Business Support Specialist

p style="margin: 0px;"strongspan style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Business Support Specialist/span/strong/pp style="margin: 0px;"nbsp;/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"We are seeking a dynamic Business Support Specialist to work closely with the Sales Team to ensure that our clientrsquo;s brand marketing and consumer strategies are implemented. This role collaborates with the Sales Team, Suppliers and Retailers to assist with achieving growth objectives. This role is focused on project coordination and administration of key sales tasks./span/pp style="margin: 0px;"nbsp;/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"The Company is one of North Americarsquo;s leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management, and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers, and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics, and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today./span/pp style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"nbsp;/span/pp style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"strongspan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Essential Responsibilities/span/strong/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"- Responsible for executing the following key sales administration tasks accurately and timely:/span/pullispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Price Changes/span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"New Item Forms/span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Assist with vendor set up./span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Partner with suppliers on PO queries / Late deliveries /span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Cash collection, deductions/span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Updates to Promotional Grid and dashboards for Business Manager review/span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Maintain category hierarchies./span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Ad tracking and sharing with suppliers./span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Manage and track revenue accruals by supplier./spannbsp;/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"- Supports the Sales Team with the following: /span/pullispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Contract management/span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Supplier forecasts/span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Supplier Collaborative Business Plan updates/span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Weekly/Monthly tracker updates/span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Category reviews ndash; data pulls and analysis of data./span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Product Development - Managing Product Cuttings and documenting results./spannbsp;/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"- Project Coordination/span/pullispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Facilitates and assists with driving projects through the process, working closely with the Sales Team, and cross functional teams to achieve project milestones within established timeframes./span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Assists the Sales Team on new projects by collecting and organizing all support data (sales data, market insights, trends, competitor reviews, etc.) for new projects enabling quicker turnaround and decision making by the Sales Team./spannbsp;/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"- Communication/span/pullispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Proactively communicates with retailers, suppliers, internal teams and/or third-party teams to ensure objectives are met./span/li/ulp style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"strongspan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Supervisory Responsibilities /span/strong/pp style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"uspan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Direct Reports/span/u/pp style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"- This position does not have supervisory responsibilities for direct reports/span/pp style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"uspan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Indirect Reports/span/u/pp style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"- Does not have direct reports, but may delegate work of others and provide guidance, direction and mentoring to indirect reports/span/pp style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"nbsp;/span/pp style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"strongspan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Minimum Qualifications /span/strong/pp style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Education Level: (Required):nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Bachelor's Degreenbsp;nbsp;nbsp; or equivalent experience /span/pp style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Field of Study/Area of Experience: Retail experience is preferential or 2 or more years of experience in accounting, administration would be useful./span/pp style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"nbsp;1-3+ Years of experience in similar role, preferably within the retail industry./span/pp style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"nbsp;/span/pp style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt;"strongspan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Knowledge, Skills and Abilities /span/strong/pullispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office with a focus on Excel./span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Good written and verbal communication skills./span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Must be accurate and timely with completing work./span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Previous experience in the consumer goods industry is considered a plus./span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Proactive and curious with ability and desire to find the root causes of issues and develop process and methodology to prevent reoccurrences/span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Ability to work unsupervised and meet critical deadlines/span/lilispan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Methodical and process driven to ensure milestones are achieved in projects/span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"nbsp;/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Job Will Remain Open Until Filled/span/p

Created: 2024-11-01