Director of Sales, Walmart & Sam's Club - NORTHWEST

Reporting to the Sr. Director - Alternate Channel Sales, the Director, Walmart and Sam's Club Sales will support the delivery of budgeted annual top and bottom-line revenue and profit objectives on all US product lines of business across both our branded and private label portfolios at our largest retail customer. This highly strategic and analytical individual establishes strategies and tactics to effectively lead the delivery of short, mid and long-term strategic commercial growth plans at Walmart and Sam's Club, influencing the national retail strategy.

• Leads our annual customer planning process for Walmart and Sam's Club to deliver budgeted sales revenue, volume and margin targets through identifying strategies and tactics which deliver growth across current and future product categories.
• Own and lead the 3-year customer strategic planning processes for Walmart and Sam's Club, including joint business planning, growth targets and innovation development.
• Develop and manage senior-level relationships with Walmart and Sam's Club merchants, category leaders, product development managers, cross‑functional partners
• Guide and manage broker partners to execute strategies flawlessly, providing clear direction and accountability to regular performance metrics and results, including any targeted actions.
• Leverage analytics (Retail Link, Circana, etc.) to guide forecasting, strategy, and influence customer distribution, shelving and merchandising execution.
• Develop eCommerce as a growth accelerator to augment in‑store sales, meeting consumers where they want to shop. Strategic leader of Walmart and Sam's Club digital business.
• Management of customer P&L, with strong understanding of key metrics and business knowledge to receive and provide directions on opportunities to improve profitability.
• Effectively manages all sales spending (e.g., Trade, T&E, SG&A, etc.) while looking for avenues to reduce or eliminate waste.
• Plays active role in collaborating with At Home Sales and Category Managers to develop winning strategies, tactics and plans across CHG retail product lines using all available syndicated data (Circana/IRI), Retail Link data and Consumer and Customer insights.
• Works closely with VP Sales, Sr. Director Sales, and Category Managers to provide any necessary input into CHG programs, plans, execution, etc.
• Works in partnership with Category and R&D team members to help cultivate future PL and branded innovation opportunities to enable successful launch at Walmart and Sam's Club.
• Ensures internal CHG team (Sales leadership, Marketing, Operations, etc.) members all have necessary information to support and progress customer businesses.
• Identifies specific opportunities to enhance Walmart and Sam's Club sales and profit through new product development, increased product distribution, expansion into new categories, etc.
• Conducts regular review of POS (Retail Link / Madrid, Circana, etc.) and customer data, actively engages in thorough analysis of information to enhance future sales opportunity or business performance.
• Provides input to monthly forecast and performance updates to the company, representing the trends, performance, and needs of Walmart and Sam's Club.
• Provides ongoing recommendations on how to continuously improve existing commercial processes, implement cost‑savings initiatives, conserve cash and enhance return on investment.
• Collaborates cross‑functionally with R&D, Finance, Procurement, Operations, Supply Chain, Transportation, Ops, Marketing and Sales to effectively manage or support processes around demand planning, price increases, SKU rationalization, etc.
• Communicates to the organization in a timely manner regarding any changes in business and market trends which impact our Walmart and Sam's Club business, provides recommended actions to address these developments to protect or enhance company business.
• Assures all necessary protocols and processes are closely adhered in order to eliminate any operational, reputational, financial or safety risks to CHG.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

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