What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Planning Manager position at World Finer Foods, LLC.?
Assistant Planner Manager Role
Our Company:
World Finer Foods is a full-service sales, marketing and distribution company for specialty food and personal care brands. With over $250 million in annual sales, World Finer Foods sells over 35 brands and over 500 products from around the world.
Position Summary
Work closely with sales managers, internal teams and other stakeholders to create and execute annual sales plans aligned with business objectives and customer needs. Drive sales through cross functional collaboration, data analysis, and strong project management skills to identify potential risks and opportunities.
Job Duties:
- Maintain planning timeline to complete key deliverables on time with accuracy
- Develop sales forecast by item, brand and retailer through analysis of historical data, sales inputs and brand strategy
- Act as liaison between all internal and external stakeholders to ensure mutual goals are established and alignments is gained across all parties
- Analyze sales data and trends to identify opportunities and challenges, developing and updating sales forecasts and budgets based on historical performance and current data
- Partner closely with Regional Sales Managers to develop trade investment budgets in support of actionable in-store promotions, shopper and digital activities
- Actualize forecast and identify variances to plan, researching causation and developing corrective action (gap closure)
- Provide monthly commentary to senior management (brand/sales) on drivers of market performance (IRI and shipments) with recommendations to improve trends where needed
- Assist with maintaining budget through deductions review and reporting analysis
- Maintain Customer Fact Sheet leveraging CRM data
- Build and monitor New Item trackers to include acceptances, incremental items, lost distribution and key account promo plans
- Build pipeline volume estimates and phasing for financial and operational planning
Position Qualifications
- Experience managing strategic and tactical trade plans
- Strong Excel Skills
- Strong Work Ethics
- Demonstrated ability to influence across the organization
- Strong understanding of trade spending principles
- Involvement with customer annual planning process
- Financial acumen
- Thrives in fast-paced, multi-tasking environment
- Highly motivated individual with excellent communication, influencing, and project management skills
- Ability to work in an ambiguous environment and establish a new path and processes
- Strong analytical skillset and ability to clarify ambiguity in large data sets.
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree is required.
- MBA is preferred.
Company offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401 (k), life insurance and more.
The position is full-time, exempt, hybrid (in-office 3x per week) located in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and is available February 2025.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Salary : $250
