Wells Enterprises · 1 month ago
Senior Manager, Business Planning - Walmart Team
Bentonville, AR
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expWells Enterprises is seeking a Senior Manager, Business Planning to develop and deliver effective strategies for the Walmart team in collaboration with cross-functional partners. The role involves managing internal project processes, conducting sales reviews, and ensuring alignment with Walmart's annual and long-term growth targets.
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Responsibilities
Owns daily short- and long-term project management for Walmart team, creating and managing the on-time execution of 3+ year calendar planning and project management inclusive of customer and internal strategic meetings, deadlines for pre-work and reviews, cross-functional owners, and pre-alignments from advise/inform groups
Works with the VP Sales, Team Lead Branded, Team Lead Private Brands, and Sr. Manager Business Analytics, as well as internal cross-functional teams to create the strategic roadmap and materials for annual/long-term plans, ensuring overall Walmart channel plan, brand plans, and other key cross-functional plans are in alignment to meet objectives successfully
Owns the internal management of the cross-functional process for developing, implementing, tracking against, and delivering Wells’ Walmart annual and long-term growth targets. Manages Wells internal monthly and annual planning process for team, including sales, trade, and forecast tracking against target, building block drivers, and R&O identification, development, alignment/approval, and post-execution tracking
Develops and conducts monthly sales review materials, meetings, and presentations to drive clarity around changes in consumption and shipping trends and their impact to annual and long-term forecast, as well as owning development of opportunity and gap-closing planning, alignment/approval, and post-execution tracking cross-functionally. Ensures changes in totality are being communicated effectively to the correct cross-functional Wells teams for volume, production, and capacity planning, financial analysis, and long-term strategic impact review prior to finalization
Evaluates and makes recommendations to increase the performance of both new and core products and promotional efforts with the sales team and cross-functional internal partners
Owns preparation of all internal meeting material needs, as well as managing visual impact/storytelling for requested customer presentations, ensuring materials are clear, concise, and visually impactful for the target audience
Creates, maintains, and socializes strategic planning calendar and process for meetings and deliverables with customer. Owns all meeting planning timelines, internal needs, pre-work deadlines, owners, communications/informs and decision requests, and content deliverables for customer meetings
Develops and provides effective ongoing reporting tracking progress of key initiatives against targets. Update reporting when initiatives change to ensure status against latest key priorities is automatically available. Provide weekly updates on key changes with commentary based on analysis of drivers, including potential upcoming headwinds/tailwinds and workstreams in progress to accelerate success or stem risks
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree required or 8 years similar experience in managerial-level position
5+ years direct experience working with Walmart
Intimate knowledge of Walmart systems and business practices (Scintilla Pro, Supplier One, Retail Link, etc.)
Financial planning and analysis; trade experience
Demonstrated strengths in financial planning, project management, strong organization and communication skills, impactful visual storytelling
Excellent problem-solving skills
Skilled and engaging presenter; Highly level proficient in Tableau, Excel, PowerPoint
Effectively influence across various levels and functions without direct authority, driving desired results
Proactively develop, gain alignment on, and successfully execute strategies and tactics to deliver objectives
Communicate clearly and effectively across stakeholders to drive desired outcome
Preferred
Consumer goods marketplace expertise/food industry preferred
Syndicated Data (Nielsen, Numerator preferred)
Company
Wells Enterprises
Wells Enterprises produces and markets ice creams and frozen treats.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2022-12-07Acquired
Leadership Team
Allison Burke
Human Resources Business Partner II
Brian Ardillo
HR Business Partner II
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