Trade Specialist

Trade SpecialistThe Trade Specialist serves as a critical liaison between the centralized trade organization, client-facing sales teams, and internal shared services. This role provides analytical, systems, and reconciliation expertise to support trade investment accuracy and effectiveness across Grocery, Natural, and Small Format channels. The Trade Specialist independently manages complex client systems, drives exception resolution, and ensures alignment between contractual agreements, customer execution, and financial settlement processes.As a Trade Specialist, you'll play a key role in ensuring seamless client operations and driving business success. Your day-to-day will involve managing strategic client systems to maintain accuracy and efficiency across processes, analyzing and comparing client contracts for dates, rates, and product details to ensure compliance and precision, auditing client events to validate deduction application accuracy and uphold financial integrity, driving timely reconciliation processes between client requests, deduction balances, and customer timelines, owning key performance indicators (KPIs) for open deduction balances and delivering insightful reporting on client KPIs and outstanding balances, providing problem-solving support for Global Business Services, including customer backup documentation and SOP updates, and facilitating collaboration through regular cadences with cross-functional teams to align on goals and resolve challenges.We're looking for a detail-driven professional who thrives in a fast-paced, analytical environment. To succeed in this role, you should bring high school diploma or GED required, strong proficiency in Microsoft Office and computer applications, ability to work with data, analyze trends, and generate actionable insights, highly analytical with exceptional problem-solving skills, strong business judgment and confidence in decision-making, ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results under tight timelines, sit for extended periods (typically 6+ hours per day), use a computer, including keyboard and mouse, for prolonged periods, lift and carry light items (e.g., files, office supplies, laptops, typically 20+ pounds), reach, bend, or stoop occasionally to access files or office materials, maintain focus and attention for long periods of desk-based work, follow clear directions, and perform repetitive motions (e.g., typing, clicking) consistently throughout the day.