Supports the East Pet Sales Team through reporting, data and system maintenance, merchandising and promotional planning, customer meeting preparation, forecasting, business reviews, and administrative coordination. The role analyzes sales and customer KPIs, maintains SharePoint resources, supports invoicing and contracts, coordinates presentations and planning activities, and helps execute pricing, promotion, and merchandising initiatives.
Your Opportunity as the Sales Coordinator-East Pet Sales Team
In this role you will be the key support within the sales organization for the East Pet Sales Team. You will collaborate and work cross functionally with teams across the commercial organization by providing support with daily, weekly and monthly ad-hoc reporting, internal and external systems/data maintenance, assist in customer meeting prep and analyzing key opportunities to help deliver sales targets.
Location: Working Remotely within the United States
In this role you will:
Business Planning & Analyses
- Own custom reporting needs, developing, updating and interpreting data to provide insights to sales team and support ad hoc business needs
- Create and maintain merchandising planners for commercial organization
- Assist managers with administrative needs of business: customer contracts, new item set up, cost changes, internal/external audit resolution, deduction and reclaim management, etc.
- Support promotional planning and maintenance in the Trade Planning System
- Partner with sales team to develop new item presentations, evaluate business trends, and create presentations supporting sales priorities and initiatives
- Supports sales needs for annual business and joint planning processes
Strengthen Customer Planning & Forecasting
- Develop strong understanding of customer business strategies, systems and resources to support sales team with focus on continual improvement
- Manage customer system reporting to support team needs and analysis with recommendations to improve; collaborate with Analytics organization
- Support ad-hoc requests for customer system data as needed
- Understand customer KPI’s, and collaborate with cross functional and sales teams to deliver against retailer expectations
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to communicate and ensure flawless execution of pricing, promotion, & merchandising plans
Accelerate Team Performance
- Own & maintain SharePoint site and calendars for team, support record keeping expectations
- Lead coordination for sales team business reviews
- Support invoicing/payment processing for the team as needed
- Assist in the preparations of market visits & key internal and customer meetings
- Support ongoing special project work, product samples, office supply needs, etc
What we are looking for:
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree
- 2 years of business experience (fulltime and/or internship experience)
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Demonstrated PowerPoint experience putting data and graphs into presentation ready formats
- Strong desire to learn & succeed
- Self-motivated, organized and has ability to manage and prioritize multiple/diverse priorities
- Excellent oral & written communication skills
Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:
- Consumer Packaged Goods industry experience
- Advanced Excel skillset
- Co-Pilot (AI) business integration and usage experience
- Desire to grow and develop in a future Sales and/or Commercialization role
The Right Place for You
We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.
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We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status.
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