Commercial Programs Manager

Covia responsibly provides minerals solutions for a better tomorrow. As a leading provider of diversified minerals, our products support a variety of industrial markets, including glass, ceramics, coatings, metals, foundry, polymers, construction, water filtration, and sports and recreation. Long-standing relationships with a broad customer base enable Covia's market-inspired approach to innovation to enhance solutions and customer benefits. Underpinning these strengths is an unwavering commitment to safety and to sustainable development, further enhancing the value that Covia delivers to all its stakeholders.

Covia is looking for a dynamic Commercial Program Manager who will have a positive impact on the Commercial/Pricing team. As a Commercial Program Manager, you will be responsible for multiple concurrent projects with a heavy focus on data analytics and market research that will ultimately support commercial/pricing decisions and the Marketing and Sales teams.

The successful candidate will have the following Key Accountabilities:

• Manage and own the pricing program for all contracted customers.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to drive pricing goals
• Develop a deep understanding and model of customer economics, competitor capabilities and industry pricing
• Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, commercial sales, finance, technology, and analytics teams
• Identify opportunities for improvement or automation in existing strategies or processes and drive development with technical and business partners
• Craft compelling recommendation docs, launch announcements, and senior leadership updates
• Prioritize roadmaps and make trade off decisions in fast-paced changing business environment
• Build and own mechanisms for business reporting, auditing, and reviews
• Owning change management processes and communications for effective rollout and updates
• Responsible for the contract execution process.
• Other job duties as assigned

The successful candidate will have the following Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, or related field is preferred
• Candidates will have 5-7 years in a program or commercial project management role
• Ability to conceptualize solutions based on commercial needs and processes

• Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
• Proficiency in interpreting complex data sets and presenting findings.
• Proficient in project, time, and change management.

• Strong analytical abilities with knowledge of how to interpret and analyze complex data, troubleshoot issues, and present information supporting conclusions for internal stake holders
• Project, time, and management skills
• Excellent document organization is a must; this position will be involved in many different projects over both short and long periods of time and will reference past documentation frequently
• Experience with CRM, ERP, and/or CLM systems
• Advanced Excel knowledge. Knowledge of functional arrays and multi-conditional matching is a plus
• Development and delivery of presentations
• Willingness for regional travel
• Strong interpersonal skills - effectively engages and collaborates across levels and functions in concise, understandable business language
• Training experience with a service mentality
• Good verbal and written communications skills that can adjust to the appropriate audience up to the executive level

Commitment to Our Culture

Our core values - Safety, Team, Customers, Growth, and Courage-guide our work every day and will help us achieve our vision: Covia is the leading minerals solutions provider, and through the passion and commitment of our people, we enable customer success-ensuring a sustainable future for our company.

All Covia Team Members are expected to:

• Live the Life-Saving Rules
• Build high-performing work teams
• Focus on customers
• Demonstrate a growth mindset
• Do the right thing, always

Benefits

• Excellent Healthcare Benefits - medical, vision, dental
• 401K with company matching
• Paid Time Off + Paid Holidays
• Disability plans and Life / AD&D
• Employee Assistance Program

At Covia, we strive for and support a diverse workforce as we firmly believe this lays the foundation of our success. Our compelling culture supports inclusion, individuality and respect within the workplace. We are committed to providing employment opportunities to the most qualified candidate based on work-related factors and without regard to non-work-related factors including race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, or veteran status.

The organization offers competitive salaries, advancement opportunities, and a full range of benefits.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

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