Job Description:
The SRM Manager partner with markets/channels/customers to adopt and implement cluster SRM strategy and priorities locally.
The SRM Manager translates cluster guidelines and frameworks to the local investment choices, pricing and promo plans.
Proactively coordinates market decisions in line with cluster SRM agenda, using all 4 levers of SRM in tune/balance. Ensures local steering and governance to keep relentless focus on value creation and Trade ROI improvement.
What are we looking for?- Advanced/fluent English language skills required (both written and oral)
- 2-3 years of experience in SRM
- Additional Demand or Sales experience preferred
- High analytical ability
- MLCs: Business insight, Balances stakeholders, Plans and aligns, Financial acumen, Optimizes work processes, Drives results
- Develops markets level SRM plans based on the total cluster SRM strategy, framework and guidelines.
- Defines market level annual SRM targets based on cluster AEP commitments.
- Partners, governs and monitors annual SRM targets delivery, proactively initiates scenario planning and gap closing activities. Ensuring agreed actions are followed through.
- Conducts internal&external analysis of SRM metrics across markets, cells and category players, including financial and shopper metrics. Derives insights and maps the opportunities to maximize value creation at a local level.
- Informs annual planning cycle with the market insights, rpoviding quantitative and qualitative SRM inputs.
- Provides market level SRM inputs to S&OP+ forums (SRM council, Pricing council, DMR, PMR, MBR etc), ensures proper feedback loop between market and cluster SRM, coordinates market decisions in line with SRM roadmap and principles.
- Owns local pricing roadmap, creates and aligns SKU level pricing proposals in line with cluster pricing&PPA guidelines and commitments.
- Work with over 140,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.
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What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us.
Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™.
We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
