Trade Promo Analyst

Philips•Mississauga, ON

14h•CA$56,000 - CA$88,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Trade Promo Analyst will play a critical role in delivering high-quality trade promotion analytics and insights to support effective decision-making across the Canadian business. The role is heavily focused on promotional performance measurement, advanced data analysis, and trade spend reporting, with responsibility for ensuring analytical rigor, data integrity, and insight generation. As part of maternity leave coverage, this role ensures continuity in trade promotion reporting, optimization, and analytics. The analyst will act as the subject matter expert for trade promotion optimization tools (Sequoya), partnering closely with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain to evaluate promotional scenarios, improve ROI, and strengthen fact-based promotional planning.

Requirements

3+ years’ experience with a Bachelor's OR 4+ years of experience with Vocational Education in Sales, Data Analysis, Forecasting or equivalent.
Experience in an analytical role within CPG, Trade Marketing, Sales Operations, Finance, or Revenue Growth Management (RGM), required.
Advanced Excel expertise (i.e., pivot tables, complex formulas, lookups, data modeling, and scenario analysis).
Experience organizing or automating large datasets.
Strong analytical skills to interpret complex data and deliver clear insights.
Exposure to Trade Promotion Management (TPM) systems such as Adesso or Vistex and optimization tools like Sequoya.
Familiarity with BI tools including Power BI or Tableau.
Bachelor's Degree/ Vocational Education in Business Administration, Sales, Finance, Data Analytics or equivalent.
Excellent communication skills, clear and confident in presenting analytical insights in a way that’s easy for non‑technical stakeholders to understand.
Self-starter who quickly onboards, works independently, and manages multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment.
Strong analytical discipline and a proactive approach to every task.
Canadian work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.
Must reside in or within commuting distance to Mississauga, CA.

Nice To Haves

This is a 13-month fixed-term contract to cover a maternity leave.

Responsibilities

Support trade promotion analytics and reporting by performing post-event analyses to assess promotion effectiveness, incremental volume, lift, ROI, profitability, and cannibalization.
Build and maintain analytical models, dashboards, and standardized reports using advanced Excel and BI tools, ensuring insights are accurate, timely, and useful to Sales, Marketing, and Finance.
Monitor trends, risks, and opportunities in promotional performance and communicate clear, data‑based observations to the Trade Promo Manager and cross-functional partners.
Contribute to optimization activities by validating inputs, assumptions, and model outputs to ensure accuracy and consistency.
Assist in scenario modeling to evaluate promotional alternatives, improve ROI, and support customer and category planning.
Help translate optimization results into actionable promotional recommendations.
Track budgets, accruals, and actuals, assist with month-end closing, and contribute to forecasting of promotional spend and volumes.
Maintain data integrity across TPM, Sequoya, and financial systems, support system updates and enhancement testing, and document analytical processes for continuity.
Ensure promotional setup, evaluation, financial alignment, and volume insights consistently inform planning and operational decisions through regular collaboration with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain.