Glanbia is a company focused on promoting healthier lifestyles through its performance and lifestyle brands. The Sales Planning Analyst will support revenue management and sales planning for the Amazon business, ensuring accurate forecasts and providing data-driven insights to achieve revenue and profitability goals.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- Experience with trade management systems (e.g., SAP Trade Management, BluePlanner, Exceedra/AFS, Vividly, Modus)
- 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
- Experience supporting business planning for Amazon or other large omni/eCommerce customers, with familiarity with promotional mechanics and key performance drivers
- Experience with SAP or similar ERP systems
Benefits
- Staff discounts
- Generous family leave policy
- Health & dental plan
- Competitive salary
- 401K
Company Overview
Glanbia is a global nutrition company focused on dairy and performance nutrition products. It was founded in 1964, and is headquartered in Kilkenny, Kilkenny, IRL, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is http://www.glanbia.com/.