Senior Sales Analyst - Walmart

At Ghirardelli, we’re on a mission to become a one billion dollar brand and beyond. We want to be every consumer’s first choice of premium chocolate, and we believe we can do that through our products and the way we do business, which are all inspired by our brand commitment to Making Life A Bite Better. We are a company committed to both personal and professional growth and believe that each employee contributes directly to Ghirardelli's growth and success.

 

The Walmart Sr. Sales Analyst will play a key position in our strategic partnership with Walmart and Ghirardelli and play a key role in executing our Ghirardelli Gameplan.  They will be the subject matter expert in analysis & reporting on our business to include but not limited to:  POS Sales, Inventory, Market Share, Forecasting, Trade Management, Online Item Content, etc.

Qualifications

• Support achievement of key business objectives through:
• Managing Sales budget and share targets.
• Merchandising, assortment, pricing and shelving (MAPS) objectives with Walmart.
• Leveraging insights to support key business objectives.
• Analytics
• Assess trends, analyze data and identify key Walmart & Sam’s Club opportunities for growth.
• Manage weekly and monthly reporting
• Utilize internal sales data, syndicated data and customer-specific POS data to develop actionable insights, strategies and tactics.
• Provide modular tracking and analysis
• Analyze, track and monitor business results (sales, share, retail impact, etc.) versus objectives using designated tools (Walmart Scintilla, IRI, SAP systems)
• Promotional analysis.
• Participate in customer meetings
• Provide analytical support for accurate demand consensus forecasting.
• Actively communicate project status, competitive activity and other business-critical information both internally and externally as needed.
• Work with internal replenishment partners on tracking and forecast for McLane/CM.
• Manage Walmart Item 360 Updates
• Assist with meeting set ups, samples, etc.
• Completing other duties as assigned