Trade Strategy & Customer Planning Analyst - Maple, Ontario

Do you have a passion for driving commercial performance through insight, strategy, and flawless execution? This is your chance! Join the Arla Commercial Excellence team as our Trade Strategy & Customer Planning Analyst. This exciting role is a great opportunity to be part of a dynamic, world‑class Consumer Packaged Goods and Dairy Manufacturing company.

As our Trade Strategy & Customer Planning Analyst, you will play a critical role in optimizing trade spend, enhancing customer planning, and delivering data‑driven insights that support strategic decision‑making. You will bring analytical rigor, storytelling excellence, and a deep understanding of trade, pricing, and promotional performance to help drive profitable growth across the organization. Working closely with Sales, Marketing, Finance and our insights teams, you will influence strategy and empower our Customer Business Teams (CBTs) to execute with excellence.

About the role

Reporting to the Manager, Commercial Excellence, you will:

• Act as a specialized user within the Trade Spend & Promotional Planning system—owning updates, data integrity, workflows, and outputs (incl. reporting) across the sales organization, while supporting the future state of Trade Spend & Promotional Planning system tools and processes


• Assess promotional trade spend efficiency and effectiveness; quantify promo ROI and recommend optimizations by customer, channel, and pack


• Maintain standardized promo post event assessments and scorecards to drive continuous improvement across customer business teams


• Contribute to the sales customer planning process, including consolidation of key drivers (pricing, promo, distribution, assortment, mix) for management review


• Consolidate and coordinate volume assumptions as part of the innovation process (sell in, sell through, cannibalization, trial/repeat)


• Collaborate with the Commercial Financial Analyst relative to Net Revenue Management analysis across price, promo, pack/size, mix, and trade terms levers and support tracking progress against initiatives and targets


• Update business case builds for pricing, promo, trade terms, and innovation, modelling Net Revenue, Profit and Return on Investment


• Lead business contingency planning and management; work with the Sales and Marketing teams to identify drivers to support volume and profit growth opportunities and summarize contingency options


• Provide concise, executive ready reporting and recommendations to leadership for rapid decision making and plan course correction


• Standardize reporting templates and definitions to drive consistency across CBTs; steward data accuracy and timeliness


• Build collaborative relationships across Sales, Marketing, Finance, and PPL (as defined internally) to deliver transformation and commercial outcomes


• Aid in translating complex analytics into clear narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences; facilitate alignment and decisions across stakeholders

Who are you?

You are a commercially minded analyst with a passion for turning data into clear, compelling insights that influence business decisions. With at least three years of experience in commercial analytics, trade spend, Net Revenue Management (NRM) or category roles—ideally within CPG—you bring strong financial acumen, advanced Excel skills, and confidence working with tools such as SAP, Power BI/Tableau, and syndicated data sources like NielsenIQ or Circana. You thrive in a fast‑paced environment, demonstrate exceptional attention to detail, and communicate complex information in a concise, executive‑ready manner. Collaborative by nature, you build strong relationships across teams, bring a positive “can‑do” mindset, and take ownership of your continuous learning and development.

B.S. or B.A. degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

What do we offer?

The compensation range for this role is $82,000-$90,000, and this posting is for a current vacancy.

In pursuing this exciting opportunity, the selected individuals will be awarded with a competitive compensation package.

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create the future of dairy. We push each other to keep our cooperative at the forefront of the dairy industry, so we can create Good Growth and bring health and inspiration to the world, naturally.

We do so much more than make some of the world’s favorite dairy products. We give babies the best start in life, make the family dinner unforgettable and mornings worth getting up for.  Every single one of us plays an important role and together we build and help establish our position as one of the largest dairy companies in the world.

Application and contact

Interested and qualified candidates are invited to submit their resume.  Arla foods is committed to providing equal opportunities for all applicants and employees regardless of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic or national origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, record of offences (for which a pardon has been granted), disability, marital or family status, or any other characteristic protected by law.   If you require an accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process, please contact us at the email address above to provide your contact information. While we appreciate all resume submissions, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

While we appreciate all applications, only applicants that are legally authorized to work in Canada will be considered for this role.

Shape the Future of Dairy 

Arla is a global leader in the dairy industry, committed to enabling good food choices that make life better, providing people with natural, sustainable nourishment, while taking care at every step to ensure Arla is a choice they can feel good about. If you are looking to shape the future with an ambitious global cooperative that truly cares about your growth, where everyone feels valued and empowered, and collaboration is the core of culture, Arla is a choice you can feel good about. 

 
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