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Sales Planning Analyst
The Opportunity
From athletes to remote workers, people around the world want to eat well and live healthier, more active lives. Our award-winning performance and lifestyle brands inspire our customers to achieve their performance and healthy lifestyle goals. Whether you want to build muscle, reach peak performance, eat more protein-rich foods, or lose weight, we have a product to match. Glanbia Performance Nutrition brands include Optimum Nutrition, Isopure, BSN, think!, and Amazing Grass.
The Sales Planning Analyst – Amazon supports the end-to-end revenue management and sales planning process for the Amazon business. This role is responsible for maintaining accurate forecasts, executing core planning activities, and providing clear, data-driven insights that help the Amazon team deliver its revenue and profitability goals. The analyst manages inputs in the trade management planning system, supports promotional and financial planning, consolidates reporting, and collaborates closely with cross-functional partners including Finance, RGM, Demand Planning, and Connected Commerce. This position plays a key role in improving forecast accuracy, strengthening planning processes, and enabling visibility into business performance.
What You’ll Do
- Maintain accurate revenue, trade, and consumption forecasts for the Amazon business.
- Prepare monthly and weekly forecast updates and assist with variance explanations.
- Ensure data integrity across planning templates, systems, and reporting tools.
- Enter, update, and validate trade and promotional plans in the trade management planning system.
- Ensure promotional events, rates, and assumptions are accurately captured.
- Troubleshoot system issues and support continuous improvement of tool usage.
- Compile inputs to create monthly business roll-ups, dashboards, and performance summaries.
- Monitor trends in revenue, consumption, profitability, and trade spend.
- Provide concise insights that highlight risks, opportunities, and performance drivers.
- Analyze historical performance of promotions, pricing, and marketing activities.
- Support post-event analysis to identify efficiency, ROI, and areas for improvement.
- Identify gaps or inefficiencies in forecasting, reporting, or system usage.
- Help refine tools, templates, and processes to improve accuracy and speed.
- Support documentation of SOPs and best practices for the Amazon planning process.
- Work closely with Finance, RGM, Demand Planning, and Connected Commerce to ensure alignment.
- Support integrated planning processes and help prepare materials for cross-functional meetings.
- Share data, reports, and insights to enable informed decision-making.
The Skills you will bring to the team
- 1–3 years of CPG experience in Finance, Sales Planning, Trade/TPM, Revenue Growth Management, Demand Planning, or another quantitative commercial role.
- Experience supporting business planning for Amazon or other large omni/eCommerce customers, with familiarity with promotional mechanics and key performance drivers (preferred).
- Experience with trade management systems (e.g., SAP Trade Management, BluePlanner, Exceedra/AFS, Vividly, Modus).
- Experience with SAP or similar ERP systems (preferred).
- Exposure to forecasting, revenue planning, promotional planning, or financial outlook cycles.
- Hands‑on experience analyzing, validating, and manipulating data in Excel, BI tools, or planning templates.
- Strong Excel proficiency (modeling, pivots, lookups, data manipulation).
- Ability to analyze large datasets, identify trends, and draw actionable insights.
- Effective communicator capable of synthesizing financial and analytical findings into concise narratives that support alignment across Finance, Sales, RGM, and Demand Planning.
- Exceptional attention to detail and a commitment to delivering precise, reliable data that supports confident decision-making.
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines within structured monthly/weekly planning cycles.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Data Analytics, or related field.
What we would like to offer you!
The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary, 401K. Apply now and make a difference in the world of health and wellness! Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles; the salary range for this role is $65,000-80,000 plus an annual bonus. This range may not be applicable to other locations and targeted salary is midpoint of range. Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role. Glanbia has a unique portfolio of better nutrition brands and ingredients, addressing growing consumer demand in major health and nutrition categories. We play into the growing market trends of active lifestyles and, health and wellness.
At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a wide variety of candidates, and we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
At Glanbia, our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.
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