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 Nutrish®, Kibbles ‘n Bits® and 9Lives® dog and cat food. 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 www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook for the latest news.

At Post Consumer Brands, we’ve spent generations showing up for families, starting with breakfast, the most important meal of the day. Our cereals have become a trusted part of daily routines, helping spark conversations, fuel busy mornings, and create everyday moments that bring families closer together, including their furry four-legged family members, who have recently become a part of our story. As families have evolved, so have we. What began at the breakfast table has expanded into snacks, peanut butter, and pet food, because caring for a family means feeding every part of it. With the addition of several iconic pet brands, we’ve extended our purpose: to make high-quality, accessible food for everyone under the same roof.

This phase is still new, and that’s what makes it exciting. As we continue to grow across grocery and pet, we’re looking for people who care about good food, thoughtful work, and the kind of impact that stretches from store shelves to kitchen tables, and food bowls, across the country.

As a Post Consumer Brands virtual team member, your primary mission is to make better happen... virtually. At Post, your health and happiness are one of our top priorities, so take some time to set up your office or workspace in a way that suits you best while enhancing your creativity, thinking and productivity. While working, spend time collaborating and building connections with your team, whether it is a video happy hour or a visit to the corporate office.

The Manager, Sales Planning (SP) will support our Pet business and Customer Development Organization. The Manager, SP acts as a sales strategist to their respective Sales VPs and provides the entire customer selling teams with analytics, trade planning, and trade systems support to advance PCBs strategies. The Manager, SP actively participates in the design of promotional programs and coordinates their implementation cross-functionally.

The Manager, SP will provide support across channels and is a remote eligible position.

Key Accountabilities

• Take accountability and ownership for results, demonstrate an understanding of our consumers & customers, and actively prioritize.
• Collaborate with customer selling teams to effectively integrate customer data and insights to optimize PCB’s trade and brand strategies for Pet.
• Work with account team to deliver accurate brand planning and trade spending information in our trade planning system.
• Collaborate in the design of promotional programs/plans and coordinate their implementation with customer selling teams.

• Consolidate and share insights regarding sales, promotion effectiveness, and merchandising results across internal stakeholders.
• Develop tools to continuously improve communication across the enterprise.
• Proactively facilitate, create, and share best practices that move the needle.
• Provide management with planning reports and analysis as necessary.
• Support development of joint business plans & quarterly business reviews by providing key information and collaboration on presentation materials with customer selling teams.

• Identify opportunities to drive sales volume via distribution, shelving, merchandising, and pricing through data analytics from syndicated data.
• Proactively seek out and present solutions to business opportunities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant industry experience in sales, account management, trade funding, category management, or other relevant experience.
• Experience working with Retailers in a Sales, Account Management, Trade Marketing or Sales Planning capacity highly preferred
• Ability to work in a team-oriented environment and provide support as needed.
• Capable of building working relationships that influence at all levels.
• Keen judgment and problem-solving skills with an ability to adapt and prioritize in a fast-changing work environment.
• Successful demonstration of analytical skills using various data sources (e.g., Nielsen, IRI, CPM, sales data.)
• Effective written and presentation skills with an aptitude to simplify complex subject matter.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook), Tableau, etc.

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant industry experience in sales, account management, trade funding, category management, or other relevant experience.
• Experience working with Retailers in a Sales, Account Management, Trade Marketing or Sales Planning capacity highly preferred
• Ability to work in a team-oriented environment and provide support as needed.
• Capable of building working relationships that influence at all levels.
• Keen judgment and problem-solving skills with an ability to adapt and prioritize in a fast-changing work environment.
• Successful demonstration of analytical skills using various data sources (e.g., Nielsen, IRI, CPM, sales data.)
• Effective written and presentation skills with an aptitude to simplify complex subject matter.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook), Tableau, etc.