Trade Promo Analyst

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Description de poste

Note: This is a 13-month fixed-term contract to cover a maternity leave

The Trade Promo Analyst plays a critical role in delivering high-quality trade promotion analytics and insights to support effective decision-making across the Canadian business. The role is heavily focused on promotional performance measurement advanced data analysis and trade spend reporting with responsibility for ensuring analytical rigor data integrity and insight generation.

As part of maternity leave coverage this role ensures continuity in trade promotion reporting optimization and analytics. The analyst will act as the subject matter expert for trade promotion optimization tools (Sequoya) partnering closely with Sales Marketing Finance and Supply Chain to evaluate promotional scenarios improve ROI and strengthen fact-based promotional planning.

Your role:

Trade Promotion Analytics & Reporting (Primary Focus)

• Lead execution of post-promotional analysis assessing promotion effectiveness incremental volume lift ROI profitability and cannibalization.
• Develop and maintain robust repeatable analytical models to evaluate promotional performance across customers brands and promotional mechanics.
• Produce recurring and ad-hoc trade promotion reports for Sales Marketing and Finance ensuring insights are timely accurate and decision-oriented.
• Design enhance and maintain dashboards and standardized reporting using advanced Excel techniques and BI tools (e.g. Power BI).
• Proactively identify trends risks and opportunities in trade promotion performance and clearly communicate insights and recommendations to the Trade Promo Manager.

Trade Promotion Optimization (Sequoya SME)

• Act as the subject matter expert (SME) for Sequoya supporting trade promotion optimization activities and scenario analysis.
• Maintain and validate inputs assumptions and outputs within Sequoya to ensure model accuracy and reliability.
• Support optimization analyses to evaluate promotional alternatives improve ROI and inform customer and category strategies.
• Partner with Sales Marketing and the Trade Promo Manager to translate optimization outputs into actionable promotional recommendations.

Trade Spend Management & Financial Support

• Track trade spend budgets accruals and actuals supporting month-end close variance analysis and financial reporting in collaboration with Finance.
• Support forecasting of promotional spend and volumes to inform financial planning and demand planning processes.
• Ensure accurate timely and consistent data entry reconciliation and validation within TPM and optimization systems.

Process Systems & Data Integrity

• Support day-to-day operation of Trade Promotion Management (TPM) systems including promotion setup updates and data validation.
• Ensure alignment and consistency between TPM Sequoya financial systems and reporting outputs.
• Assist in testing system enhancements new reports and process improvements related to trade promotion analytics and optimization.
• Maintain clear documentation of analytical models reports and processes to support continuity and knowledge transfer.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with Sales teams to support analytical requests promotion evaluation and performance reviews.
• Collaborate with Marketing to validate promotional mechanics timing and product mix for analysis and optimization.
• Work with Finance to ensure trade spend reporting accruals and post-event financial analysis are aligned and accurate.
• Provide promotional volume insights to Supply Chain to support forecasting and inventory planning.

Youre the right fit if:

• Bachelors degree in Business Commerce Finance Economics Statistics or a related quantitative field.
• 13 years of experience in an analytical role within CPG Trade Marketing Sales Operations Finance or Revenue Growth Management (RGM).
• Advanced Excel proficiency is essential including pivot tables complex formulas lookups data modeling and scenario analysis; experience automating or structuring large datasets is strongly preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex datasets and translate findings into clear insights.
• Experience or exposure to Trade Promotion Management (TPM) systems (e.g. Adesso Vistex) is preferred.
• Experience with Trade Promotion Optimization tools (e.g. Sequoya) is a strong asset.
• Experience with BI tools such as Power BI Tableau or similar is an asset.
• Ability to quickly onboard work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present analytical insights to non-technical stakeholders.

Additional Information

• This is a 13-month fixed-term contract to cover a maternity leave.
• The role requires a strong analytical self-starter who can ensure continuity accuracy and insight-driven support throughout the contract period.
• Can start as soon as possible

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

Philips Transparency Details

The annual pay range for this position is $60000 to $ actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills experience business needs geographical location and internal equity.

In addition other compensation such as an annual incentive bonus sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered. Employees areeligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program which includes a generous PTO DC Pension Flex Dollars(for HSA/PSA/RRSP) stock purchase plan education reimbursement and much more. Details about our Canada benefits can be foundhere.

At Philips it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions aredependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case.

Additional Information

Canadian work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa now or in the future.

Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position. For this position you must reside within commuting distance to the Philips office in Mississauga ON.

Philips Canada is committed to treating all people in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity and independence. We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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Philips Canada is committed to treating all people in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity and independence. We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.