Join us as Customer Operations Project Lead

Function: Customer Operations

Scope: National

Location: Bosques

Terms & Conditions: Full-time – Hybrid (onsite in the office three days per week). No national or international relocation bonus applies. 

Fluency in spoken and written English is required for global communication

MAIN RESPONSABILITIES:
• Ensure Promo Planning input deadlines with the CD team as per S&OP calendar
• Ensures Promo forecast is accurate (managed by in house customer planners or Hub customer planners)
• Ensures accurate FEU baseline information
• Ensures Promo forecast is aligned to total forecast with Planning team
• Collates total discretionary TTS forecast and submits to finance as part of S&OP cash up
• Ensures accrual capture in month in line with controls (Proof of Agreement + Approval as per SOA + prior to promo start date)
• Works with Claims teams to ensure speedy validation of Promo Claims against Accruals
• Manages prior periods reconciliation once claims are cleared (writeback and top ups) to prevent these being used by CD to manipulate in month performance
• Drive promotional learnings from TPA with the CBD team to improve future ROI on TTS deployed
• Provide visibility of bottom up TPM vs CSP budgets to allow CBDs to proactively make trade offs to adhere to budgets

Key Stakeholders:

• CO team – ensures the right performance of E2E tools
• CBD team – ensuring TPM/TPA is giving useful insights to the team
• CSP team – ensure that TPA learnings are incorporated into NRM L4 strategy to drive correct SPI by channel
• Finance – ensure TTS forecast is included accurately into S&OP cash up; ensure TTS TU and WBs are executed objectively
• Planning – ensure promo volume is integrated into total forecast

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 4+ years of experience in roles related to commercial execution or data‑driven decision‑making within commercial areas, including:CSP/CB roles or positions managing Trade Promotional Spend, Data analytics projects applied to commercial or customer-facing functions

• Experience in Customer Development, Customer Experience, Trade Marketing, or roles with direct customer interaction

• Experience in commercial IT projects (tool implementations, data management, or commercial systems support)

Advanced English (for global communication).

Technical Skills

• TTS fundamentals: buckets, contractual vs discretionary spend.

• OPSO: understanding of ROI measurement for promotions.

• Claims: intake, registration, validation, and impact on accruals/CWA.

• S&OP: understanding of baseline vs promo build-up within total forecast and TTS cash‑up role.

• Strong analytical mindset and ability to work with TPM/TPA tools and data-driven insights.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• WL 1D targeted; WL 1C candidates may be considered with strong functional background.

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