Your Opportunity as the Sales Coordinator – Walmart, Sweet Baked Snacks
Be the key support within the sales organization for Walmart Sweet Baked Snacks Sales Team. You will collaborate and work cross functionally with teams across the commercial organization by providing support planning and execution of activities, and ad-hoc reporting while also analyzing key opportunities to help deliver sales targets.
Location: Bentonville, Arkansas at JM Smucker Sales Office
Work Arrangements: Hybrid – on-site a minimum of 9 days a month primarily during core weeks as determined by the Company; maybe more as business need requires
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.
- Support teams development, integration and leveraging of AI tools within company framework
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.
What we are looking for:
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Strong desire to learn & succeed
- Self-motivated, organized and has ability to manage and prioritize multiple/diverse priorities
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills
Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:
- Consumer Packaged Goods industry experience and/or experience with Walmart specific systems (Retail Link, Scintilla, Madrid) and syndicated sources (Circana, Nielsen etc.)
- Advanced Excel skillset
- Demonstrated PowerPoint experience putting data and graphs into presentation ready formats
- General understanding and ability to leverage AI tools to improve productivity
Learn more about working at Smucker:
Helping our Employees Thrive
Delivering on Our Purpose
Our Continued Commitment to Ensuring a Workplace for All
Follow us on LinkedIn®
#LI-MR1
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..
-
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.
-
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.
-
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
Similar Jobs
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.
