Analyst Trade Promotion Management

Job Title: Analyst, Trade Promotion Management

Job Location: Hershey, PA

COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Mandate

This position requires that you must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 (even if working remotely) and present proof of vaccination before beginning employment. If you receive an offer of employment, you will be asked as part of the background check process to upload a copy of your vaccination card. If you believe you require an accommodation for medical or religious reasons related to the vaccine safety mandate, you may submit a request after you receive an offer of employment. Instructions on how to do so will be provided in your offer letter.

This position is open to sponsorship.

This position is open for 100% remote.

Major Duties/Responsibilities:

The Hershey Company is seeking an Analyst to support our Trade Promotion Management (TPM) solution applications. This role is part of the Sales & Commercial Planning Solutions - Information Services (IS) Team.

The Analyst will partner with Hershey's IS, Sales/Trade Planning stakeholders, and an Application Managed Service (AMS) provider to ensure executional excellence of our TPM solution. The Analyst will be directly responsible for daily operational tasks and continuous improvement initiatives that promote Hershey's TPM Applications and Testing and validating the solutions.

Ideal candidate should have competed graduation in Computer Sciences and mush have programming experience preferably with languages like Python/ JAVA.

The scope of the role includes day-to-day operational support, capability enhancements, and continuous improvement to ensure a best-in-class solution that drives maximum value for the business.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Maintain the TPM Applications, ensuring system and process health.
• Provide support within established SLA's to Business around Trade Promotion Solution related issues.
• Pick up enhancements for Trade Promotion Applications to improvise the solution performance and efficiency of overall Processes.
• Enable the business through continuous improvement opportunities within the toolset.
• Complete all necessary documentation per standards established.

Summary of major duties:

• Provide operational support to internal and external users that fall under the responsibility of the TPM team.
• Recommend and implement continuous improvement initiatives to enable functionality within the TPM Applications toolset.
• Provide support as part of assigned project cross-functional work teams and recommend best practices to teams that implement new applications into Hershey's digital ecosystem.
• Perform compliance testing throughout the year per established schedules.
• Seek out opportunities for learning and growing that will enable the TPM team to expand capabilities to the program.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree (Computer Science preferred)
• Programming experience (Python/JAVA preferred)

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required to successfully perform major duties/responsibilities:

• Bachelors (Computer Science preferred)
• Programming experience (Python/JAVA preferred)
• Communication skills
• Presentation Skills
• Advanced Excel/PowerPoint

Preferable/Nice to have

• Business Intelligence or Reporting tools experience
• UI/UX Development
• SQL / Working with Databases

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