Sr Manager, Sales Planning Walmart & Club

Business Unit Overview

Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company's portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats™, PEBBLES™, Grape-Nuts™ and Malt-O-Meal™ cereal and Peter Pan™ peanut butter, as well as Rachael Ray® Nutrish™, Kibbles 'n Bits™ and 9

Lives™ dog and cat food. Post also provides private label solutions to customers in pet food, cereal, nut butters and granola. 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. For more information about our brands, visit  or follow us on Linked In or Facebook for the latest news.

Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minnesota, 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.

PCB is seeking a Sr Manager, Sales Planning Walmart & Club to join our Commercial Strategy and Execution (CS&E) team to support our Ready-to-Eat Cereal business and Customer Development Organization. The Sr Manager, Sales Planning acts as a sales strategist to the Walmart & Club Sales VPs and provides the entire customer selling teams with analytics, trade planning, and trade systems support to advance PCBs strategies.

The successful candidate will actively participate in the creation of promotional programs / strategies and co-ordinate with headquarters teams and field sales groups to ensure successful execution.

Working

Location:

Hybrid

This role is located at the Lakeville, MN Corporate office or Bentonville, AR office

Typical hybrid schedule includes 3 days in-office with remote flexibility up to 2 days a week. #LI-hybrid

• Work closely with cross-functional teams to devise strategies that meet PCB and customer sales targets. Participate in the development and implementation of integrated, joint business plans with Walmart & Club selling teams to achieve strategic objectives and effectively communicate brand initiatives.
  • Enable successful execution of innovation, customer resets, and promotional events by communicating sales requirements, timing, and quantities to cross-functional teams.
  • Monitors performance with agreed upon action plans (e.g., KPI tracking) and promotes an open feedback loop to identify opportunities to close any gaps.
• Consolidate and share insights regarding sales, promotion effectiveness, and merchandising results across internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate with the commercial team to create tools and capabilities that streamline the pre-planning process and validate inputs for customer plans. Work with the sales team to develop and refine sales plans. Offer insights into key drivers, risks, and opportunities, and represent the sales perspective on gap-closing initiatives.
• Serve as a liaison between sales, demand planning, and supply teams to monitor inventory levels and resolve product availability issues. Collaborate with supply and demand teams to address availability concerns, communicate updates to the sales team, and establish prioritization as needed.
• You have an entrepreneurial spirit. You are comfortable with ambiguity and are energized by the process of building and embedding projects within the CS&E organization to drive consistency in planning processes across sales, finance, and…