Sales and Marketing Analyst

Our client, a leading food company is hiring a sales & Marketing Analyst to join their growing team which is located at Markham, ON.

Location: Markham

Salary: $45K

Contract duration: May 2018 to June/July 2019

Position summary: The purpose of the role is to provide support to the Sales and Commercialization teams. Areas of specific importance are sales and financial analysis, monthly, quarterly and annual reporting/forecasting, price and margin management and market analysis.

Job duties and responsibilities:

§  Tableau and SharePoint Analysis and Reporting

o   Assisting VP in customer performance tracking vs. budget and year ago

o   Assist in identifying white space opportunities with Top 50 customers; provide support to sales team to close opportunities

o   Lead customer updates/reviews at monthly sales meeting

§  Pricing

o   Price change coordination and support

o   Price template and price list maintenance; accurately reflecting commodity and packaging cost changes

o   Assist with RFP submissions by providing competitive and accurate pricing & cost models

o   Price change tracking

o   Price change execution in JDE in conjunction with sales personnel and CSR’s

o   Developing and maintaining price master files by sku, by customer on FOB and delivered basis

§  Market Analysis

o   P/L share analysis by major segment and major market

o   Nielsen data analysis and existing product opportunity identification

o   New product opportunities

o   Mintel insights review, analysis and dissemination

§  Sales Support Material

o   Developing and maintaining sales sheets for all relevant product segments (visuals, romance copy, and technical, logistics and nutritional information)

o   Create and maintain product brochures for generic uses (trade shows) and specifics uses (customer presentations)

o   Work with commercialization to develop standards across plants for pallet configuration information by size and product type to be included on product sell sheets as appropriate

§  Sales presentation

o   Provide support to sales team in developing sale presentation for customers

o   Assist in adding creative elements in presentations

§  Pipeline

o   Coordinate timely communication of pipeline updates with sales team

o   Maintain pipeline files

o   Track actual past 12 months new product sales

o   Provide pipeline updates to management as needed (including quarterly updates for post reporting purposes)

o   Support sales team in key commercialization opportunities as defined by the Pipeline; assist sales team in managing other high priority commercialization projects

Qualifications:

·         Business Degree specializing in Finance or Marketing

·         Minimum 3 years of experience in finance or marketing role

·         Advance level MS Excel skills (v-lookup, h-lookup, pivot tables & macros)

·         Proven strong analytical capabilities

·         Demonstrated strong business acumen

·         Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate analytical results

·         Excellent time management and organizational skills

·         Strong sense of urgency and enthusiasm

·         Enabling attitude with a willingness to learn

·         Strong analytical skills

·         Self-motivated with little supervision

·         Ability to multi-task, flexible and adaptable to changing priorities

·         Result-oriented

·         Advanced interpersonal skills

HOW TO APPLY:

Please send your resume to resume@gc-employment.com with the subject line "Sales & Marketing Analyst - Markham"