Sr. Sales Analyst, Walmart; Pet

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.

The Sr. Sales Analyst - Walmart, Pet turns point-of-sale, inventory, shipment, trade and financial data into clear recommendations that help grow our Walmart Pet Food business profitably. As the analytical lead and a close partner to Sales, you will strengthen forecasting, customer planning and business routines while helping the team move from insight to action.

You will work across Sales, Omni-channel, Finance, Revenue Growth Management, Demand Planning, Supply Chain, Marketing and Category Management. This is a high-visibility role for someone who enjoys learning a business quickly, asking strong questions and building practical stories that support customer and internal decisions.

• Own the monthly Walmart Pet forecast for base and incremental volume, aligning assumptions across Sales, Omni-channel, Finance, Demand Planning and Supply Chain.
• Monitor forecast accuracy and bias, explain customer and financial implications, and coordinate corrective actions.
• Build scenario models using historical trends, promotional lift, distribution, velocity, inventory and customer inputs to support demand and shipment decisions.
• Lead weekly, monthly, quarterly and event-based reporting, highlighting performance, risks, opportunities, decisions, owners and follow-through actions.
• Use Walmart Scintilla, Retail Link, Item 360, Nielsen, Circana/IRI, Spectra and other available sources to identify customer, category and brand growth opportunities.
• Create concise selling stories and customer-ready recommendations for line reviews, business reviews, joint planning and recurring Walmart meetings.
• Measure promotional lift and return on investment, complete post-event analyses and recommend shifts that improve growth and return.
• Maintain customer commitments, trade-spend visibility, planning inputs, item setup and item maintenance with accurate documentation and controls.
• Partner across Sales, Category Management, Finance, Revenue Growth Management, Demand Planning, Supply Chain and Marketing to move recommendations through execution.
• Build repeatable reports, tools and routines that improve the Walmart Pet team’s planning and analytical capabilities.

• Serve as a trusted analytical partner to the Walmart Pet sales team, with meaningful exposure to customer and senior internal decisions.
• Build expertise across the pet category while working with a complex,…