Field Sales Planning Associate Manager - Family Dollar/Dollar Tree

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Your role at Clorox:

As a Customer Planning Manager on the Family Dollar/Dollar Tree team, you will play a pivotal role in driving customer team operations and deploying the customer growth strategy by effectively managing customer relationships, forecast and checkbook. You'll support the Sales Team by managing the promotional planning process, delivering insights through data analysis, and ensuring smooth execution of Clorox and customer-facing initiatives. This is a high-impact role requiring strong analytical thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to understand Clorox systems and tools.

In this role, you will:

• Identify and assess growth opportunities and results, manage customer checkbook and all Exceedra plans, and create and submit customer contracts
• Maintain in-line spend estimates, reconcile post-audit funds, and analyze budgets to flag and understand over- or under-spends
• Drive accurate sales forecasting, incorporating driver inputs such as growth expectations, promotional calendars, and risk/opportunity assessments within AAA framework
• Track performance vs. forecast, conduct root cause analyses, identify gaps (e.g., promo misses), and monitor and report on shipping, consumption trends, and inventory levels
• Build capability to drive growth and eliminate waste by deploying tools, processes and resources to support organization
• Own standard reporting and ad hoc analytics using tools like Exceedra, IRIS, PowerBI, CoPilot, TPO, and High Radius
• Use syndicated and customer-specific omni data to identify white space and growth opportunities (e.g., distribution voids, new items)
• Collaborate with analysts to assess ROI and performance metrics
• Coordinate logistics for customer sales meetings (venue, accommodations, food, A/V, etc.)
• Build strategic relationships with customer buying team including negotiating key segments and heavy contribution to full-team customer engagements
• Serve as the go-to expert for enterprise tools and systems and support administrative and operational tasks to keep the team running efficiently

What we look for:

• Bachelor's degree in related field
• A minimum of 3 years of CPG experience
• Data & analytics experience at senior analyst level or above with proven success
• Customer / retailer knowledge and understanding of processes, timelines, business plans and the creation of customer goals
• Be able to partner closely with cross functional roles such as Sales & Supply Planning, Supply Chain, and Analysts, removing barriers and obstacles as needed
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience working with forecasting and reporting tools (e.g., PowerBI, Exceedra, IRIS), along with having advanced Excel skills and comfort with large datasets
• Excellent communication and organizational skills with the ability to lead peers, influence internally, and communicate with drivers and complex variables in a succinct manner to senior teammates
• Thrives in fast paced environment and successfully manage multiple priorities

Workplace type:

Hybrid: This individual will be expected to work in the office 3 days a week and will work remotely the other 2 days.

Our values-based culture connects to our purpose and empowers people to be their best, professionally and personally. We serve a diverse consumer base which is why we believe teams that reflect our consumers bring fresh perspectives, drive innovation, and help us stay attuned to the world around us. That’s why we foster an inclusive culture where every person can feel respected, valued, and fully able to participate, and ultimately able to thrive. Learn more.

[U.S.]Additional Information:

At Clorox, we champion people to be well and thrive, starting with our own people. To help make this possible, we offer comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company match, flexi