Now Hiring - Premier Nutrition - Professional Services Sales Analyst (based in Toronto, Canada) in Emeryville, CA

The Role

• IRI/Nielsen/Numerator / Retail Link reporting and analysis to provide insights.
• View Premier Nutrition from a portfolio perspective as well as a customer perspective to drive strategic areas of focus to drive the business.
• Collaborate with HQ Insights Team for macro level insights and that can apply at a customer level
• Provide newsworthy category and consumer trend data for customer updates.
• Prepare reports, presentations and/or manuals for various meetings.
• Manage the new item setup process and track and analyze new item introductions.
• Leverage research tools / analysis to create actionable insights that deliver against
  retail opportunities, distribution, assortment, category, and customer trends
• Create tools to help understand trend and consumption within total category
  (PNC and competition)
• Maintain price value audits for customer reporting and internal channel management.

Business Reviews: 25% of Time

• Collaboration with the Customer leads and Director to build data driven Business Reviews
• Analysis and insights on overall PNC portfolio
• Collaborate with Sales Planning/ Category Management team, to help develop customer specific category selling stories.

• Aligning with Director of Sales on Special Projects driven by Premier Nutrition objectives

• Bachelors degree or equivilent experience

• Min 3+ yrs. of relevant experience within Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) industry
• Experience with Costco / WM /Food & Drug channel accounts

• Strong PowerPoint, Excel, IRI, Nielsen skills
• Strong navigational skills within customer portals
• Understanding of Syndicated data and familiarity with the tools
• Ability to develop strong cross-functional relationships both internally and externally
• Independent, self-driven individual with the ability to build vs. manage
• Creative with a desire for continuous improvement

Select 5 Key Capabilities & Traits Important to Add to and Diversify your Current Team:

• Drive and own results
• Learning & growth mindset
• Start & end with consumer
• Play to Win
• Creativity, exploration, & innovativeness

You will thrive here and may just do the best work of your life if

• You want to be an integral part of shaping and nurturing an amazing work culture
• You like trying out novel minimum viable product people-related ideas
• You can be flexible in your approach to people challenges and abandon past practices if they dont make sense or would lead to a poor outcome
• You enjoy making people-centric decisions and finding ways to say yes as often as possible to impactful and important priorities for the business or team
• You are comfortable being natural, casual, open, and even a bit playful at work
• You can be friendly, vulnerable, and self-deprecating in one moment, and deal with a challenging, delicate people-related matter as a professional in the next
• You can do periods of focused, deep work on projects that drive the needle

This may not be your ideal next career move if

• You like order, hierarchy, command and control management.
• Dealing with ambiguity or experimentation are not your jam
• You try to resolve challenging interpersonal situations over email or instant messaging
• You like managing from behind your computer and demonstrating excellence through email
• You tend to chase whatever shiny object presents itself during the day even if non-strategic

If we havent convinced you to apply already, here are some of our favorite perks and benefits:

• 5% RRSP match. Literally free money
• Flexible work environment
• All jobs are bonus-eligible.
• 2 weeks of work from anywhere time to move your Big Rocks
• Quarterly team building events/happy hours (city-wide scavenger hunt, bowling, ropes course, putt-putt)
• This is an Employer of Record employment agreement with the hiring partner Remote

• Quick 30 min phone chat with a high energy member of our Talent Acquisition team to do a quick overview of your background and answer any burning questions you have
• Team interviews are kept to a minimum to foster a more efficient, candidate-friendly process (too many interviewers yields little value and drags out the process for youand who wants that, right?):
• A short series of in-person or video interviews in a 1:1 setting; these are usually with the hiring manager, one or two other team members, and a person from another team to get broader perspectives (note: we dont do panel interviews because they dont give interviewers a chance to ask you unique questions, and we assign interviewers different roles so were probing different capabilities)
• A case study or job task to simulate what youd actually be doing in the role (since your job is not actually to be interviewed for a living, why is that the thing companies rely on so much?) Yes, there will be a small panel for this one so you dont have to do it more than once, and yes, they might ask you some kind yet probing questions at the end after the raucous applause stops.
• Once your interview concludes, the team will meet for an in-depth consultative process to ensure we are hiring the right person for the right job.
  • Interviewers must come in with a strong yes or no vote beforehand to avoid groupthink with supporting reasons.
  • The collective thoughts on your candidacy will be discussed in an environment of safety to challenge ideas respectfully, debate and be open to all important qualifications of the candidates.
  • A trained, disinterested bias blocker will be present to help mitigate bias so the team can make a sound hiring decision.
  • The moment of truth arrives when the hiring manager makes the big decision. If you nailed the interviews and the case study was brilliant, guess what? The offer is all yours! And the ball is in your court.
  • Will you accept? We sure hope so because this place is the real deal, and dont just believe usjust ask the 93% of our people who said this is a great place to work in our most recent employee survey.