Whether the cook in the kitchen is a future Emeril or a toddler helping to make chocolate chip cookies, chances are Pampered Chef has a better, faster, and more delicious way of getting things done in the kitchen. We sell our superior quality, innovative collection of prepping, cooking and serving products through a network of over 42,000 direct sales consultants throughout the US, Canada and Germany. Millions of customers use our products every day. Established in 1980 by Doris Christopher, Pampered Chef was acquired by Berkshire Hathaway in 2002, a sure sign of our growth potential.

We have an amazing CEO, Tracy Britt Cool, a key member of Warren Buffet’s team, (google her story!), and are in the second year of an amazing reinvention and our initial results are incredible positive. If you are looking for direct interaction with the officer team of a company, a meaningful career where you can impact lives daily, have incredible responsibility early on in your career, and have access to the Berkshire Hathaway network, this is the place to apply! You will get both strategy and execution experience.

MAIN COURSE (Job Responsibilities):

Our team creates, maintains, and evaluates strategy, programs and resources that our independent sales consultants use every day. We examine what works, what doesn’t, and strive to provide the best possible experience for our consultants and customers.

At Pampered Chef, data drives all our decisions and strategies. In this role, you’ll analyze our biggest challenges and opportunities related to our direct sales force. The successful candidate will have an ability to gather field insights, provide analyses for strategic decision making, execute cross-functional initiatives and measure results. Your role is critical to driving Pampered Chef’s recognition, incentive and sales force enabling strategies. You must demonstrate an enthusiasm to helping transform Pampered Chef and have a desire for continuous learning and development and. This role is also an opportunity to develop strategic thinking and project management skills. This position reports to the Senior Manager, Field Strategy. More specifically, this role entails the following:
• Support the development of a comprehensive Pampered Chef field performance strategy – focusing on recognition, incentive and compensation programs and sales tools.
• Assist in the strategic development and implementation of programs that drive performance in the field.
• Develop and implement field sales tools and dashboards (with collaboration from IT team).
• Analyze the impact and contribution of current and future field incentive programs and develop process to track on a continuous basis.
• Analyze the impact and performance of compensation plan for independent sales consultants.
• Project manage the implementation of incentive and recognition programs.
• Forecast the number of recognition and incentive earners to better predict impact and cost of programs.
• Collect field competitive intelligence including best practices within and outside of the direct selling channel.

KEY INGREDIENTS (Position Requirements):

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, finance or economics.
• 2-3 years of high-performing experience in business analytics.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Able to gather and leverage data to make decisions and drive growth using analytics and testing methodologies.
• Ability to successfully work with cross-functional teams to accomplish objectives.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to interact with all levels of management and the independent sales consultants. 
• Experience within a sales analytics function, preferred.
• Experience working with an independent agent or direct sales channel, preferred.
• MS Excel pro.
• Must be highly proficient with MS Office suite (including PowerPoint, Access).
• Approximately 10% travel required

DESSERT! (The Sweet Rewards of Working at Pampered Chef!):

Our core values are respect, humility, accountability, meritocracy, integrity, authenticity, passion, and innovation (in no particular order!). We embody those values in our work, but also in the great desserts we offer to our coworkers.

• Each and every coworker makes a difference every day by asking tough questions, finding the answers and then making it happen – our entrepreneurial employees are key to our success! Pampered Chef is big enough to implement cutting edge technology, small enough for all ideas to be heard and challenged.
• We are a learning focused environment – We want you to learn from us and we expect to learn from you and what you are passionate about! We even provide training and development for added brain power.
• We collaborate every day in a high-tech space with writable walls, open collaboration zones, quiet “I need to contemplate” zones, and fun zones with ping pong, basketball and bags, of course. No boring cubicle farms here!
• We are concerned about your physical and financial well-being and offer BC/BS PPO or HMO health plans, dental, disability, matched 401K, life insurance and Onsite fitness center, comfy chairs, onsite cafeteria, dry cleaning valet service
• Most Importantly, Pampered Chef has a strong, proven history of bringing fun to cooking, creativity to recipes, and sharing to family and friends around their table.