Sales Planning Analyst

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Parsippany, NJ
Junior
Food
The Role
The Sales Planning Analyst is responsible for analyzing trade spending effectiveness and efficiency within the brand portfolio. They collaborate with the Revenue Growth Management Team and Sales Team Analysts, ensuring promotion plans align with brand strategies and budgets. Duties include conducting post-promotion analysis, providing insights, supporting new item execution and sales forecasting, and performing ad-hoc analyses as needed.
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Reporting directly to the Sales Planning Manager, this position is primarily responsible for identifying trade spending effectiveness and efficiency opportunities across the Business Unit’s brand portfolio. The role may also support the Sales Planning Manager for other activities. The Sales Planning Analyst works collaboratively with the Revenue Growth Management Team and Sales Team Analysts to ensure customer promotion plans align with the brand trade strategy, pricing/promotional guardrails and brand spending is within approved budgets. The Sales Planning Analyst utilizes AFS, T-Pro, Nielsen and Numerator to routinely conduct post promotion analysis and provide actionable insights and recommendations to the Sales Planning Manager. The Sales Planning Analyst may support the Sales Planning Manager for other activities such sales forecasting, new item execution, slotting fund management and ad hoc tracking and reporting.

Responsibilities:

  • Utilize all available data and tools daily to effectively fulfill job duties. Examples include AFS, T-Pro, Nielsen and Numerator.

  • Work with Revenue Growth Management and the Sales Teams to execute on key efficiency and profitability improvement initiatives.

  • Constantly strive to identify and synthesize insights and translate into actionable recommendations for channel, customer and brand.

  • Monitor trade spending versus budget by customer for all brands within the BU portfolio.

  • Support Sales Planning Manager for new item execution tracking and reporting including slotting.

  • Support Sales Planning Manager in the consensus forecasting. process to include providing AFS data inputs and attending select meetings.

  • Perform ad-hoc analyses and data pulls that may be requested by the Sales Planning Manager.

Experience, Skills, Education:

  • Bachelor's Degree required
  • 1-2 years relevant sales planning experience required
  • Trade Planning Management system experience required
  • Nielsen/IRI experience preferred
  • Microsoft Office expertise required
  • Analytical skills necessary to draw conclusions and make recommendations based on data
  • Excellent time management, organizational and communication skills required
  • Ability to multi-task projects and continually prioritize workload as internal demands require while ensuring deadlines are met
  • Good financial understanding (trade management gross to net) and return on investment (ROI)
  • Strong analytic ability to parse data using Excel. i.e. Pivot Tables, datalookup formulas
  • Persistence and attention to detail important
  • Familiarity with multiple data sources, ie. AFS, syndicated sales data and financial data
  • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel and PowerPoint) and systems aptitude

Equal Employment Opportunity:

B&G Foods is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you’d like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please see www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf.

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The Company
HQ: Parsippany, New Jersey
1,388 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1889

What We Do

At B&G Foods, we pride ourselves in delivering best in class brands and believe that recruiting people of the highest caliber is essential to our sustained growth and long-term success. If you are looking to join a best in class organization, then this opportunity is for you. Get to know our family…join our family.

To view our open positions, visit us @ http://www.bgfoods.com/careers/careers.asp

Based in Parsippany, New Jersey, B&G Foods, Inc. (NYSE: BGS) and its subsidiaries manufacture, sell and distribute high-quality, branded shelf-stable and frozen foods across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. With our diverse portfolio of more than 50 brands you know and love, including B&G, B&M, Cream of Wheat, Green Giant, Las Palmas, Le Sueur, Maple Grove Farms, Dash, Crisco, Clabber Girl, Ortega, Polaner, Spice Islands and Victoria, there’s a little something for everyone. For more information about B&G Foods and our brands, please visit www.bgfoods.com.

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