Rebate Manager Senior

Key responsibilities

·       Understand each vendor
programme: volume and growth rebates, tiered targets, back-end margins, special
bid and deal registration pricing, price protection, stock rotation, MDF and
early-payment discounts

·       Validate every rebate – whether
it is correct, what is due and what needs to be done to earn or recover it

·       Maintain the group rebate
tracker by vendor, country and period: earned vs. claimed vs. received

·       Track purchases and
sell-through against tier thresholds; give early warning to Purchase and Sales
when TFG is close to a higher payout

·       Prepare and submit claims on
vendor portals within claim windows; follow up credit notes until received

·       Manage partner (customer)
rebate schemes: calculation, approval and payout

·       Hand approved rebate workings
to Accounts & Finance for booking; support month-end rebate accruals and
reconciliations

·       Report monthly on rebate
earnings, open claims, ageing, leakage from missed or rejected claims, and
margin impact by vendor

·       Compile claims with the
required sell-out reports, invoices and serial numbers

·       Track ageing of open claims and
credit notes; escalate items nearing expiry and flag write-off risk to Finance

·       Consolidate rebate tracking by
vendor across countries, so regional and global programme targets are tracked
as a whole and each country gets its share

·       Support vendor business reviews
and negotiations with data on volumes, claim recovery and margin impact

·       Work with Order Management on
correct period-end cut-off so purchases and sales count toward vendor targets

·       Keep rebate documentation
audit-ready and drive automation of tracking, claims and reporting

·       Single point of contact for all
rebate queries across the group

Requirements

Requirements

·       Graduate in Commerce / Finance;
CA Inter, CMA or MBA an advantage

·       7–10 years in IT distribution
(e.g. Redington, Ingram Micro, or similar), with at least 3 years handling
vendor rebate and incentive programmes

·       Sound business knowledge of
distribution: how vendor programmes, special pricing, channel margins and
partner incentives work

·       Hands-on with multiple OEM
partner portals and claim processes

·       Strong Excel; ERP experience
(SAP Business One or similar); multi-country and multi-currency exposure

·       Advanced Excel (pivot tables,
lookups, reconciliations); Power BI or similar preferred

·       Understanding of IT
distribution margins, multi-currency transactions, VAT/GST and rebate
accounting

·       Confident communicator and
negotiator with vendors, sales and senior management, across time zones

Working conditions

Based in India,
with working hours flexed to overlap with country teams across time zones, and
extended hours around month-end, quarter-end and vendor claim deadlines.