Commercial Planning Manager - Bellevue, WA_

Bellevue

**What You Need To Know**

Open your future to incredible career potential. Work for an industry-leader who invests in their people. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with roots that go back to 1933. We were named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

Southern Glazer’s offers a competitive compensation package with an expected first year total earnings between $87,000 - $120,000 / year plus bonus. This salary range is an average range for this position. In determining a final offer, the company will evaluate a specific candidate's education, skills and experience and will make an offer appropriately.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

At Southern Glazer’s, you’ll enjoy an environment where continuous learning and growth are supported and experience a culture where you are respected, and your voice is heard. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

**Overview**

The Manager, Commercial Planning works closely with Sales, Trade Development, Site Leadership, and Finance to improve predictability and visibility of the plan and “owns” the Commercial Sales Planning process for the market, interacts with the Corporate and Region Commercial Planning team for participation and execution of enhancements to commercial planning and its governing standards, serves as the local subject matter expert, and identifies opportunities for improvement in current processes and execution.

**Primary Responsibilities**

+ Develop the roadmap to instill the discipline and cultural change needed to embed commercial planning as a key enabler for the market. Scope to include SGWS AOP, supplier annual planning, sales & finance LEs, etc.

+ Lead the implementation of processes, systems, and organizational development to build a robust sales and financial plan

+ Lead the development, roll-up, and communication of the site commercial plan by balancing interests of multiple sales divisions and functional teams.

+ Integrate Product Lifecycle Management, business strategy plans, and financial projections into the commercial planning process

+ Analyze key metrics to identify and close gaps in processes or capabilities related to commercial planning

+ Facilitate commercial meetings as needed to ensure all parties are aligned and all key issues and opportunities are addressed

**Additional Primary Responsibilities**

+ Incorporate benchmarking and leverage best practices with other sites to further shape and improve commercial planning processes

+ Analyze operational practices of key chain accounts (where applicable) in order to improve the accuracy of sales and financial plan

+ Educate and advise teams on short-term sales commits processes, mid-term sales planning management, longer-term AOP, and multi-year commercial sales and financial planning

+ Ensure process standardization where applicable through all reporting divisions within the state

+ Provide regional ongoing support to users for commercial sales planning tools

+ Trains all stakeholders on commercial sales planning processes

+ Perform other job-related duties as assigned

**Minimum Qualifications**

+ Bachelor’s degree in related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience

+ 5 years of relevant experience

+ Strong experience in commercial business planning, program management, and other relevant cross-functional processes required.

+ Deep understanding of end to end business process from planning through execution

**Physical Demands**

+ Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine

+ Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting and stooping

+ May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

**EEO Statement**

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.