Customer Strategy and Planning Analyst - Coca-Cola Refreshments : Job Details

BODYARMOR is a fast paced, dynamic environment where brand builders work together with the goal of becoming the number one sports drink! Extreme passion and teamwork are the essentials of being a successful member of the BODYARMOR team. BODYARMOR builds camaraderie amongst co-workers, and helps develop valuable relationships, with common goals in mind. BODYARMOR exudes an entrepreneurial culture combined with the resources and insight of one of the world's most iconic companies, The Coca-Cola Company, which acquired BODYARMOR in 2021. This unique environment gives people the ability to go above and beyond expectations, multi-task, meet deadlines, and have fun accomplishing goals.

BODYARMOR is looking for a Customer Strategy and Planning Analyst to join our team.

The Customer Strategy and Planning Analyst will be responsible for building a customer volume plan by customer for their region and supporting customer strategy analytics by working with the Customer, Trade Planning, RGM and Finance teams. The Customer Strategy and Planning Analyst will work with customer teams to maintain forecast accuracy, maintain key trackers for internal visibility, deliver insights, and identify growth opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Support the development of the annual bottoms up sales plan and monthly forecast updates with RGM and Trade Planning to ensure accurate volume and net revenue forecasts by product group and customer within analysts set of customers.
• Monitor and report daily and weekly level consumption against forecast for divisional scope and provide insights into deviations versus plan.
• Proactively identify gaps to plan by tracking syndicated consumption against projected sales from volume planning process by customer.
• Quantify customer planning opportunities with Sales and RGM by leveraging volume planner, trade planning system, syndicated data and trade spend targets.
• Work closely with customer teams to ensure all internal plan and communication tools remain up to date with promotional, distribution, meeting and innovation plans.
• Work with customer teams for post-promotion analysis for forecast and plan optimization.

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree required
• 0-2 years of previous experience in sales, trade marketing, sales planning or demand planning on a focused CPG product(s)
• Strong analytical, creative thinking, planning, organizing and problem-solving skills. Curious mindset is a must.
• Preferred experience with Business Intelligence tools (i.e. Power BI, Tableau) and ETL software (i.e. Parabola, Alteryx)
• Passion for understanding consumer behavior
• Strong attention to detail. Self-starter. Team player.
• Ability to adjust on the fly and thrive in an ever-changing environment
• Ability to travel (~10% of time)

The Coca-Cola Company will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca-Cola Company's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.

Skills: Customer Sales, Data Analysis, Waterfall Model

Pay Range: $75,000 - $90,000

Our Purpose and Growth Culture: We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what's possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors curious, empowered, inclusive and agile and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years.