Assistant Manager Trade Budget

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Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

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About the role

Do you have a knack for balancing budgets? As a Assistant Manager Trade Bugdeting, you will be responsible for managing and monitoring all costs and expenses associated with Trade Marketing activities and analyzing the return on investment being generated with such activities periodically.

Your responsibilities

You will be responsible for:

• Managing trade marketing activities within the allocated budget; ensuring that actual expenditures do not exceed the trade budget.
• Analyzing and reporting any variations in the actual trade marketing expenditure versus budgeted. 
• Interact with key stakeholders (i.e. RSM, ASM, KAM, TSO etc.) and settle distributor claims amicably.
• Manage the costing of trade promotions periodically, or as needed
• Work with the Trade Marketing Manager for calculation of the Return on Investment resulting from trade promotion activities.
• Conduct periodic internal audits of key customers, identify the pertinent issues and suggest remedies.

The experience we're looking for

• Educated to a Bachelors degree or Masters (preferably) level in Accounting & Finance, from a recognised institute
• Minimum of 1 year work experience in a similar role working for an FMCG organization

The skills for success

• Effective Communication: Maintain on-going communication with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong analytical ability to analyze and rectify any fluctuations in Trade Marketing budgets
• Familiarity with Accounting policies
• Software skills:
  • Proficient user of MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Proficient user of JD Edwards and SnD Pro software.

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.

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