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Company: MOSH

Job Title: Manager, Strategic Finance & Analytics

Start Date: ASAP

Location: Must be located in or around the Los Angeles area and willing to work out of an office the majority of the week.

Application instructions: Please email your resume, cover letter and favorite Excel keyboard shortcut to [email protected]. Applying solely through LinkedIn will result in automatic disqualification of your candidacy 🙂

Manager, Strategic Finance & Analytics:

We are seeking a talented Manager, Strategic Finance & Analytics to join our lean but dynamic team at MOSH. We believe in a data-driven approach that forms the backbone of our decision-making process and business growth. This role is pivotal in driving insights across all our operations, from customer acquisition to retention, unit economics, and perhaps even influencing our future product pipeline. Reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer, the ideal candidate will have a comprehensive business skillset that includes data analytics, finance, accounting, project management expertise.

Key Responsibilities:

·     Collaborate with the COO to develop and manage the company’s budget, forecast future financial performance, and provide strategic financial planning guidance to the management team.

·     Conduct financial analysis to evaluate the company’s financial performance and identify opportunities for growth and improvement. This includes analyzing raw sales data, pricing, cost of goods sold, cash conversion cycles, and other key financial metrics.

·     Prepare and present financial reports to the management team and board of directors, including monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.

·     Lead high-priority projects in collaboration with our marketing, sales and operations leaders, including retention optimization initiatives, forecasting optimization, and margin improvement opportunities.

·     Manage and optimize data dashboards and trackers, such as LTV, cohort analysis, retention curves, acquisition performance, and executive KPI dashboards.

·     Prepare financial reports for investors and board of directors’ meetings.

·     Lead ad-hoc analyses to support our business with data-driven insights.

·     Lead strategic assessment of future product innovation pipeline, including market assessment, competitive landscape, and consumer research/surveys.

·     Collaborate with the COO to develop a comprehensive data stack and business intelligence framework and automate KPI dashboards.

Requirements:

·     4-6 years of experience in startups, banking, private equity, VC, management consulting, or a similar field.

·     Strong technical skills, including proficiency in SQL, Python, and experience using BI/Analytics tools.

·     Excellent analytical and modeling skills, preferably with experience in Excel. You must know all the keyboard shortcuts.

·     Deep understanding of best-in-class accounting practices.

·     Experience managing rigorous A/B testing projects.

·     Strong project management skills, showcasing extensive experience working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders on cross-functional initiatives.

·     Highly collaborative and constructive working style that strives for excellence.

·     Experience in Consumer Goods, Subscription eCommerce, and/or Digitally-Native business (strongly preferred).

·     Excitement for both analytical problem-solving and driving execution.

·     Positive attitude and willingness to jump in on all kinds of projects.

·     Strong desire to learn, complemented by openness to coaching and development.

MOSH

At GoodUnited, we use conversational messaging technology and human insight to help nonprofits acquire and activate supporters, build meaningful relationships at scale, and grow revenue in social channels.

A Technical Customer Success Manager (TCSM) at GoodUnited plays a critical role in ensuring customer satisfaction via platform adoption, retention, and growth by providing technical support and guidance throughout the customer lifecycle. The key responsibilities include the following:

• Onboarding: Assist new customers in the onboarding process by providing technical guidance, understanding their requirements, and ensuring successful integration of the SaaS solution into their workflows.
• Adoption: Manage customers to utilize the platform functionality to the best of its potential. Acquiring subscribers, updating and designing engaging Messaging journeys and driving revenue through Grow campaigns.
• Customer Success: Understand your customer’s unique needs and requirements and ensure their success using the SaaS product.
• Training and Education: Develop and deliver training materials, webinars, and workshops to help customers effectively use the SaaS product and understand its features and capabilities.
• Product Feedback: Gather customer feedback, identify trends, and communicate product improvement suggestions to the product management and development teams to help enhance the product’s functionality and usability.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with various internal teams, including Sales, Account Management, Professional Services, Support, Product, and Engineering, to ensure seamless customer experience and coordinated efforts to address customer needs.
• Monitoring and Reporting: Track customer usage, engagement, and satisfaction metrics, and provide periodic reports to management to aid in strategic decision-making.
• Escalation Management & Tech Support: Manage and resolve escalated customer issues, coordinating with internal Support team as needed, to ensure timely and satisfactory resolution, resulting in customer satisfaction.
• Industry Knowledge: Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies to better support customers and contribute to the company’s growth.
• Develop new journeys based on feedback from nonprofits and supporters
• Optimize existing journeys based on data, analysis and feedback from nonprofits and Subscribers

Overall, a Technical Customer Success Manager at GoodUnited is responsible for ensuring customers receive the highest level of technical support and service, ultimately helping them achieve their business goals using the GoodUnited messaging platform.

What will make you a great addition to our team?

• At least 4-6 years of customer facing technical experience – conversational marketing preferred, with a demonstrated record of successfully engaging with enterprise accounts.
• Execution and customer service oriented, able to effectively prioritize and complete customer deliverables on-time and drive outcomes.
• Conversational design experience – specifically within messaging apps like Messenger, WhatsApp, SMS, etc.
• Strong technical chops to be a power-user of our software
• Problem-solving mentality and positive attitude towards the change that comes with working at a rapidly growing company.
• Prior experience working with SaaS solutions in the following domains is preferred: product analytics, digital marketing, A/B testing, business intelligence and/or customer data platforms.
• Experience working with Facebook, Facebook ads manager, Messenger, chat marketing tools, and platforms
• Executive communication and presentation experience
• Ability to travel ~10% of the time

Benefits

• Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision programs.
• 100% of the employee’s premiums are paid by GU, with nominal buy-ups for additional dependents.
• Unlimited (and mandatory) PTO. You have the flexibility to take whatever time you need for whatever reason.
• Birthday PTO. Your birthday is a day to celebrate YOU. GU employees have their birthdays as another PTO day to spend however they’d like.
• Parental Leave Program. We offer paid leave and other benefits to new parents so they can focus on what’s most important.

GoodUnited

At Harry & David we Grow together, Learn together, and Celebrate together!

We are part of the 1800 Flowers Family of Brands and we support our community together—teaming up to aid local charities through contributions of time and fundraising. And we show up for each other—to celebrate each other’s accomplishments both at work and in life.

We offer a competitive salary, a comprehensive benefit package, leadership training and lots of other perks!

Be part of a team committed to the vision to DELIVER SMILES and to inspire more Human Expression, Connection and Celebration!

POSITION SUMMARY

The Demand Planning & Analytics manager is responsible for performing business reporting, planning and analysis related activities for the Food Brands Direct Marketing business. This position leads the effort in providing pertinent and timely analysis of the Company’s Marketing segments financial performance for all food brands with a focus on, Vital Choice, Cheryl’s Cookies, The Popcorn Factory, 1800Baskets and Simply Chocolate.

The Demand Planning & Analytics Manager is an integral partner in helping drive customer insights and leveraging those findings to improve customer loyalty and profitability. In this position, the Demand Planning & Analytic manager will review, analyze, and report on promotional offer strategies, customer nurturing programs, behavioral segments, and customer cohorts. A successful candidate must possess a unique blend of business creativity through analytics and find innovative applications to improve the business. It is critical that this person has a strong background in financial planning, database marketing, measurement and analytics and link insight gathered from complex data to drive specific tactical actions.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Major responsibilities of the position are listed below. To perform the job successfully, an individual must be able to execute each essential duty satisfactorily. Other duties, assignments and specific projects may be assigned at the discretion of management. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Lead budgeting and forecasting of orders, items, demand, gross profit, and advertising expenses.
• Analyze, compare and report results and key performance indicators against plan and other internal benchmarks.
• Make recommended adjustments to forecast based on changes in demand and market trends.
• Manage complex integrated spreadsheets validating for accuracy/integrity.
• Identify exceptions for collaboration and agreement to demand forecast by internal and external stakeholders.
• Partnership with Merchandising/Distribution/Finance/Call Center, supplying key data points that are critical to the rest of the Org.
• Ad-Hoc Analysis as assigned.
• Other job duties as assigned.
• Translates vaguely defined business questions into specific customer insights projects, able to take programs from “concept to completion.”
• Ensures that the customer trends and analytics are linked to marketing programs
• Supports future direct marketing efforts by leveraging customer and brand insights to help design future lifecycle and triggered campaigns
• Develop and maintain strong relations with key business and IT stakeholders
• Lead, coach, develop, and mentor staff
• Evaluate impact of various offer characteristics (discount type, richness, threshold) on future customer behaviors.
• Acquire solid understanding of the Food group business and operational challenges, and proactively look for ways to provide solutions to business issues.
• Recommend new business rules for marketing campaigns based on analysis and knowledge of the customer base, and best available information.
• Develops, improves, and maintains promotions forecasts.
• Other job duties as assigned.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Economics, Marketing or a field with a quantitative focus. MBA Preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in CRM and Analytics with a proven track record of driving CRM strategy and implementing effective multi-channel communications
• Advanced skills in Excel features, queries and statistical tools
• Experience with BI tools, such as Tableau, Business Objects, MicroStrategy required
• Experience performing advanced analytics, segmentations and data mining using SAS
• Strong quantitative, analytical, and reporting skills
• Experience in designing, implementing and analyzing omni-channel campaigns strongly preferred.
• Experience in developing testing strategies, estimating impact, and evaluation of results across channels.
• Strong project/time management and organizational skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Self-motivated and deadline driven.
• Highly analytical mindset with the ability to look at vast amounts of data and synthesize that information into intelligence that can be acted upon by the business.
• Database query proficiency with a working understanding of data models.

Harry & David

Established in 2009, Alibaba Cloud is the digital technology and intellectual backbone of the Alibaba Group. It offers a comprehensive suite of cloud services to customers worldwide, including elastic computing, database, storage, network virtualization services, large-scale computing, security, management and application services, big data analytics, machine learning, and IoT services, creating value for thousands of enterprises, developers, and organizations in more than 200 countries and regions. The Alibaba Cloud International Americas Region team is focused on growing the business across the region by supporting enterprises with their digital transformation and cloud technology needs.

Job Description

1. KA CSM will play the main contact point of key customers, accompany customers, understand enterprise planning, tackle customer pain points from a business perspective, deliver customer success value concepts, and coordinate internal & external resources to support customer success.

2. Responsible for creating success plans for key accounts, with industrial customers biz planning ability, being familiar with industrial solutions and customer business processes, and supporting our customers to achieve digitalization strategy.

3. The role is required to refine your account service plan based on in-depth business insights and the analysis of customer pain points. Highly participate in new projects’ pre-sales stage to achieve renewal and upselling targets.

4. Actively coordinate with Alibaba’s cross-functional team, drive relevant resources to support customers to achieve their business goals, and influence the internal product team to iterative productization with business requirements.

5. Rich project management experience, including but not limited to building customer success organization with clients, building trusted working relationships with internal functions and external partners to drive the project achievements, delivering projects on time with adaptable quality, and creating value for customers, etc.

6. Proactively and optimize project implementations. a quick learner (industry awareness, related products, knowledge, and solutions), business acumen is necessary

Job requirements:

1. For KA customers and major projects, you will be responsible for customer s satisfaction and customer experience indicators during the project delivering stage, and you need to be able to alert and mitigate the risks, which might have an impact on project delivery and customer satisfaction.

2. Excellent customer-facing ability and outstanding communication skills with high-level clients, and normally at least 8 years of related working experience.

3. Align with national managers & industry SAs to maximize KA client value’s continued growth, and be responsible for cloud client renewal rates, new purchases from existing customer products, hybrid cloud upsell, and customer reputation.

4. As a client representative (VOC), work with the internal team to identify and share technical capabilities, impediments, and feedback collected from customers. Using relevant tools to respond to feedback, so that we can improve internal products and solution capabilities

5. Candidates with digital projects manager, chief architecture, or IT consultants background in the industries of Electronic retail, manufacturing, automobile, or finance, are preferred.

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $128,760/year and $210,600/year. However, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Alibaba Cloud

*12-month Contract… likelihood of extension… possibility for conversion fulltime*

Job Description:

Our retail client is looking for a self-starter, with strong project skills in an agile environment. The Product Manager role is an exciting opportunity to help drive customer and business value in a competitive and fast-paced ecommerce environment. This role helps drive product centric ways of working within the jewelry business and provides a conduit between the jewelry business partners and the technology teams. The Product Manager will interact with all levels of the organization, define objectives and key results, and drive key performance indicators.

Preference:

• Retail or Ecommerce background/experience
• Prior experience in product management and project management / Working with Business Users in ecommerce
• W2 engagement

Burtch Works

LHH is partnering with an amazing client in Carrollton, TX and hiring a Digital and Social Media Marketing Manager. This candidate will need 4+ YOE and be open to a full time on site position.

Responsibilities

• Planning digital marketing campaigns, including web, SEO/SEM, email, social media and display advertising.
• Maintaining our social media presence across all digital channels.
• Measuring and reporting on the performance of all digital marketing campaigns.

Qualifications

• Experience with digital and social media campaigns
• Creative mindset
• Ability to multitask and manage multiple projects
• Familiar with Meltwater or a similar platform
• Bachelors Degree in Marketing, Communications, or related field

LHH

Hybrid Eligible – 3 Days Office / 2 Days Work From Home

Build Your Career. Build America’s Future.

Vulcan Materials Company is the nation’s largest producer of construction aggregates and a major producer of aggregates-based construction materials including asphalt and ready-mixed concrete. When you join Vulcan, it’s more than starting an exciting career – you get to make a difference for millions of people every day across the country.

When you join Vulcan, you join a dynamic culture in which career development is encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is valued. No matter the role or the location across the country, every member of the Vulcan team lives through the Vulcan Way: doing the right thing, the right way, at the right time.

What You’ll Do:

We are hiring a new Category Manager at our corporate office in Birmingham, AL! This Category Manager will be responsible for developing and leading Governance initiatives for the Procurement department. As the Category Manager, you will develop, lead and support Supplier Relationship Management and Supplier Performance programs. You will also be responsible for managing, supporting, and coordinating Supplier Diversity systems and programs. This role is onsite in Birmingham, AL and is Hybrid-eligible.

Governance:

• Develop Supplier Code of Conduct, review and update on an annual basis.
• Support development, review, and update Procurement Policy on an annual basis.
• Review, update, and publish Procurement SPI on an annual basis.
• Provide support on strategic sourcing project reviews.
• Develop procurement leadership update materials.
• Prepare 10 – K for submission on an annual basis.

Supplier Diversity:

• Support development of Supplier Diversity program.
• Support Supplier Diversity portal implementation project.

Supplier Relationship Management:

• Lead, develop, and support Supplier Relationship and Supplier Performance program.
• Develop, lead and support Supplier Scorecard process

Additional Responsibilities: Other duties as assigned.

Skills You’ll Need:

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Communications, or similar field of study.

Experience: 3-5 years in Procurement or equivalent experience is preferred.

Interpersonal Skills: Excellent communication skills and the ability to interact well with all levels of the organization. Must be an excellent motivator and team builder. Able to form strong social relationships and be an effective communicator for internal and external audiences. Self-motivated and self-driven.

Technology Skills: Must display knowledge of and ability to use computer applications and the most up to date technology to understand, measure, and capitalize on opportunities. Proficiency in excel, ERP and procurement software preferred. Jaggaer experience is a plus.

Time Management: Ability to meet deadlines, work in team environment, and complete individually assigned tasks.

Problem Solving Skills: High attention to detail, excellent analytical skills, and sound judgement. Ability to identify root cause of problems and apply continuous improvement methodology.

Communication Skills: Must have good written and verbal communication skills to keep team members informed on the status of their request or project.

Organizational Skills: Must have the ability to plan, estimate, and coordinate projects. Must have the ability to set priorities with daily support demands and to achieve quality results.

Presentation Skills: Must have ability to build effective presentations to ensure team members are updated.

Customer Service: Build relationships with procurement stakeholders, strive to exceed all expectations, communicate well and often.

What You’ll Like About Us:

Great Company Culture. Our people share a competitive drive for excellence in an environment of trust, teamwork, open-mindedness, and communication.

Safe. Industry leader in health and safety standards. We are committed to creating a safe work environment and protecting all employees and customers.

Meaningful Work. What sets us apart is the work we do impact daily lives – and every employee contributes. Our aggregates produced are used to build roads, schools, hospitals, airports, and housing throughout the United States.

Health Benefits. Medical, Dental, Vision programs, plus much more.

Rest and Relaxation. Paid vacation, personal floating days, and paid holidays.

Prepare for the Future. 401(k) with company match and contribution.

Training and Development. We see our development programs and helping our employees meet their goals as a key part of our business.

Vulcan Materials Company is committed to employing a diverse workforce. You will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. You also have the right to be free from discrimination for medical needs arising from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.

Vulcan Materials Company

Our client, a leader in tech/retail space, is looking to hire an eCommerce Project Manager, with Amazon experience, on a permanent basis, starting immediately.

Type: Full-Time (Salaried)

Location: Chicago

Schedule: Hybrid (2-3 times a week)

Overview:

As a Project Manager on the Americas Center of Excellence, you will be responsible for the project management and delivery of all advertising projects and assets within the Americas Center of Excellence (CoE). You will work closely with all functions within Marketing, primarily partnering with strategy, category teams (client), creatives and production to ensure we are moving projects toward delivery with the appropriate levels of governance at all phases from brief to delivery to asset management.

Responsibilities:

• Required to understand both agile and waterfall methodologies in order to support both campaign creation and digital production.
• You must be familiar with Kanban along with traditional project management documentation and tools in order to successfully lead any project request or sprint to completion.
• Collaborate with the strategist and the owners of the brief to understand the full picture of the project and the deliverables required – need to have an understanding of the briefing process and the ability to examine and question each request to ensure clarity.
• Define the scope of the project, manage resourcing within the team and highlight needs to increase resourcing when needed.
• Understand the asks and help determine value of projects and prioritization of what is most critical to work on.
• Manage changes in scope and understand the implications of them, communicate to the cross-functional teams, and escalate where necessary.
• Lead status meetings with categories, content teams as well as corporate, includes updating reporting documents.
• Work closely with creative teams to ensure they have a full picture of the projects upon briefing and manage the progress of the creative development.
• Partner with Producer or team specialist to create a detailed scope of work pre-production, and assist throughout production, including: project management of pre- and post-production, management of digital display with our digital production partner, upload all final assets to asset management system , supplier management, and billing.
• Collaboration and communication are a vital part of this role. You must be able to effectively negotiate and prioritize daily requests against clear business criteria in order to maintain a clear project backlog and well organized sprints.
• Be agile and effective in your ways of working. Always looking to optimize brief intake and process, learning from what works and be willing to flex and drive change.
• You will be the key point of contact for Group HQ, the North America Marketing team (US, Canada & Mexico) and external agency partner for transcreation, digital production and asset management partner.
• Roll-out new resourcing and project management tools defined by Group, and work with regional team to ensure adoption and use.

Qualifications:

• 5-10 years of advertising, marketing or creative agency project management experience
• Working within organizations that have an integrated approach to marketing – not a singular channel focus
• Working with partner agencies
• Working with multiple countries/languages a plus
• Organized and action-oriented, able to develop project plans and project manage from kick-off to delivery
• Ability to develop scope of work and manage deliverables/asset lists
• Flexible enough to manage projects in an environment that can be ambiguous and/or rapidly growing and changing
• Able to scope large pieces of work, leading the process of breaking down amorphous problems into deliverable solutions
• Thinks 5-steps ahead – figures out the implications of today’s actions to plan for tomorrow
• Relationship management – comfortable making connections with the cross-functional teams – insights, category, strategy, creative, Group, other COEs
• Roll up your sleeves mentality – willing to challenge yourself to navigate through challenges and solve problems in one minute, and get down into the weeds the next
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Teams and Excel, expert level is a plus!
• Organized and action-oriented, able to develop project plans and project manage from kick-off to delivery
• Ability to develop scope of work and manage deliverables/asset lists
• Flexible enough to manage projects in an environment that can be ambiguous and/or rapidly growing and changing
• Able to scope large pieces of work, leading the process of breaking down amorphous problems into deliverable solutions
• Thinks 5-steps ahead – figures out the implications of today’s actions to plan for tomorrow
• Relationship management – comfortable making connections with the cross-functional teams – insights, category, strategy, creative, Group, other COEs
• Roll up your sleeves mentality – willing to challenge yourself to navigate through challenges and solve problems in one minute, and get down into the weeds the next
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Teams and Excel, expert level is a plus!

24 Seven Talent

About First Street Foundation

If you’re looking to make an impact on climate change, look no further.

Climate-based disasters already cost the US billions in property damage each year and impact the quality of life of many Americans. Without the right policies and investments to mitigate and adapt to climate change these problems will only get worse.

Our mission at First Street Foundation is to make climate risk data accessible, easy to understand and actionable for individuals, governments, and industry.

First Street started seven years ago working with the world’s leading climate scientists to create groundbreaking, climate-adjusted models for Flood, Wildfire, Extreme Heat, and Hurricane Wind. Our models are sensitive down to the local property and building structure.

Our models are used by federal government agencies like Fannie Mae, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the U.S. Departments of Treasury, the Department of Commerce, the Federal Reserve Banks, and others in their assessment of climate risk to the U.S. economy.

While we work with the top federal agencies and banks, we also ensure every American homeowner, home buyer, real estate agent, business, and community has access to these models through Risk Factor (riskfactor.com) and integrations with sites like Redfin and Realtor.com.

As a non-profit, we have a unique ability to always put our mission first. To fund our mission we’ve begun licensing our data to the government, institutions, companies, and individuals with amazing success.

Mid to Sr. Product Manager

We are seeking a talented and motivated Product Manager to join our team as we enhance user engagement and sales for Risk Factor. Risk Factor is a leading platform that provides customers with a comprehensive view of climate-based risks for flood, wildfires, hurricane winds, and extreme heat. Our mission is to scale our impact by making our models and website more accessible, actionable, and valuable to both professionals and consumers.

Role and Responsibilities: As the Product Manager, you will play a crucial role in driving the success of our platform. Reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer, you will collaborate closely with a dedicated design partner and a team of 4-5 engineers.

Your responsibilities will include:

1. Driving sales and customer engagement on Risk Factor, utilizing strategies and tactics to enhance user experience, conversion, and retention.
2. Conducting user research through platforms like usertesting.com and customer calls to gain insights that inform our product investments.
3. Contributing to the development of our product roadmap, ensuring alignment with our business goals and customer needs.
4. Streamlining our product development processes to improve efficiency and time-to-market.
5. Defining and analyzing metrics to assess the success of our products and using data-driven insights to make informed decisions.
6. Cultivating a positive team culture that fosters long-term job satisfaction and growth.

Requirements:

To excel in this role, we expect you to possess the following qualifications:

1. Minimum of 3 years of professional product management experience. 5+ preferred
2. At least 1 year of experience working on consumer-facing products. Bonus points for experience in software for real estate.
3. Strong sense of curiosity and ownership for everything you ship, demonstrating a passion for delivering exceptional products.
4. Solid product instincts with a deep understanding of user experience design and the ability to incorporate user empathy into product development.
5. Strong analytical skills, including experience in setting, monitoring, and improving key product metrics.
6. Excellent oral and written communication skills, allowing you to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
7. Ability to work for our Seattle office three days a week

Location and Work Environment:

This position is based in Seattle, and we are seeking candidates who can work from our workspace on Capitol Hill three days a week. You will have the opportunity to work closely with our Chief Product Officer, who brings over 15 years of product management experience at Redfin and Microsoft and has mentored numerous product managers throughout their careers.

Join our team and be part of an exciting journey as we revolutionize the way people understand and manage climate-based risks.

First Street Foundation

Job Description:
Seeking an individual with experience or educational background in functions including but not limited to product development, vendor development / management, contract negotiations and pricing strategies. The individual must be adept at performing various data intensive analysis and determining strategic action based on multiple data points and business factors. This position requires an individual that works well independently and must also liaise with both the leadership and sales teams of the business and be able to clearly articulate and promote the product lines assigned. The individual must be a self-starter and be able to juggle multiple commitments simultaneously. The position is responsible for the profitability of defined product lines by developing and managing vendor relationships to obtain the best total cost solutions and understanding the market to optimize pricing to the customer.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, build and manage assigned categories to maintain and grow sales
• Analyze, monitor and take action to improve product costs and maintain the lowest total cost
• Analyze pricing data from industry standards, previous sales trends and competitors
• Manage market pricing and total net/net pricing structures by channel and by customer
• Proactively work with other Operations, Sales and Customer Service team to maintain required service commitments to customer base
• Develop and manage vendor relationships in defined product / program categories
• Perform ad hoc analysis on an as needed basis

Requirements & Qualifications:

• Strong analytical ability with proficiency in all Microsoft Office programs including Excel
• Effective communication skills with the ability to identify and illustrate empirical data segments into actionable information to key business owners
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment
• Highly self-motivated with strong work ethic
• Desire to grow professionally through taking on additional challenges and opportunities

• BS in Marketing, Business, Supply Chain Management, or similar relevant field preferred
• Previous work experience in sourcing with a progressive history of achievement a plus

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