Job description
Business Unit Overview:
The company’s portfolio ranges from iconic brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, Grape-Nuts® and PEBBLES™ cereals, as well as Peter Pan® peanut butter to the top-selling Malt-O-Meal® brand of value ready-to-eat cereals and more. Our business is growing and that’s where you come in. Our company is a hearty mix of ambitious people who want to make great things happen. Location Description:
Qualifications:
Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings Inc., is focused on providing delicious food choices for every taste and budget. 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.
Brand:
It’s an exciting time in pet food! Post Holdings, Inc. recently announced an agreement to buy several pet food brands from The J.M. Smucker Co. The transaction is anticipated to close early in the second calendar quarter of 2023. Upon closing of the acquisition, Post expects to create a new pet food platform within Post Consumer Brands. This role is part of the team of 1,000 employees who will soon join the Post family to focus on and grow these iconic pet brands.
The company’s portfolio ranges from iconic brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, Grape-Nuts® and PEBBLES™ cereals, as well as Peter Pan® peanut butter to the top-selling Malt-O-Meal® brand of value ready-to-eat cereals and more. Our business is growing and that’s where you come in. Our company is a hearty mix of ambitious people who want to make great things happen.
Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minn. is about 20 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Lakeville has all the benefits of smaller town living with access to everything a large metropolitan area has to offer. Join more than 400 team members collaborating on the two-building campus to help put breakfast on the tables of millions of consumers in North America.
Responsibilities:
This role is based in Minneapolis, MN (hybrid) with 20-30 travel required or 100% remote within the US with 20-30% travel required.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Assist Regional Sales Managers (Wholesale, Drug, Club, Regional Grocery) in identifying market opportunities (communicate this information to Customer)
- Analyze business on a daily/weekly basis using IRI software
- Develop category reviews that will be leveraged to grow pet food category sales
- Use information from multiple data sources to identify sales opportunities
- Develop solutions with respect to product distribution, promotion, pricing, and shelf-placement
- Prepare clear and concise presentations to inform of business/consumer trends, existing opportunities and solutions for growth
- Analyze shipment and retailer portals to understand POS movement and inventory trends to support HQ forecasting
- Participate in various training activities to enhance job performance and personal growth
- Conduct market visits that include:
- Meetings in broker’s offices
- Retail audits
- Account calls
- Business planning sessions with National Account Managers and brokers
- Complete/attend all necessary information & technology training
- Assist other functional areas to develop business opportunities and provide information to Customers.
- Work with Marketing to identify and close opportunities
- Work with Marketing Research to analyze, recap, and disseminate research findings
- Work with Category Development Manager on special projects.
Qualifications:
SELECTION CRITERIA
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree is required
Experience
- Consumer packaged goods experience required
- 2 years of analytical experience is required; plus sales experience preferred
- Proficient in Excel, ability to manipulate data
- Syndicated sales data software experience is preferred (i.e. IRI or Nielsen)
- Shelving software experience is a plus (i.e. Apollo)
- Experience with SymphonyIQ is preferred
Other
- Strong computer and analytical skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Available to travel 20-30 %
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