We are looking for an Operations Analyst with a Walmart focus to join our growing team! This role serves as a key player in supporting the operations and sales initiatives of the company. This position will partner with the internal Walmart team for daily client management ensuring accuracy of purchase orders, shipping time and compliance reviews.

About us:

Powerplay Retail connects the right brands with the right retailers—doing whatever it takes to slash time-to-market, expand sales channels, and accelerate brand growth. The company was founded in 2006 and has launched and grown some of the world’s best brands at the most important online and in-store retailers.

We are not a traditional Minneapolis rep firm. While we do offer traditional sales representation as a service, it is the tip of the iceberg. We are also a North American distributor with vendor numbers at 70 (and counting) retailers. We are an Ecommerce Reseller; we purchase and manage 60,000 skus on Amazon and other marketplaces. We are an in-house retail media agency, providing our brands with comprehensive advertising services (DSP, PPC, etc) to accelerate growth. We have an expanding Premium Incentive / Corporate Gifting business segment. We are comprehensively entrepreneurial and always open to ideas for how we can grow and better serve our brand and retail partners.

We’re real people who love what we do and take pride in our work. We don’t believe in gimmicks and candidly are too busy for any pretense. The focus is on doing whatever it takes to slash time-to-market, expand sales channels, and accelerate growth for our brands. We don’t just talk. We DO. We work hard and have the partnerships, relationships, and results to show for it.

Who you are:

You are organized, have exceptional time management skills, are proactive and enjoy a fast-paced work environment helping multiple departments. You are technologically savvy and are able to work in multiple platforms while analyzing data. You have a go-getter attitude and want to work with a company that gets stuff done!

Primary responsibilities:

• Collaborate with clients and operations teams to create accurate forecasting and inventory management

• Management of promotional activity for assigned accounts including implementation, analysis, and budget spend

• Prepare and analyze business sales results, identify trends and actionable insights

• Communicate daily updates and day to day business needs to internal and external team members

• Build strong relationships with retail partners to successfully communicate business needs

• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• At least three years of experience in Retail or related industry, specifically Walmart, preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Merchandising, Business Management or related field, preferred

• Strong time management and prioritization skills

• Analytical skills and ability to think critically

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to learn various internal and external retail partner systems

• Business proficiency with Microsoft Suite, strong with Excel

• Hybrid environment out of our corporate office in Mendota Heights, MN (3 days per week in office) or remote out of the Bentonville, AR area

What we offer:

We provide competitive salaries and benefits to make sure you and your families are taken care of. This includes:

• 401k with a non-elective 3% contribution from Powerplay

• 75% of monthly insurance premiums paid for by Powerplay

• paid Maternity and Paternity Leave

• 9 paid holidays, plus week off between Christmas and New Year’s

• 15 days PTO upon hire

• flexible work environment

• cell phone reimbursement

• frequent food trucks, when in season

• stocked refrigerators

• happy hours, company outings, volunteer events

• opportunities to learn and grow in your career!