As Business Planning Manager, reporting to a Director, you will integrate across Sales, Business Development, and Brand in leading annual plan management for AWG, WinCo Foods and C&S West. Develop prioritized specific sales goals and programs to translate into growth plans for field sales execution. Coordinate with Brand to develop, prioritize, and deliver plans consistent with long-range goals. Communicate insights and category growth goals, and lead the field in the delivery of annual volume, trade, and profit plans for your assigned brands.

Your Impact:

• Manage brand-specific strategy to ensure delivery of the annual volume, trade, and profit plan (nationally, channel-specific, and Joint Business Planning).
• Advocate and represent the customer point of view internally. Serve customer teams by securing internal agreement on efforts to succeed with the customer and accomplish Brand strategies. Serve Brand teams by providing the voice of the customer and integrating Brand strategies into customer business plans.
• Manage brand specific agenda and prioritization of projects. Help develop Customer level distribution and merchandising targets with supporting insights and merchandising activation plans for each initiative. Partner with Field Sales to achieve Brand merchandising, assortment, pricing and shelving (MAPS) goals.
• Manage activation of insights-oriented strategies for national and customer-specific levels. Help develop category growth goals, stories and new item presentations, organize presentation and communication of initiatives sell-in, develop compelling sales materials, and occasionally influence customers on sales calls. Analyze results of projects, recommend and make adjustments.
• Be a liaison between Customer Sales and Brand Teams to help implement JBP customer plans. Provide Brand teams ongoing visibility to JBP programs through a common process to include prioritization of customer-specific requests and monitoring brand trends at account level for performance intervention.

Your Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree required
• 3+ years CPG sales or related experience
• Experience with trade spending principles and managing trade plans
• P&L management exposure
• Experience influencing leaders across the organization
• Involvement with customer annual planning process
• Experience with retailer practices
• Matrix management and project management experience

Number of Days in Office: 3

Relocation assistance is available for this position. Preference will be given to local candidates.

At this time, we require applicants for this role to be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring employer sponsorship either now or in the future.

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Compensation:

The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee's actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees' equity.Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.

Our Benefits:

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:

• Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement
• Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
• Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement
• Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities

Our Company:

At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions - within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye , Slim Jim and Reddi-Wip.

Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.