Trade Marketing Manager

Reckitt; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global hygiene and health company is seeking a Trade Marketing Manager in Ottawa, Ontario. This role involves owning the 4P strategy across multiple brands, leveraging data to drive market initiatives, and delivering insights for improved sales. The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of experience in sales or brand marketing, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint. Join to contribute to a healthier world by enhancing customer engagement through effective trade marketing strategies.

Benefits

Parental benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance

Qualifications

• 4+ years in Sales, Brand marketing, or Business Operations preferred.
• Experience with consumer-packaged goods or retail industry an asset.
• Strong Excel & PowerPoint skills (formulas, pivot tables).

Responsibilities

• Own the 4P strategy across multiple brands.
• Conduct in-depth data analysis of market strategies.
• Provide insights to support annual sales planning process.

Skills

Trade Marketing

Key Account Management

Consumer Insights

Analytical Skills

Collaboration Skills

Education

University degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Nielsen

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

We are Reckitt Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

About Essential Home

Essential Home is an agile and entrepreneurial business, with an obsession for results delivery and value creation.

You invest a lot of money, time and energy in the care of your house. You want it to be clean, hygienic, you want to feel protected. But there’s more. Because you want to do more for your house, you want to make it a home. A place to connect with family, friends and yourself. A place you are proud of, reflecting your personality, values and lifestyle. That makes your house a home.

We provide you with a range of superior products and solutions specifically designed to help you do more for your house and make it a home. And we make sure our products are developed with a conscious use of resources, limited to what is really needed.

Within our portfolio we have exceptional brands such as Air Wick, Resolve, Easy Off and Woolite locally as well as Mortein, Calgon & Cillit Bang amongst others globally.

About the role

The Trade Marketing Manager is responsible for supporting the Sales and Trade teams by enabling sales execution and leveraging data to drive in-market implementation of 4Ps initiatives. Key areas of responsibility include; guiding the Trade and Sales Directors on identifying 4Ps gaps, ensuring Retail Sales Teams are following through on closing the gaps, and mining insights for continuous improvement in our go-to-market strategies. The position is focused on driving in-market activity that leads to improved sales and share.

Your responsibilities

• Own the 4P strategy across multiple brands & assist in developing category/brand trade decks, focusing on using facts and data to create a winning growth stories for both Essential Home and their customers.
• Supports the Trade Marketing Team with in-depth data analysis of strengths and weaknesses of current market strategies and 4P tactics. Uncovers new brand and category building opportunities via the analysis
• Understands and applies Customer, Consumer, and Industry insights using multiple data sources: Nielsen, Customer POS, market research data, custom studies.
• Provides brand and category insights to support annual sales planning process, shapes 4P recommendations for Key Customers’ plans
• Understands national strategic framework and 4P pillars to drill down to the Customer level and understand how these strategies are working in-market. This includes using data and working closely with key account manager to make recommendations on opportunities for customizing national strategies for Key Customers.
• Works cross-functionally internally within the sales & operations planning to ensure alignment on delivering the 4Ps seamlessly
• Provides analysis of competitive promotion plans/activity and recommends defensive promotional strategies.
• Experience working with P&L’s is preferred
• Strong Excel & PowerPoint skills (formulas, pivot tables, chart creation)
• Measures performance and impact of initiatives.
• Communicates results clearly and effectively across the business using storytelling

The experience we're looking for

• University degree
• 4+ Years Sales, Brand marketing, or other Business Operations preferred
• Knowledge of consumer-packaged goods or retail industry an asset
• Ability to demonstrate strong analytical skills and using data to build a sell story
• Ability to independently conduct in-depth data analysis, develop own hypotheses, and then convert the data into insights to present strong, persuasive selling stories.
• Knowledge/ understanding of Syndicated Data (eg Nielsen) preferred
• Computer proficient (Microsoft Office, Nielsen/IRI)
• Curious, inquisitive, and open-minded with a drive to uncover deep insights.
• Independent sense of urgency; self-driven, and always willing to learn
• Good interpersonal and time management skills
• Enjoys working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

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The skills for success

Trade Marketing, Key Account Management, Account Management, Consumer Insights, Shopper Insights, Customer Insights, Category Analysis, Collaboration and partnership skills, Influencing, Commercial acumen, Strategy Execution, Operational Excellence

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.