Sr Manager, Strategic Revenue Management

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At Nestle USA, we're all working towards the same goal - to delight and deliver for our consumers. With a rich portfolio of beloved brands, including DiGiorno, Toll House, and Coffee mate, in 97% of U.S. households, we have a unique opportunity - and responsibility - to be there for every moment in our consumers' lives.

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This senior SRM position will serve as the SRM Lead for the NWPB and Nutrition Divisions. This position will play a crucial role in aligning in-depth expertise of the SRM levers with deep commercial experience, translating how each SRM lever individually and in aggregate supports different Division and Channels/Customer teams to help them achieve their business goals. The role will be responsible for:

• Leading the SRM Team in the NWPB and Nutrition divisions
  • Foster a team culture of high performance, team development, and service orientation
  • Drive world-class SRM practices across the Arlington campus
• Supporting the execution of SRM deployment across divisions with thorough understanding of landscape, opportunities and trends
  • Work with division leaders, accounts and brands to identify profitable initiatives and opportunities
  • Understand the impact decisions will have on the commercial landscape
  • Steadily discipline and drive cultural change towards SRM capabilities
  • Create and actively drive the brand plans to embed SRM enablers (data, systems, process, capabilities) in collaboration with key SME groups
• Continuously evolve, develop, build and share SRM best practices for Price, Promo, PPA, Mix/Assortment across divisions
  • Conduct thorough analysis and synthesize insights into actionable recommendations
  • Monitor current execution of SRM practices to refresh feedback loop and evolution
  • Support plans and drive stakeholder management to standardize SRM practices across the organization
• Support alignment of business targets to SRM vision
• Support development of Price/Promo capabilities across divisions:
  • Drive multi-lens market analyses for pricing opportunity identification and impact estimation
  • Support identification of pricing opportunities and develop pricing scenarios with Brand/Sales to optimize pricing architecture
  • Support recommendations on Pricing per channel/customer and improvements to deliver agreed upon targets, as well as driving the SRM enablers (data, system, process and capabilities) agenda
  • Develop deep understanding of pricing (slope, curves, elasticities)
  • Drive promo strategy and provide real-time actionable recommendations on marketplace intelligence, pre-event analysis, and gap closing

• Support the definition and execution of Price-Pack Architecture across divisions:
  • Support definition and execution of optimized Pack Price architecture (right pack at the right price in the right channel & ensuring profit expectations of both Nestle & customer are satisfied) through fully understanding consumer, shopper & customer needs across prioritized channels
  • Continually monitor for PPA optimization opportunities
  • Support deep dive into the business, using analytics to uncover growth opportunities and refined competitive positioning, including pricing opportunities, pack size opportunities, to help NUSA win in our current categories
• Define and execute Mix & Assortment across divisions:
  • Support and drive choices about which parts of our portfolio to drive in which channels/customers to win profitable share and growth
• Be the point of contact between SRM and RGM:
  • Support the tracking and measurement financial impact of SRM initiatives
  • Provide deep understanding of SRM levers and the impact on the different P&L lines
  • Continuous interaction with RGM to ensure alignment of SRM ambitions and insights with the day-to-day execution in the field

In this role you will be expected to:

• Drive high-level SRM strategy across a set of senior stakeholders
• Lead and develop a dedicated SRM team
• Have deep understanding on the business drivers & KPIs, and how the SRM levers directly or indirectly impacts them
• Provide holistic, end-to-end view of the challenges and opportunities to implement and improve SRM capabilities across divisions
• Own driving a culture of consistent and sustained profitable growth
• Be a driven self-starter, identifying opportunities and being accountable for the execution of the initiatives

The SRM role will report to the Senior Director, SRM and will shape the SRM team's ways of working across the Arlington campus.

Experience & Skills

• 7-10 years of Business experience preferred, experience in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry a plus.
• 2+ years related Strategic Pricing experience preferred
• MBA/post graduate education a plus but not required
• People management experience strongly preferred
• Strong track record in analytic or commercial sales/marketing roles, commercial acumen is key
• Drives confidence and momentum by providing the context and data / insights for others to think, decide and act
• Understanding of one or more of: tool development, syndicated data, promotional effectiveness, sales finance
• Familiarity with multiple data sources e.g. syndicated sales data, financial data, and consumer data
• Experience with Excel, Access, SAP, Azure, SQL, Visualization Software (PowerBI experience preferred) to solve business problems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across functions; collaborating with brand/category teams and other key internal/external stakeholders; effective in influencing wide variety of stakeholders
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel and PowerPoint) and systems aptitude
• Need commercial experience (sales, marketing, finance) to guide internal conversations with marketing/sales/finance and external conversations with distributors/retailers
• Need to understand end-to-end processes of planning to execution, including navigation of systems landscape
• Change Management in complex business environment
• This role requires robust stakeholder management and negotiation skills, responsible for making decisions around margin management
• Understands the impact decisions will have on commercial landscape across the NUSA organization
• Analytical thought partner who can determine which data is relevant to create actionable and measurable insights

It is our business imperative to remain a very inclusive workplace.

To our veterans and separated service members, you're at the forefront of our minds as we recruit top talent to join Nestle. The skills you've gained while serving our country, such as flexibility, agility, and leadership, are much like the skills that will make you successful in this role. In addition, with our commitment to an inclusive work environment, we recognize the exceptional engagement and innovation displayed by individuals with disabilities. Nestle seeks such skilled and qualified individuals to share our mission where you'll join a cohort of others who have chosen to call Nestle home.

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