Channel Manager
Location
Illinois
Posted
35 days ago
Salary
$110K - $150K / year
Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglish
Job Description
• Implement the strategy and processes to optimize price to maximize both profitability and volume.
• Support processes and tools to manage pricing for large-scale customer conversions.
• Utilize customer VOC (both internal and external) to create new or improved pricing simplification, tools, and communications.
• Implement processes for distributor and contractor rebate programs that incentivize customers growth while optimizing profitability.
• Implement processes and tools that enable sales to effectively utilize customer rebates as additional leverage in selling conversations.
• Implement promotions for buying groups, national accounts, and specific products that energize all stakeholders and deliver growth.
• Work with National Account Managers and Buying Groups to engage in customer driven promotional opportunities.
• Utilize analytics to adjust and improve future promotion performance vs hypothetical or past performance.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Product Management, and IT to ensure alignment to strategic objectives.
• Analyze and track market share, and competitive landscape.
• Track all program effectiveness and recommend changes and improvements.
• Track partner performance metrics, analyze data, and report on KPIs to ensure goals are met.
• Provide partners with tools, training, and resources to effectively sell and support company products/services.
• Work closely with sales, marketing, and product teams to align channel strategies with overall business objectives.
• Stay informed on industry trends, competitor activities, and emerging technologies to identify new opportunities.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Finance or related field
- 5+ Years experience in channel management, product management, analyst, or similar field
- Strong track record of growing both top and bottom line via pricing, rebate, and promotion activities.
- Solid analytical skills with a strong understanding of key business and financial metrics such as sales and gross margins.
- Experience with business analytic tools such as PowerBI, Snowflake, and excel.
- Project management, collaboration, and interpersonal skills; demonstrated success communicating effectively across the business.
- Customer-focused, can-do mindset with a passion for problem-solving and commitment to excellence and continuous improvement
- Strong leadership abilities with experience working with cross-functional teams.
- Experience navigating a complex business while exercising attention to detail. Strong Ability to drive inferences.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting annual objectives.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans