sales Operations
• Technology (Mobility and User Experience, Cloud and Virtualization, Data Management and Analytics)

• providing service excellence by identifying key client business issues, determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches, evaluating and validating analysis and developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement.
• You will be expected to implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance. Managers participate in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities.

• 6+ years of professional experience in a consulting or Consumer industry setting, acting as internal consultant, with demonstrable depth of knowledge
• 6+ years of experience working in retail industry (merchandisers, specialty apparel, footwear, large food or drug stores, big-box stores) corporate or retail environment.
• SAP Trade and Promotion Management Software is a must.
• Functional knowledge of key end-to-end processes, Planning, Trade Planning. Deep understanding of Commercial Processes, challenges and trends within Retail and Consumer Products.
• End-to-end processes for trade Experience overseeing trade promotion planning and management, advanced trade management analytics, and customer business planning
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Immigration: Limited sponsorship may be available

• Strong project management and delivery experience, including budget oversight and staffing of project teams including time management.

• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment.

• Previous experience mentoring, training and developing junior members of the team; experience in employee performance reviews.

• Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments.

• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint). Working knowledge and experience of MS Office applications and training development tools.

• Located within a commutable distance of a Deloitte office.