Trade Promotion Management Business Consultant

TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods; Calgary; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic business consultant to enhance their innovative solutions in the consumer goods sector. This role focuses on leveraging trade promotional management expertise to optimize processes and deliver exceptional value to clients. You will collaborate with a diverse team, utilizing your strong business acumen and communication skills to influence design choices and ensure successful project delivery. Join a forward-thinking company committed to sustainability and efficiency, where your contributions will make a significant impact on the future of food and consumer goods.

Qualifications

• Experience in sales or finance roles with exposure to TPM software is essential.
• Strong understanding of CPG functions including demand planning and finance.

Responsibilities

• Lead design sessions, gather customer requirements, and document decisions.
• Conduct unit testing and provide training for super users.

Skills

Trade Promotional Management Experience

Consumer Goods Functions Understanding

Exceptional Communication Skills

Business Acumen

Collaboration Skills

Tools

TPM Software

Job description

Join our team

TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods (TAC) is a great place to work. You can see it in our team members. The diversity of the team and their unique contributions set us apart from the competition. Our success is based as much on our future friendly team as the innovative technology solutions we offer.

Our team members include people like you – enthusiastic, innovative, passionate and energetic. We believe that you'll find our high-performance culture personally fulfilling, professionally challenging and financially rewarding.

Here’s the impact you will make and what we will accomplish together

TAC is leveraging our world-leading technology and innovation to tackle one of the most pressing social challenges of our time – achieving more efficient production while lowering the impact on the environment. We believe that by delivering data insights and digital solutions that empower and connect producers to consumers we can improve the quality, safety and sustainability of our food and consumer goods.

We offer an unmatched suite of innovative solutions and purpose-built applications for every participant in the supply chain, from seed manufacturers and farmers through to grocery stores and consumer goods companies. Our solutions are comprised of the latest technologies that enable our customers to optimize their businesses with more accuracy, efficiency and profit and create unified, trusted and sustainable food and consumer goods value chains.

The business consultant is responsible for all elements applicable to our product throughout the delivery of our projects. This includes ensuring that the design of our solutions is fit for purpose for our customers and documented, front end configuration of the application, documentation of interface specifications, unit testing, SIT & UAT support & guidance, super user training and hyper care support. They will utilise their strong business acumen to solve design decisions with process over customisation, advising our customers on best practice and influencing their design choices.

Here’s how

• Project Design
  • Lead in design sessions by gathering customer requirements, documenting configuration decisions, working with customers to address gaps with business processes before customisation and set expectations.
• Configuration
  • Front end configuration of the application to design specifications.
• Testing
  • Unit testing of the application prior to release to the customer, provision & maintenance of standard test scripts, SIT & UAT support.
• Training
  • Train the trainer for customer super users.
• Hypercare
  • Support through hypercare phase and knowledge transfer to support.

You're the missing piece of the puzzle

• TRADE PROMOTIONAL MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED
• CPG experience in either sales or finance roles with exposure to TPM software OR minimum 2 years as a business consultant deploying TPM software.
• Demonstrated understanding of consumer goods functions including demand planning, sales, finance accruals & settlements and RGM.
• Solid understanding of business process across CPG functions.
• Exceptional communication skills are essential.
• The ability to work & collaborate effectively with a remote team.
• The ability to combine strong business acumen with TPM application capability to effectively solve complex business requirements.

Join us

Collectively, our talented team and integrated solutions uniquely position us to transform collaboration within the industry at a global level, empowering and connecting producers to consumers for a more efficient, sustainable future.

Everyone belongs at TELUS. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do or how you do it, at TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods, your unique contribution and talents will be valued and respected. Because the more diverse perspectives we have the more likely we are to crack the code on what our customers want and our communities need.

Do you share our passion for enabling remarkable human outcomes?

Together, let’s make the future friendly.

Accessibility

TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods is proud to foster an inclusive culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to fair employment practices and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities, as required, during the recruitment process.

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