Sales Analyst, Walmart

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  and follow us on Linked In or Facebook for the latest news.

The Post Consumer Brands sales office in Bentonville is in the heart of the Natural State, Arkansas. Bentonville is also home to the Walmart home office, which this sales team primarily serves. In addition to managing the relationship with Post's largest customer, the small, dedicated team also participates in several charitable and volunteer events throughout the year. The team prides itself on winning together and working hard to meet goals, while celebrating wins.

As a Sales Analyst supporting the Walmart business, you will turn sales, category, e-commerce and promotion data into clear insights that help teams make faster, better decisions. You will support the Walmart Pet Food business across channels, with added focus on a digital-first, omnichannel approach.

This is a growth-focused opportunity for an analyst with initial CPG experience who is ready to broaden their impact. You will partner across Sales, Category Management, Supply Chain, E-commerce, Sales Planning and Brand Marketing while building deep knowledge of Walmart reporting, trade promotion and financial planning. Your work will strengthen scorecards, event tracking and business reviews, and help create repeatable processes that support the full business.

• Analyze Walmart sales, category, e-commerce, forecast and financial performance to identify trends, risks and growth opportunities across channels.
• Develop and maintain daily, weekly and monthly reports and omnichannel scorecards that clearly communicate the health of the business.
• Build and improve event-tracking processes for price changes, volume impacts, new items, promotional displays and temporary price reductions.
• Track category, brand, new-item and promotional performance, then translate findings into concise recommendations for the Sales team and PCB leadership.
• Partner with Sales and Category Management to develop category and consumer insights for internal planning, business reviews and customer discussions.
• Facilitate forecast trend reviews, align PCB and Walmart forecasts and improve forecast accuracy.
• Support base and incremental sales reviews and help maintain assumptions and inputs in trade planning and forecast systems.
• Use Scintilla, Numerator and other available data sources to create actionable category and e-commerce analytics.
• Lead internal scorecard reviews and support external business reviews as assigned, including communication related to Walmart new-item and promotion processes.
• Build productive relationships with cross-functional partners and contribute to ad hoc analyses that increase sales productivity and business visibility.

• Build expertise at the intersection of sales analytics, category analytics and emerging e-commerce analytics.
• Make a visible impact by helping shape new omnichannel scorecards and event-tracking processes.
• Gain broad exposure…