Sales Operations Manager – Walmart

Our purpose is to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home around the world! We work very hard to provide our consumers with high-quality, exciting 5-star products that make life easier. We thrive on passion and innovation and are looking for great people, with great ideas, who want to build the next big thing and develop while they do.

This is a hybrid role based in our Rogers, AR office*

This role is the primary resource for operational functions associated with driving revenue and margin for the Shark business at Walmart. Key functions will include demand planning, forecasting, inventory management, POS & trend analysis, trade spend management, daily monitoring of overall business trends and operational performance. This position plays an important role monitoring real time business issues, interpreting data and serving as the gatekeeper to all forecasting initiatives. The role will work with Shark|Ninja internal cross functional resources to ensure business issues are communicated and acted upon in a timely manner as well as with direct account contacts.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Become a leading resource on customer specific needs and requirements while providing timely communication to both the account and company ensuring you meet the needs and requirements of both
• Coordinate and track sales performance to promotional expectations with sales analyst and help formulate a future shipment plan based on the results
• Work closely with customer demand planning teams, Sales Directors and Replenishment Managers on forecasting, inventory planning, orders, and supply chain management.
• Input the forecast in “SFO” System and update Data Governance on new additions and updated price lists to SFO
• Collaborate with team to conduct periodic meetings with customers’ replenishment teams to review recent results and confirm changes affected positively and negatively to the sales
• Assist Sales team partners to contribute to the annual budget planning process
• Coordinate customers’ domestic/import orders with supply chain both in planning and availability dates
• Work with Sales Director on trade spend management. Input confirmed promotional plans into forecasting system
• Work with Accounting reconciling customers monthly/quarterly vendor income true-up.
• Coordinate monthly vendor income collection with retail partner
• Partner with the Sales Director and Account Manager to coordinate monthly business reviews, weekly flash reports and monthly consensus deck
• Quickly develop a working knowledge of the assigned business from both a product and consumer basis for our product and our competitions
• Create and assist with managing and tracking the annual Joint Business Plan for all departments
• Provide monthly financial update and conduct a deep dive analysis into key operational/sales performance metrics
• Work closely with internal accounting team and third-party service to reconciling post audit claims
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 3-5 years of experience in Forecasting/Budgeting & Demand Planning along with business analytics/financial role within the consumer products industry
• Retail Link and Luminate experience preferred – ability to interpret data and make recommendations.
• Ability to draw insights across multiple complex data sets and incorporate into decision making
• Ability to travel to Boston area HQ quarterly.
  
  

At SharkNinja, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are vital to our global success. Valuing each unique voice and blending all of our diverse skills strengthens SharkNinja’s innovation every day. We support ALL associates in bringing their authentic selves to work, making an impact, and having the opportunity for career acceleration. With help from our leadership, associates, and our community, we aim to have equity be a key component of the SharkNinja DNA.

YOUR ROLE in leading our SUCCESS DRIVERS & representing our UNIQUE MINDSET

• Lead us to be “RARELY SATISFIED”
• Make things better each day; “PROGRESS OVER PERFECTION”
• Use your knowledge of our consumer, understand that “DETAILS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE”
• Deliver something great; “WINNING IS A TEAM SPORT”
• Be clear and honest, “COMMUNICATING FOR IMPACT”
  
  

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