Trade Promotion Management (TPM) Consultant

at  Clarkston Consulting

Do you want the opportunity to leverage your skills to make a direct impact on the world’s leading life sciences, consumer products, and retail companies? Join Clarkston Consulting as a Trade Promotion Management (TPM) Consultant to help deliver creative business solutions to our market-leading clients as a part of our team of experienced professionals.
We are looking for motivated, self-driven leaders who are energized by team results and interested in joining a firm that values its culture and people as its biggest strengths. Together, we can help find the answers to our clients most challenging business problems.
What You’ll Do

As a Trade Promotion Management (TPM) Consultant at Clarkston, you will:

• Help leading consumer goods companies shape and implement business process or technology improvements to yield gains in all facets of the Trade Promotion Management (TPM) lifecycle: Annual Planning, Budgeting, Customer Planning, Retail Execution, Settlements, Measuring & Reporting, and Category Optimization
• Leverage your experience with one or more trade systems (e.g., Exceedra, Demantra, AFS, CAS etc.) to facilitate all aspects of a TPM implementation
• Translate business processes into functional requirements. This may include recommendations on leveraging current technologies and assessing software vendors based on organizational needs
• Share best practices, industry knowledge, and personal expertise to educate both clients and fellow consultants, in formal and ad hoc settings
• Assist in the creation and management of project plans and timelines, define project deliverables, identify and track issues and their resolution, and help to manage project scope and requirements
• Earn trusted client status and build relationships that extend beyond the project’s lifecycle
• Conduct knowledge transfer and training of end-users, including sharing best practices

How You’ll Grow

Beyond your day-to-day responsibilities, throughout your career at Clarkston you will:

• Receive the support and mentorship of your Clarkston colleagues and leaders
• Expand your existing skillset with internal and external professional development opportunities

REQUIREMENTS

What We’re Looking For:

• Minimum 3-5 years of experience working in the TPM space
• In-depth understanding of Trade processes to include deductions, settlements, trade check requests, trade accruals, and trade finance (interfaces, reporting, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience as a TPM consultant working in an established professional services organization
• Flexibility and adaptability - our Senior Consultants work on all aspects of the trade process and related process and technology initiatives
• Direct experience with TPM systems such as Exceedra, Demantra, AFS, CAS, etc.
• 4 year degree from an accredited college or university

• Receive the support and mentorship of your Clarkston colleagues and leaders
• Expand your existing skillset with internal and external professional development opportunitie