Sr Director Sales Planning Walmart/Club

The Senior Director, Sales Planning will operate as a general manager of sales planning and shopper marketing efforts focused on opportunities to grow sales and share. The role provides channel lens in annual and 3-year planning and serves as the primary point of contact for marketing and commercial planning.

• Sales Planning & Strategy: Create and develop innovative channel specific plans/strategies to grow sales, share, and profits in assigned customer and channels. (Aligned to Sales VP’s)
• Collaborate with the Senior Leaders of the customer or customer group to develop a growth plan based on mutually aligned objectives and goals
• Shopper Marketing Management: Oversee development of insights, promotions and new item shopper support
• People Management: Develop best in class Sales Planning team
• Organization Leadership: Ensure integration with rest of organization with particular emphasis on sales

Education: Bachelor’s degree required, MBA or equivalent marketplace experience preferred

Experience: 12+ years of experience required interpreting data and communicating insight and findings to senior management and external partners in a clear, compelling way. Experience in managing planning and understand forecasting models, databases, and have the ability to work with large sets of complex data.