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.

Reporting to the Director of Strategic Sales, the Manager, Strategic Planning & Operations collaborates with cross functional teams to drive the standardization and processes of the Strategic Sales and Analytics function while managing POS insights, market strategy, and pricing recommendations for key accounts. The Manager, Strategic Planning & Operations will look for the smoke and light up targets around the health of the business, category, and market opportunities. This is an excellent position for a highly motivated team member who operates with urgency, escalates risks to senior management and drives resolutions. The Manager, Strategic Planning & Operations builds bridges between the cross functional teams and is seen as the glue that holds the team together by owning communication streams across all groups.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with other functions to actively facilitate the interaction of cross-functional stakeholders to bring products to market, including managing risks and schedules
• Ensure the success of weekly cross-functional meetings designed to quickly identify risks to performance, driving team accountability to actions & tactics required to course correct
• Collaborate with teams to ensure that the go to market strategy will provide high rate of sales with flawlessly executed launches
• Make use of KPI’s and data to help drive decision making across the cross-functional teams
• Own the creation and maintenance of the retail sell-in calendar, ensuring retail readiness for all new product launches
• Identify program risks, develop mitigation/contingency and track progress
• Spot resource and knowledge gaps and take steps necessary to highlight/remedy
• Act as the “Process Center of Excellence” for the Strategic Sales and Analytics organization

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• 5-7 years Program management experience
• Experience desired in some combination of commercialization, sales analytics, new product launches or program management
• Assertive, confident, capable
• Strong influence skills
• Able to cultivate a high performing team delivering results
• Excellent written, verbal and communication skills. Experienced addressing C-Suite, Peer Functional Groups, and Customer audiences
• Cross-functional leadership skills
• Possess a strong bias to action and accountability
• Intermediate/working level skills with MS office suite
• High energy, with a positive attitude
• Detail oriented