ROW Sales Planner

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The Sales Planner supports the Country Manager and wider Sales team by coordinating customer and sales inputs, tracking commercial performance and preparing analysis to support decision making.

Working closely with Account Managers, Sales Managers and the Planning & Commercial Insights Manager, the role helps ensure regional plans, forecasts and reporting are accurate, timely and aligned to global planning standards.

The role acts as the coordination point between Sales, Planning and Finance, supporting planning processes through robust reporting, scenario analysis and governance, whilst ensuring customer and commercial inputs are accurately represented within the broader planning cycle.

You'll be;

Sales Planning & Coordination:

• Consolidating customer, account manager and regional sales inputs into a single regional sales file.

• Supporting the preparation of sales plans, forecasts and forecast submissions.

• Ensuring all planning assumptions, risks and opportunities are documented and maintained.

• Coordinating inputs for planning and commercial review meetings.

• Tracking customer commitments and communicate changes to relevant stakeholders.

Performance Reporting:

• Producing weekly and monthly sales reporting.

• Monitoring sales performance versus forecast, budget and prior year.

• Highlighting risks, opportunities and significant variances.

• Preparing analysis by customer, product category and channel.

• Maintaining reporting accuracy and data quality.

Commercial Support:

• Supporting Account Managers and Sales Managers with customer performance analysis.

• Preparing customer planning packs and supporting reports.

• Assisting with scenario modelling and commercial analysis.

• Providing visibility of stock availability, customer commitments and sales trends.

Planning Governance:

• Coordinating regional submissions into planning processes.

• Ensuring deadlines, templates and reporting standards are followed.

• Maintaining planning trackers, action logs and decision records.

• Acting as a liaison between Sales, Finance and Planning teams.

Planning Process & Governance:

• Supporting the Planning & Commercial Insights Manager in embedding standardised planning and reporting processes across regions.

• Ensuring regional reporting and submissions are completed in line with agreed planning governance and timelines.

• Maintaining planning templates, trackers and reporting tools.

• Supporting continuous improvement initiatives relating to reporting, planning accuracy and data quality.

• Acting as the regional point of contact for planning process adoption and compliance.

You'll have;

Essential:

• 2-4 years' experience in Sales Analysis, Commercial Analysis, Sales Planning, Merchandising or a similar analytical role.

• Strong analytical and numerical skills with the ability to interpret data and identify actionable insights.

• Advanced Excel skills, including data manipulation, reporting and forecasting.

• Experience producing sales, forecast and performance reporting.

• Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail and accuracy.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively across teams.

• Commercially aware, proactive and solutions-oriented approach.

• Confident challenging assumptions and using data to support decision making.

Desirable:

• Experience within wholesale, retail, consumer goods or a branded business.

• Exposure to planning, forecasting, budgeting or sales operations processes.

• Experience using Power BI, Dynamics 365, SAP or similar ERP/reporting platforms.

• Understanding demand planning, inventory planning or S&OP processes.

• Experience building dashboards, reports and scenario analysis.

• Continuous improvement mindset with an interest in planning, analytics and commercial operations.