Retail Sales Strategy & Planning Lead- North America

Job description

Job purpose The Retail Sales Strategy & Planning Lead is critical role in enabling High Liner’s commercial success. The Retail Sales Strategy & Planning Lead is a champion of the annual planning process, supports S&OP, and plays a key role in defining our go-to-market strategies, empowering the Sales team to execute with excellence. Additionally, this role plays a strong supporting role in a variety of key business areas such as trade spend optimization, pricing strategy and execution, performance monitoring, innovation performance and forecasting. This position collaborates with Retail Sales, Marketing and Insights, and is responsible for ensuring channel and customer insights are incorporated in the development of brand and category plans. Essential Duties and responsibilities: - Lead discussions on Retail planning outlook to support accurate forecasting, strategic plans, and in-year plan achievement - Supports HLF forecasting, demand planning and consensus approach, via the S&OP process, facilitating ongoing ‘Risks and Opportunities’ identification and timely solutions - Lead or support strategic projects that enhance Sales Planning capabilities - Drive the activity/solutions ga...