Trade Planning Lead

Description

Looking for a job that can grow into a lifelong career?

At Lactalis USA, we believe in promoting from within and giving our employees meaningful opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Whether you're just starting out or bringing years of experience, we'll provide the tools and support you need to succeed.

Lactalis is the world leader in dairy-a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Every day, we're proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together every day.

In the US, we offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani Italian cheeses and ricotta, President specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone's cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel, Black Diamond cheddar, and Parmalat milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi's, Stonyfield Organic, Brown Cow, Oui, Yoplait, Go-Gurt, :ratio, Green Mountain Creamery, and Mountain High, along with sour cream and a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun, Gopi, and Arz.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values-Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We're building a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone's unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us make an impact.

From your PASSION to ours

The Strategic Grocery team is seeking a Trade Planning Lead (TPL) to provide the Midwest Yogurt customer selling teams with analytic, trade planning, and trade systems support to advance our Yogurt Partnership with key retailers including Kroger, HEB, Target & Meijer.

In this role you will gain experience with large retailers and partner with the Sr. Customer Manager and field selling teams on planning for the Midwest Yogurt brands. You will work closely with Consumer Insights, the Marketing Teams, Supply Chain, and Customer Marketing to help to create and evaluate our omnichannel plans.

The Strategic Grocery team is looking for a candidate who can step into this role and demonstrate strong analytical skills, show flexibility and resilience and showcase an ability to build strong internal and external influence skills.

This role will be based in the Minneapolis, MN area. Remote will be considered.

Requirements

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

EXECUTIONAL EXCELLENCE

* Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and translate findings into actionable insights

* Ownership for results against Gross Sales, spend efficiency, share

* Takes personal accountability and ownership for results, deeply understands consumers, delivers market leading innovation and prioritizes what's important

* Assist customer teams to help maintain accurate planning and spending information in the trade planning system; educate others on importance of trade planner accuracy

* Actively participate in the design of feature programs and coordinate with internal teams to optimize resources and strengthen their effectiveness

PROBLEM SOLVING & ANALYTICS

* Utilize retailer data (Market 6, 84.51, etc) paired with Circana data to identify issues and opportunities

* Retrieve and analyze customer and consumer data to understand category and/or industry trends

SELLING EXPERTISE & LEADERSHIP

* Provide the team with support and guidance on trade tools provided by Lactalis' central trade planning team

ENGAGING LEADER

* Model Engaging Leader behaviors to foster an inclusive environment and embrace a learning mindset and demonstrate personal accountability

* Bring your authentic self to work and be an accelerator of culture within the team.

From your STORY to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

* Bachelor's Degree required

* Minimum 2 years of relevant industry experience in sales, account management, trade funding, category management or other relevant experience

* Successful demonstration of analytical skills using various internal and syndicated data sources (e.g., Market 6, 84.51, Circana, etc)

* Must be proficient in software packages (Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint) & internal systems (Trade Planner/Volume estimating)

* Self-starter with high resiliency, attention to detail, and comfort in a fast-paced environment

At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career.

Lactalis is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities.