Job Description

Your Opportunity as the Manager, Customer Commercialization-South & Central (Pet )

The Customer Commercialization (CC) Team serves as a critical conduit between Brand Marketing, Brand Commercialization, and the Field Sales Team. The Manager/Lead CC position owns customer business planning to enable category and customer growth and represents customer strategies to key internal constituents. They will also translate National Go to Market Strategies (GTMS) into customer specific activation and incorporate SBA targets into customer level quotas and budgets. This specific position will support the South + Central Sales Pet teams.

Location: Orrville Corporate Offices in Orrville, Ohio

Work Arrangements: Hybrid (Onsite Expectations of minimum 30% = 6 days a month)

In this role you will:

Run Customer & JMS Business planning

Develop and communicate customer roles and strategies within the SBA
Coordinate with internal functions to drive the customer planning process
Lead key customer planning activities internally – line reviews, innovation meetings, JBP and Top-to-Top meetings
Assist customer teams with Customer Strategic Plan build, roll-up and review
Execute against plan and monitor results against objectives (volume, spending, profit)
Tailor business drivers to meet customer key initiatives and growth drivers

Identify demand-creating solutions for customer-specific execution with the goal of achieving SBA plans

Validate assumptions against key metrics (ROI, on strategy, etc)
Coordinate with necessary internal functions (Brand Commercialization, Revenue Growth Management (RGM), Customer Finance, Demand Planning, Customer Logistics, etc) to support key customer initiatives

Develop customer plans, budgets, and profit goals tied to JBP

Own final approval of customer specific plan
Work with RGM/Sales Analyst to validate inputs and assumptions
Track progress against customer plan, supporting identification & action planning for risk and opportunity

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.

What we are looking for:

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree
5+ years of experience in Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Customer/sales facing experience
Proficiency in Microsoft Office
Proficiency in Spotfire, Tableau, CAS or similar platforms
Demonstrated ability to build relationships with cross-functional partners to drive business results
Demonstrated understanding of customer strategies and retail environment

Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:

Prior experience and demonstrated understanding of an accrual-based trade system
Prior experience in other commercial areas including Sales, Marketing, Category Leadership, etc. strongly
Experience in Spotfire, Tableau, CAS or similar platforms
Experience with Publix or Ahold Delhaize

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