Role Overview
The Manager, Sales Strategy & Planning owns the customer planning story, performance enablement, and cross-functional alignment for assigned customers or channel. This role serves as a strategic business partner to Sales, helping to identify and activate SBA opportunities into customer-specific actions, recommendations and decision-ready planning deliverables.
What You Will Do
The position is responsible for enabling high-quality customer plans, capturing customer forecast assumptions, enabling consensus discussions, business reviews, and growth recommendations through strong process leadership and cross-functional influence.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The ideal candidate will have strong commercial acumen, analytical capability, communication skills, and stakeholder management skills, with experience in Commercial Planning, Sales Planning, Category Management, Customer Strategy, Revenue Growth Management, Finance, Marketing, or related business functions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- 5 years of experience in Commercial Planning, Sales Planning, Category Management, Customer Strategy, Revenue Growth Management, Finance, Marketing, or related business functions
- Experience in the Convenience Channel both direct and utilizing distributors
- Experience leading cross-functional business initiatives and customer planning activities
- Experience supporting business performance management, planning processes, and decision support
- Strong commercial acumen, analytical capability, communication skills, and stakeholder management skills
Benefits
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health insurance
- 401(k) or similar retirement plan
- Paid time off
- Wellness programs
- Employee discounts
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
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