Sr. Sales Analyst, Walmart (Pet)

Post Consumer Brands • Bentonville, AR

6h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Sr. Sales Analyst - Walmart, Pet turns point-of-sale, inventory, shipment, trade and financial data into clear recommendations that help grow our Walmart Pet Food business profitably. As the analytical lead and a close partner to Sales, you will strengthen forecasting, customer planning and business routines while helping the team move from insight to action. You will work across Sales, Omni-channel, Finance, Revenue Growth Management, Demand Planning, Supply Chain, Marketing and Category Management. This is a high-visibility role for someone who enjoys learning a business quickly, asking strong questions and building practical stories that support customer and internal decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, Economics, Analytics or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of progressive CPG experience in sales analytics, customer or trade marketing, customer management, category management, shopper insights, forecasting or a related discipline.
• Experience using data to build insights, forecasts, recommendations and business plans that influence commercial decisions.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong working knowledge of forecasting, trade investment, gross margin, pricing, deductions and return on investment.
• Ability to manipulate complex data, identify the business implication and recommend clear action.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting Walmart or another major grocery or club retail customer.
• Experience with Walmart Scintilla, Retail Link and Item 360.
• Experience with syndicated data sources such as Nielsen or Circana/IRI.
• Pet food or pet category experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly Walmart Pet forecast for base and incremental volume, aligning assumptions across Sales, Omni-channel, Finance, Demand Planning and Supply Chain.
• Monitor forecast accuracy and bias, explain customer and financial implications, and coordinate corrective actions.
• Build scenario models using historical trends, promotional lift, distribution, velocity, inventory and customer inputs to support demand and shipment decisions.
• Lead weekly, monthly, quarterly and event-based reporting, highlighting performance, risks, opportunities, decisions, owners and follow-through actions.
• Use Walmart Scintilla, Retail Link, Item 360, Nielsen, Circana/IRI, Spectra and other available sources to identify customer, category and brand growth opportunities.
• Create concise selling stories and customer-ready recommendations for line reviews, business reviews, joint planning and recurring Walmart meetings.
• Measure promotional lift and return on investment, complete post-event analyses and recommend shifts that improve growth and return.
• Maintain customer commitments, trade-spend visibility, planning inputs, item setup and item maintenance with accurate documentation and controls.
• Partner across Sales, Category Management, Finance, Revenue Growth Management, Demand Planning, Supply Chain and Marketing to move recommendations through execution.
• Build repeatable reports, tools and routines that improve the Walmart Pet team’s planning and analytical capabilities.

Benefits

• Hybrid schedule with three days per week in the Bentonville office.
• Travel up to 20% for customer meetings, store or field visits and cross-functional engagements.
• Salaried, exempt schedule aligned with customer and internal business needs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior