Mars (New)
**Job Description:*** **Lead portfolio pricing strategy and price-value plans** to maximize profitability and volume, collaborating with Marketing, Finance, and Sales teams.* **Co-pilot trade investment strategy** with Sales Leadership, ensuring alignment with growth and profit objectives.* **Manage trade investment budgets**, monitor trade spend effectiveness, and oversee promotions, incentives, and trade costs.* **Design innovative trade architecture** to enhance customer centricity and trade investment productivity, partnering with Demand, Supply, and Finance.* **Lead execution of pricing plans** by channel and segment, ensuring competitiveness and goal achievement.* **Analyze internal and external data** to identify pricing and trade investment opportunities.* **Manage key stakeholder relationships** to ensure smooth implementation of strategies.* **Monitor and report critical KPIs** related to pricing, investment, and profitability, recommending corrective actions.* **Drive operational excellence** in pricing and trade investment processes, promoting best practices and continuous improvement.* **Support business growth** by managing an annual trade investment budget of and contributing to NSV.* Proven ability to analyze internal and external data sources, extract actionable insights, and make strategic recommendations.* Successful track record of turning strategies into action and delivering measurable results, including presenting to senior leaders.* Deep functional expertise in pricing strategy—understanding the impact of price-value decisions across Consumer, Customer, Competitor, and Company.* Hands-on experience in pricing analysis, including market monitoring, scenario planning, and optimizing profit and growth levers.* Strong grasp of investment strategy, understanding how trade investment decisions affect the P&L and customer outcomes.* Direct experience in investment analysis, building models, scenario planning, and making clear recommendations to maximize margins and profit pools.* Advanced financial acumen and commercial awareness, with the ability to drive continuous improvement and organizational agility.* Excellent interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills; proactive attitude to challenge the status quo and foster innovation.* Demonstrated leadership capabilities—able to manage, develop, and inspire teams to achieve high performance.* Ability to engage and influence stakeholders across the organization, driving collaboration and talent development.* Work with 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 a company bonus.We are seeking a strategic leader for the **CCA SRM Manager** role responsible for driving profitable growth through pricing management, trade investment, and trade architecture in the local market.
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