Senior Sales Planner

Senior Sales Planner

The Senior Sales Planner will work across multiple business groups in support of reporting, analysis, forecasting and communication of sales performance and high impact business initiatives to drive data-driven decisions and profitable growth. Key activities will include developing insightful reporting and forecasting business opportunities and risks, coordinating planning with FP&A, and helping the Sales team collaborate with various teams across Hillman to plan and track new programs. This role will also be instrumental in tracking the impact of these initiatives and developing ongoing reporting. This role reports to the Manager, Sales Planning.

Essential Job Functions *

• Develop and operate scalable reporting, forecasting templates, and overall business intelligence infrastructure.
• Establish performance baselines for modeling key consumer actions.
• Lead tracking, monitoring, and reporting of ongoing sales performance.
• Provide accurate analysis relative to customer sales trends, weeks of supply and inventory analysis.
• Provide frequent, time-sensitive, ad hoc insights to inform executive decision-making.
• Track and analyze key promotional plans, new programs and tests.

• Build and maintain reports to track team sales performance vs. Financial Plans.
• Work closely with Consumer functional leads to develop business growth assumptions.
• Utilize customer Point of Sale (POS) data to identify opportunities and assist National Account Managers in adjusting plans to meet and exceed annual goals and objectives.

• Support creation of impactful, compelling presentation materials (decks, notes, write-ups, etc.) that effectively communicate financial projections, drivers, performance, risks, and opportunities to support prioritization discussions that will shape roadmap development

* This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

Employees are expected and encouraged to participate in safety and health program activities including immediately reporting hazards, immediately reporting unsafe work practices and incidents to supervisors, wearing required personal protective equipment, and participating in and supporting safety committee activities.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field.
• 5+ years of sales support, sales analysis or sales operations experience.
• Advanced MS Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint) including ability to utilize pivot tables, V-lookups, filters, and summarize data graphically.
• Experience with Tableau and Power BI is a plus.

Competencies Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strategic thinking, problem solving and storytelling.
• Passionate about making the complicated simple.
• Ability to manage large data sets and distill down to concise, actionable insights.
• Able to communicate information clearly and succinctly.
• Effectively manages time and resources to ensure that work is completed on time & efficiently.
• Detail oriented with the desire and capacity to work both independently and cross-functionally.
• Creative, adaptive, able to learn fast and think outside the box.
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills to build stakeholder trust.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving, and collaborative entrepreneurial environment.
• Comfortable learning and working with a variety of technology tools.

Operational Equipment

• Computer

The Hillman Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, protected veteran or military status, genetic information, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. The information collected by this application is solely to determine suitability for employment, verify identity and maintain employment statistics on applicants.