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Your role at Clorox:
As a Customer Planning Manager at Clorox, you will play a pivotal role in driving Target customer team operations through effective forecasting, financial management, and sales analytics. You'll support the Burt's Bees Target Sales Team by managing the promotional planning process, assisting in Beauty and Health Department line reviews, planning customer growth summits, delivering insights through data analysis, and ensuring smooth execution of Clorox and customer-facing initiatives. This is a high-impact role requiring strong analytical thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and a deep understanding of Clorox systems and tools.
In this role, you will:
In this role, you will:
Financial & Promotional Planning:
Manage Trade Funds Checkbook and all tracking via Exceedra planning
Approve and submit customer contracts via TVI
Maintain in-line spend estimates and refute or reconcile post-audits
Analyze budgets to flag and understand over- or under-spends
Forecasting & Sales Analysis:
Drive accurate 18-month sales forecasting, incorporating driver inputs such as growth expectations, promotional events, and risk/opportunity assessments
Track performance vs. forecast, conduct root cause analyses, and identify gaps (e.g., promo misses)
Support Customer Team Lead on quarterly Customer Reviews to Brand
Track SBP (Supplier Business Planning) with Customer Team Lead input
Monitor and report on shipping, POS consumption trends, and inventory levels
Collaborate with Target Financial Planners and Inventory Analysts on special purchases with buy commits and in-season inventory management
Collaborate with Customer Service Supply Chain Manager on WIP reports, manage displays
Reporting & Tools:
Own standard reporting and ad hoc analytics using tools like Exceedra, IRIS, PowerBI, CoPilot, TPO, and High Radius
Use syndicated and customer-specific omni data to identify white space and growth opportunities (e.g., distribution voids, new items)
Mentor Senior Sales Analyst to assess ROI and performance metrics
Team & Customer Support:
Coordinate logistics for customer sales meetings
Serve as the go-to expert for enterprise tools and systems
Support Senior Sales Analyst through administrative and operational tasks to keep the team running efficiently, such as New Item Set-up and Display Tracking
LI- Hybrid
What we look for:
What we look for:
5+ years of CPG experience, Target experience preferred (systems knowledge: VIQ, POP, ICM)
Data & analytics experience at Senior Analyst level or above with proven success
Understanding of Customer P&L and factors to influence Topline and GM goals
General Clorox knowledge (how things work, who to go to, business rhythms)
Target / Retail fundamental knowledge and understanding of metrics, processes and timelines
Understanding Clorox business plans and creating customer goals
Leading peers and influencing internally.
Comfortable communicating via meetings and emails with Target PIM team (Planners & Inventory Analysts)
Partner closely with cross functional roles such as Sales Planing, Supply Chain, and Analysts
Proactive ownership of business, Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, removing barriers and obstacles, team player.
Experience working with forecasting and reporting tools (e.g., PowerBI, Exceedra, IRIS)
Advanced Excel skills and comfort with large datasets
Excellent communication and organizational skills with the ability to communicate drivers and complex variables in a succinct manner to senior leaders and Customer Merch partners
Thrives in fast paced environment and successfully manage multiple priorities
Workplace @type:
This role will be located at a Clorox Hub: Preference for Minneapolis, MN or Durham, NC. and will abide by the Hybrid 2.0 Policy, 3x per week in office.
Minimal travel required (likely 2-3 trips per year for onboarding an total team meetings)
Workplace @type:
Hybrid
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[U.S.]Additional Information:**
At Clorox, we champion people to be well and thrive, starting with our own people. To help make this possible, we offer comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates' unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company match, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location), inclusive fertility/adoption benefits, and more.
We are committed to fair and equitable pay and are transparent with current and future teammates about our full salary ranges. We use broad salary ranges that reflect the competitive market for similar jobs, provide sufficient opportunity for growth as you gain experience and expand responsibilities, while also allowing for differentiation based on performance. Based on the breadth of our ranges, most new hires will start at Clorox in the first half of the applicable range. Your starting pay will depend on job-related factors, including relevant skills, knowledge, experience and location. The applicable salary range for every role in the U.S. is based on your work location and is aligned to one of three zones according to the cost of labor in your area.
-Zone A: $106,700 - $204,900
-Zone B: $97,800 - $187,900
-Zone C: $88,900 - $170,800
All ranges are subject to change in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.
This job is also eligible for participation in Clorox's incentive plans, subject to the terms of the applicable plan documents and policies.
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We champion people to be well and thrive every single day. We're proud to be in every corner of homes, schools, and offices-making daily life simpler and easier through our beloved brands. Working with us, you'll join a team of passionate problem solvers and relentless innovators fueled by curiosity, growth, and progress. We relish taking on new, interesting challenges that allow our people to collaborate and thrive at work. And most importantly, we care about each other as multifaceted, whole humans. Join us as we reimagine what's possible and work with purpose to make a difference in the world.
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