Customer Planning Manager

Hopkins, MN

$93K/yr – $154K/yrSenior Level5+ years exp

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end trade spend program, turning data into ROI with budgeting, governance, and analytics that drive volume, revenue, and profit against approved spend.

  • Own annual and quarterly trade planning with cross-functional partners to align with business goals.
  • Deliver data-driven insights and reporting to optimize trade investment and post-promotion ROI.
  • Advance trade spend analytics, tools, and processes to strengthen scalable decision-making.

Job Description

Responsibilities - Build and manage a bottoms-up annual trade budget in partnership with RGM, ensuring alignment to company objectives. - Oversee trade fund allocation, targets, and governance to support customer and organizational goals. - Lead trade fund reconciliation and post-promotion ROI analysis to identify optimization opportunities. - Monitor trade performance to deliver volume, revenue, and profit goals within approved spending parameters. - Track, analyze, and communicate key KPIs to support net revenue management and profitability. - Partner with sales planning to co-lead annual and quarterly trade planning timelines and deliverables. - Develop and execute customer-level trade strategies and tactics to improve ROI and trade efficiency. - Deliver data-driven insights and customized reporting to inform trade investment decisions. - Advance trade spend analytics, tools, and processes to strengthen decision-making and scalability. - Provide trade and sales expertise to support customer and broker programs, ad hoc initiatives, and incremental funding requests.
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Schwan's Company

As one of the fastest-growing leaders and producers in North America’s food industry, Schwan’s Company is dedicated to bringing people and cultures together through global flavors and delicious ethnic cuisine. Our commitment to this is reflected in the innovative foods we produce, our iconic brands and through a team of exceptional talent. Today, as a subsidiary of CJ CheilJedang, Schwan’s is a fast-paced, forward-thinking company that’s on its way to bigger and better things. We are a leading food marketer, with trusted brands like RED BARON®, FRESCHETTA®, BIG DADDY'STM and TONY'STM pizza, EDWARDS® and MRS. SMITH'S® desserts, and BIBIGO® and PAGODA® Asian-style foods. And, with manufacturing operations in California, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas, we are well-prepared to deliver a great experience to our consumers wherever they shop and eat.

Founded in 1952
Marshall, Minnesota, USA
4.8K employees (277 in marketing)