Sr Manager, Trade Governance

Retail & Consumer Goods
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of business experience, preferably in Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry.
  • Strong background in analytic, commercial sales, or marketing roles.
  • Demonstrated commercial acumen and data-driven decision-making skills.
  • Familiarity with tool development, syndicated data, and promotional effectiveness.
  • Excellent communication skills for cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder influence.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

  • Drive compliance with Nestlé Next principles and fair trade practices.
  • Collaborate across departments to improve processes around deductions and fines.
  • Develop and distribute metrics for Nestlé Next performance to leadership teams.
  • Educate teams on compliance best practices and adherence to policies.
  • Resolve compliance issues and enhance visibility of trade practices.
  • Own the culture of compliance within customer management teams.
  • Assess and escalate compliance risks to senior leadership.

Benefits

  • 401k with company match.
  • Healthcare coverage.
  • Performance-based incentives.
  • Broad range of other benefits.
Full Job Description
This senior Revenue Growth Management (RGM) position on the Central RGM team will support the enterprise RGM, field RGM and field selling teams by driving compliance with Nestlé Next principles and fair and equitable trade practices. This position will play a critical role in ensuring our customer teams are compliant with Nestlé Next principles, defining and establishing fair and equitable trade investment strategies across our customer portfolio and holding our RGM and field teams accountable to these measures. This role will be responsible for: • Driving compliance with Nestlé Next principles and fair and equitable trade practices. - Working with RGM and field selling account teams to drive adherence to Nestlé Next trade principles. - Understand the impact investment decisions will have on fair and equitable trade practices within our categories, channels and customers. - Continuing to define and evolve future iterations of the Nestlé Next framework • Working cross-functionally with sales, legal, credit, and supply chain to evolve our processes around deductions, fees and fines. - Evolving Nestlé Next reporting and analytics to give visibility to compliance and potential issues. - Solving fundamental structural issues with practices that will help to drive resolution with customers on policy vs. policy issues with customers. - Educating cross-functional teams and stakeholders on best practices with customers and internal teams to look to improve Nestlé Next compliance. • Development and distribution of Nestlé Next scorecard metrics to Sales, RGM and division leadership. • Serving as the technical expert for Nestlé Next principles and fair and equitable trade practices. In this role you will be expected to: • Drive visibility and resolution to Nestlé Next compliance issues. • Drive visibility and adherence to fair and equitable trade practices within our customer management teams. • Work with legal to continue to define fair and equitable trade practices with customers. • Own driving a culture of compliance and good partnership between our field selling teams and customers. • Be a driven self-starter, identifying opportunities and being accountable for the execution of the initiatives • Escalate compliance risks to RGM and sales leadership. The Senior Manager role will report to the Director of Enterprise RGM and Trade Governance Experience & Skills • Minimum 8 years of business experience preferred, experience in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry a plus. • MBA/post graduate education a plus but not required • Strong track record in analytic or commercial sales/marketing roles required, commercial acumen is key • Drives confidence and momentum by providing the context and data / insights for others to think, decide and act • Understanding of one or more of: tool development, syndicated data, promotional effectiveness, sales finance • Familiarity with multiple data sources e.g. syndicated sales data, financial data, and consumer data • Excellent written and verbal communication skills across functions; collaborating with brand/category teams and other key internal/external stakeholders; effective in influencing wide variety of stakeholders • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel and PowerPoint) and systems aptitude • Need commercial experience (finance and/or sales) to guide internal conversations with sales/finance and external conversations with distributors/retailers • Need to understand end-to-end processes of planning to execution, including navigation of systems landscape • Change Management in complex business environment • This role requires robust stakeholder management and negotiation skills, responsible for making decisions around margin management • Understands the impact decisions will have on commercial landscape across the NUSA organization • Analytical thought partner who can determine which data is relevant to create actionable and measurable insights #LI-MR1 #LI-Hybrid Salary: $156,000.00 to $200,000.00 per year Bonus Eligibility: Yes The pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills and abilities as well as geographic location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at top of range. Nestlé offers performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Incentives and/or benefit packages may vary depending on the position. Learn more at https://www.nestlejobs.com/nestle-in-the-us-benefits

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