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OVERVIEW
The National Retail Organization (NRO) is seeking a Retail Trade Planning Lead (TPL) focused on Walmart Pet Retail Execution to provide the NRO, Pet Retail Excellence team, and Walmart Pet customer selling teams with retail execution planning, business analytics, and systems support to advance General Mill’s partnership with Walmart and Pet. In this newly created role, you will partner with the Pet Retail Excellence team, along with the Walmart Pet Customer team, on end-to-end execution. You will lead a standardized, integrated process for planning and development that delivers executional excellence to Walmart Pet Customer team plans using data led processes and decision making. This role works with and through others to achieve results. You will work closely with the Business Development team, Customer Management, Trade Planning, Category Management, and Customer Marketing along with other cross-functional partners.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
EXECUTIONAL EXCELLENCE
Leads a standardized, integrated process for the planning, development and execution of WM SSRs across WM Pet Customer Team to enable NRO selling Technical set-up of events in Salesforce
Partners with the WM Pet Customer Team to develop offers that maximize multiple inputs to drive selling effectiveness
Sets Retail Selling Goals for Selling Initiatives
Consults with the Pet Retail Excellence team and WM Pet Customer Team to develop effective and impactful offer selling materials in partnership with the Walmart Pet customer team.
Partners with key NRO stakeholders to drive alignment and visibility to goals, debrief results and apply key learnings. Work to analyze and debrief key selling windows utilizing retail execution and performance data from Salesforce, e2Open, Tableau and retail syndicated data from Luminate/Scintilla and Nielsen.
Analyze geographic business trends to develop store/market/regional selling opportunities
Answer/resolve NRO field stakeholder questions and store challenges in a timely manner
Lead the NRO Retail Execution, Systems, Planning, and Reporting for Pet New Items, and UPC Conversions.
Partner and influence NRO Sales leaders to understand key needs and opportunities.
Deliver clear and streamlined communication at all levels to drive seamless planning and execution.
Partners with the Pet Retail Excellence team on POS Display Materials for NRO in-store display execution
PROBLEM SOLVING, DATA & ANALYTICS
In partnership with the Pet Retail Excellence team, gather and analyze syndicated data (e.g., from Scintilla, Nielsen, NRO, consumers and/or customers) to identify opportunities to drive sales growth through implementation of retail strategies (NRO WM Pet TPL responsible for NRO data)
Lead development of analytics and reporting to support cadence of accountability in partnership with NRO BDOPS and the Pet Retail Excellence team
In partnership with the Pet Retail Excellence team, responsible for post-execution analytics and communicating key learnings across all stakeholders
Walmart Display Compliance Reporting and Analytics (internal NRO reporting)
Maintain data integrity within NRO specific data sets, and resolve any issues
Be highly proficient with data systems and analyzing, organizing, and formatting reports
System responsibilities include e2open, Salesforce CG Cloud back-office
ENGAGING LEADER
Model Engaging Leader behaviors to foster an inclusive environment, embrace a learning mindset and demonstrate personal accountability.
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