Job description
Business Unit Overview:
The company’s portfolio ranges from iconic brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, Grape-Nuts® and PEBBLES™ cereals, as well as Peter Pan® peanut butter to the top-selling Malt-O-Meal® brand of value ready-to-eat cereals and more. Our business is growing and that’s where you come in. Our company is a hearty mix of ambitious people who want to make great things happen. Location Description:
Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings Inc., is focused on providing delicious food choices for every taste and budget. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all.
Brand:
It’s an exciting time in pet food! Post Holdings, Inc. recently announced an agreement to buy several pet food brands from The J.M. Smucker Co. The transaction is anticipated to close early in the second calendar quarter of 2023. Upon closing of the acquisition, Post expects to create a new pet food platform within Post Consumer Brands. This role is part of the team of 1,000 employees who will soon join the Post family to focus on and grow these iconic pet brands.
The company’s portfolio ranges from iconic brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, Grape-Nuts® and PEBBLES™ cereals, as well as Peter Pan® peanut butter to the top-selling Malt-O-Meal® brand of value ready-to-eat cereals and more. Our business is growing and that’s where you come in. Our company is a hearty mix of ambitious people who want to make great things happen.
Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minn. is about 20 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Lakeville has all the benefits of smaller town living with access to everything a large metropolitan area has to offer. Join more than 400 team members collaborating on the two-building campus to help put breakfast on the tables of millions of consumers in North America.
Responsibilities:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
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.
SELECTION CRITERIA
Education
- Bachelors degree required
Experience
- 2 years of CPG experience required, pet industry experience a plus
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Advanced Excel skillset including work with large data sets
- PowerPoint experience putting data and graphs into presentation ready formats
- Comfortable learning and navigating diverse Customer portals
Other
- Strong desire to learn & succeed
- Self-motivated, organized and has ability to manage and prioritize multiple/diverse priorities
- Excellent oral & written communication skills with an attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to work crossfunctionally
- Willingness to travel 20% (account calls/corporate meetings
Location
- 100% remote within the US
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