Sr. Analyst, Customer Business Planning
Location: Remote with the requirement to travel with business needs
Role Purpose
The Sr. Analyst, Customer Business Planning, works closely with the NA sales teams in all aspects of the sales planning process with a strong focus on sales forecasting and analyzing revenue / trade positions vs targets across all brands in the Hain portfolio. This role reports to the Director, Customer Business Planning, and has a high level of internal cross-functional visibility.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Leads the development of the monthly / annual revenue forecast based on consumption trends, new item launches, shopper marketing initiatives, feature activities and competitive impactors
- Continuously monitors forecast and proactively adjusts model assumptions
- Facilitates the monthly customer cross-functional consensus forecast alignment process
- Tracks customer’s month-to-date sales pacing and forecasting accuracy vs locked plan
- Monitors the entry and maintenance of promotional plans in the Hain Trade Management system
- Monitors customer’s budget vs. actual trade pacing and leads root cause analysis with the local Team to understand variance drivers
- Facilitates risk and opportunity tracking
- Leads the reconciliation process between Hain internal reporting software
- Assists with reporting development
- Assists with scenario planning analysis
- Assists with customer level pricing and promotion strategy deployment
- Recommends and implements process improvements to increase efficiency and simplification within the sales planning process
- Actively participates in best practice sharing with Sales Planning peer set