Company Description

BIC® products are recognized all over the world for their quality, safety, affordability and ease of use. The ballpoint pen, the pocket lighter, and the shaver are all part of the daily lives of millions of consumers. These products make BIC® an iconic international brand, present in more than 4 million retail outlets in more than 160 countries around the world.

BIC?s founder, Marcel Bich, understood that to succeed, BIC needed hands-on team members who were willing to take measured risks and assume responsibility for their role in a team. Today, we provide our more than 15,000 team members in 61 countries with the opportunity to invent BIC?s future ? together ? while honoring our past achievements. We are committed to our team members? development and empower those who wish to discover different areas of our business or acquire international experiences.

Job Description

Reporting to the Sales Manager Portugal, The Trade Marketing Associate is responsible for the support of the sales force to provide them with the information about the internal reporting tools and to bring them the necessary KPIs on their respective performance allowing them to define better their objectives and be more performant.

The Trade Marketing Associate is a key element to build the effective connection between sales and all other departments of the subsidiary.

• In charge of BDF (in charge of checking respect of all contractual conditions, respect of sales policy in terms of rappels for example):
  • Introduce into the system the contracts and their respective terms and conditions
  • Review every quarter the turnover associated to each contract and consequently update the system
  • Checking the accuracy of back-margin
    invoices upon request of Finance
  • Update of the rappels dashboard
• Salesforce support on internal tools.
• Key contact between Portugal and Service Desk for any issue with IT tools.
• Ensure the follow-up of visibility and in-store actions, trade promos:
  • For each action or promo, build a dashboard updated every month following-up the evolution of the action in terms of point of sales, depending on channels, categories, chains,etc...
• Give support to Co-Packing Activities for BTS liaising with MKT/KAMs and Local Forester

Qualifications

• Master degree with a major in Economics, Market Research or business administration
• 1 or 2 years of professional experience (including internships) in the field of analytics, trader marketing
• Good command of Microsoft Office, especially Excel (including VBA, Macros)
• Fluent Portuguese and English
• Strong analytical skills
• Able to work closely with other departments, communication and teamwork
• Rigorous and well organized
• Able to work with short deadlines

CVs must be sent in English

Additional Information

BIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly commit to hiring people with different backgrounds and experiences to help us build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our customers. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status, or similar characteristics. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

BIC is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this employment opportunity. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by search firms to any team member at BIC via email, or directly to a BIC team member in any form without a valid written search agreement in place for that position will be deemed the sole property of BIC, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by BIC as a result of the referral or through other means.