Hybrid Portfolio / Project Manager – Supplier Collaboration Team

at The Tecsa Group

• Job title: Portfolio / Project Manager – Supplier Collaboration Team
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bradford, United Kingdom

About the role

• Experienced Portfolio/Product Manager joining an expanding CPG insights team for major grocery client. Driving use of cutting-edge tools to leverage insights and support client capabilities.

Responsibilities

• We are seeking an experienced Portfolio/Product Manager to join our rapidly expanding CPG insights team for our major grocery client.
• Drive the use of our cutting-edge tools and support how we leverage insights to build your client’s (i.e. Coke) capability in answering key questions around category strategy, customer trends, assortment, promotional activities and customer activation.
• Support the team in Go To Market launches of new product offerings. This includes Webinars, mass mail outs, and other front-line sales comms.
• Build product knowledge to be able to support Front line sales team with accurate information, including future features as they become available.
• Support new propositional developments as we seek to expand our offering.
• Understand in detail the release timeline, and what restrictions that puts on when Suppliers can be submitted and their timeline to launch and communicate and manage with the team.
• Lead program of supplier client feedback to ensure we offer excellent product offering and client service.
• Lead and embed new systems and processes that enable the wider team to operate more effectively end to end.
• Collaborate with front line sales, and account management, resolving client issues as they arise in a timely fashion.
• Processing contracts quickly and accurately, fielding contract questions, and gaining sign off as clients reach price agreed in the sales process.
• Manage a Sales inbox ensuring it is organised appropriately and suppliers responded to quickly.
• Accountable for ensuring suppliers are onboarded as quickly as possible, with as few issues as possible.
• Manage the integrity of the detailed sales tracker to enable good performance tracking, proposing enhancements where appropriate.
• Accurately update the Accounts Payable team as deals are signed.

Requirements

• Tecsa are seeking degree standard individuals with Marketing or business studies experience for an Insights Sales Executive role as part of our Insight collaboration team.
• Preference for experience in the retail industry, ideally Grocery.
• An organised individual, able to hold the status in mind of several clients at one time, confident working with Google sheets/Microsoft Excel and other Google and Microsoft productivity tools.
• Client facing role - The ideal candidate will thrive by building a deep understanding of the MoreViu insight platform, and excelling at building relationships and demonstrating strong client management skills
• You will work along-side our passionate, driven and supportive Supplier CPG consultants in a fast-paced environment.
• A strong business development and commercial mindset.
• Ability to think on their feet and work through problems methodically.
• Loves collaborating within a supportive but fast-paced environment.
• Excellent proactive thinking skills and communication that helps identify and solve problems before they become problems.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team to ensure suppliers have a best in class service to enable their work/services with Tecsa.
• An active learner with an inquisitive mind and talent for problem solving.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• A supportive, driven culture and a great team with an outstanding mix of talent and experience
• A dynamic environment in which you can personally learn, develop and make an impact
• Strong involvement in shaping a growing Tech business from its early days