Your Opportunity as the Sales Coordinator-East Pet Sales Team
In this role you will be the key support within the sales organization for the East Pet Sales Team. You will collaborate and work cross functionally with teams across the commercial organization by providing support with daily, weekly and monthly ad-hoc reporting, internal and external systems/data maintenance, assist in customer meeting prep and analyzing key opportunities to help deliver sales targets.
Location: Working Remotely within the United States
In this role you will:
Business Planning & Analyses
- Own custom reporting needs, developing, updating and interpreting data to provide insights to sales team and support ad hoc business needs
- Create and maintain merchandising planners for commercial organization
- Assist managers with administrative needs of business: customer contracts, new item set up, cost changes, internal/external audit resolution, deduction and reclaim management, etc.
- Support promotional planning and maintenance in the Trade Planning System
- Partner with sales team to develop new item presentations, evaluate business trends, and create presentations supporting sales priorities and initiatives
- Supports sales needs for annual business and joint planning processes
Strengthen Customer Planning & Forecasting
- Develop strong understanding of customer business strategies, systems and resources to support sales team with focus on continual improvement
- Manage customer system reporting to support team needs and analysis with recommendations to improve; collaborate with Analytics organization
- Support ad-hoc requests for customer system data as needed
- Understand customer KPI’s, and collaborate with cross functional and sales teams to deliver against retailer expectations
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to communicate and ensure flawless execution of pricing, promotion, & merchandising plans
Accelerate Team Performance
- Own & maintain SharePoint site and calendars for team, support record keeping expectations
- Lead coordination for sales team business reviews
- Support invoicing/payment processing for the team as needed
- Assist in the preparations of market visits & key internal and customer meetings
- Support ongoing special project work, product samples, office supply needs, etc
What we are looking for:
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree
- 2 years of business experience (fulltime and/or internship experience)
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Demonstrated PowerPoint experience putting data and graphs into presentation ready formats
- Strong desire to learn & succeed
- Self-motivated, organized and has ability to manage and prioritize multiple/diverse priorities
- Excellent oral & written communication skills
Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:
- Consumer Packaged Goods industry experience
- Advanced Excel skillset
- Co-Pilot (AI) business integration and usage experience
- Desire to grow and develop in a future Sales and/or Commercialization role
The Right Place for You
We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.
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We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- At least 2 years of business experience, including full-time and/or internship experience
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Demonstrated PowerPoint experience presenting data and graphs in presentation-ready formats
- Strong desire to learn and succeed
- Self-motivated, organized, and able to manage and prioritize multiple diverse priorities
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Consumer Packaged Goods industry experience
- Advanced Excel skills
- Microsoft Copilot business integration and usage experience
- Desire to grow into a future Sales or Commercialization role
The J.M. Smucker Co. Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about The J.M. Smucker Co. and has not been reviewed or approved by The J.M. Smucker Co..
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are described as strong, with a company 401(k) match, immediate vesting in some materials, and access to an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. These elements contribute to a favorable view of total compensation value.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave for all parents and on-site childcare at key locations signal a family-forward approach. Additional supports such as adoption assistance and pet-related leave reinforce this emphasis.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, seasonal compressed schedules, and flexibility options are highlighted across materials. The ability to start with substantial PTO and buy additional time enhances perceived time-off breadth.
The J.M. Smucker Co. Insights
What We Do
Each generation of consumers leaves their mark on culture by establishing new expectations for food and the companies that make it. At The J.M. Smucker Co., it is our privilege to be at the heart of this dynamic with a portfolio that appeals to each generation of people and pets with products found in 90 percent of U.S. homes and countless restaurants. This includes a mix of iconic brands consumers have always loved such as Folgers®, Jif® and Milk-Bone® and new favorites like Café Bustelo®, Smucker’s® Uncrustables® and Rachael Ray® Nutrish®. By continuing to immerse ourselves in consumer and pet parent preferences for food, how it’s purchased and how the companies that make it should operate, we will maintain the important role we play in their lives. This will allow us to continue growing our business and the positive impact we have on all of those who count on us.
