Business Advisor-CPG

The Vistex Business Advisor is expected to leverage their business and industry experiences to solve client problems and drive efficiencies and reduce complexity. Individuals will collaborate with clients to understand their Go-To-Market (GTM) model, current challenges, and longer-term strategies.  The business advisor will make recommendations on transformation changes, standardization, governance, operating efficiencies to support technology solutions.

The ideal candidate would have a broad range of business experiences, possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and be able to incorporate business knowledge with enabling technologies to provide solutions to the clients.  

Every year, Vistex continues to grow!  To ensure our organizations’ ability to proactively respond to its’ needs, we have created ongoing positions. Although we may not have an opening today, the Talent Acquisition team continues to have conversations with candidates who could potentially join our organization within 3, 6 or 9 months, depending on customer needs. As you look at your next career move—think about a great working atmosphere, collaborative teammates, a SAP recognized and awarded Partner, and personal and professional success come together.  Vistex | Now It All Adds Up™

Responsibilities:

• Assist clients in developing business case benefits and use value engineering tools to establish KPI’s to track and measure success of the intended business change.
• Leverage industry experiences to guide client with new and alternative ways to address client problems by challenging the status quo – operationally and strategically.
• Lead business assessments to evaluate a clients’ long-term strategies, business practices, pain points, and deliver recommendations on standardization, governance, operational efficiencies, and technology solutions.
• During implementation engagements, lead business discussions, document client business processes, support and influence the design of future business processes.
• Provide business consulting services to establish future business framework ahead of or in conjunction with a new technology platform implementation.
• Bring business context to licensing and service sales efforts to solve customer issue.
• Capability to translate complex business processes into a usable and highly adoptable solution by leveraging knowledge of the Software Offering.
• Recommend industry leading practices for Vistex solution.

The compensation for this position is $140k to $160k annually.  Base pay will vary depending on factors, including but not limited to, a candidate’s location, job-related knowledge, skills and work experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus.  Vistex provides highly competitive benefits including comprehensive healthcare plan, 401(k) and paid time off, including paid volunteerism days!

About us: The Vistex platform helps businesses finally get control of all their different promotions, rebates, SPAs, discounts, and other incentives. With so many programs across so many partner relationships, it can be impossible to see where all the money is going, let alone how much difference it’s actually making to revenue. With Vistex, business leaders can see the numbers, see what really works, and see what to do next – so they can make sure every dollar they spend really is driving more growth, not just more costs. It’s why global enterprises ranging from Coca-Cola to Sony to Grainger rely on Vistex every day. Vistex | Now it all adds up.™

Qualifications Education Required Bachelors or better. Experience Required Go-To-Market (GTM) experience in any of the following industries: Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG), Life Sciences, Hi-Tech, Wholesale Distribution, Manufacturing or Food Service. GTM operations experience in areas such as contract management, pricing, trade program, (e.g. channel tracking, MDF, sales rebates), vendor programs (e.g. chargebacks or purchase rebates), distributor or retail programs, or revenue management. Ideal candidates come from one of the following areas: (1) commercial operations, (2) field sales, (3) sales operations, (4) customer support, (5) finance, or (6) transformation. Solid understanding of the business process and requirements of assigned industry. Demonstrated ability to understand and influence end-to-end business solutions. Be able to bridge gaps in business process vs. technology and develop alternatives. Advanced analytical skills and proficiency in software Self-starter with keen problem-solving skills and ability to improve efficiencies. Pursue professional and personal development to ensure adequate knowledge of the markets and industries Vistex serves. Excellent interpersonal skills with unique ability to liaison between business and technical teams and solution capabilities Preferred Various Team or Departmental Leadership Experience Experience with Vistex and consulting a plus Broad range and variety of GTM experiences within a company or across companies with demonstrated growth in responsibilities in a plus Equal Opportunity Employer
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