Category Planning Analyst

At National Foods Limited, we are on a journey of growth and on building our most valuable assets which include our brands, financial strength, global presence, and our unbridled commitment to becoming a truly sustainable and a renowned company in the world.

JOB PURPOSE:

Support the revenue planning and trade execution cycle by validating demand outputs, managing trade expenditure, and enabling field teams with timely stock and target information to drive commercial efficiency and execution excellence.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Review and validate S&OP process output files against CDR session discussions, reconciling discrepancies and ensuring accuracy of demand signals before handoff to downstream planning and execution teams.
• Compile and validate the bottom-up planning file by cross-referencing inputs against CDR output files, ensuring alignment and reconciling discrepancies to produce an accurate and actionable demand baseline.
• Validate topline revenue, volumes, and tonnage across categories and SKUs to ensure accuracy and consistency of commercial plan outputs prior to execution.
• Validate and finalize warehouse stock splits against primary and secondary targets to ensure seamless inventory transition and uninterrupted supply flow across the distribution network.
• Develop and maintain primary and secondary target splits in alignment with AOP and budget parameters, ensuring equitable and commercially sound distribution of volume objectives across the cluster and field teams.
• Lead end-to-end visibility of primary stock availability within the value chain, proactively enabling field teams with timely and accurate stock information to eliminate supply gaps and sustain uninterrupted commercial execution.
• Develop and maintain annual and monthly trade offer files by translating approved budgets and allocations into structured, actionable trade investment plans aligned with commercial priorities and cycle objectives.
• Track and monitor Trade Expenditure against yearly and MTD budgets, providing timely and accurate spend analysis to support Revenue Planning Managers and Perfect Store Managers in informed commercial decision-making.
• Align monthly trade provisions with Finance, conducting rigorous YTD and MTD variance analysis and maintaining close liaison to ensure optimal utilization of trade spend within approved budgets and commercial guardrails.
• Coordinate and drive seasonal planning network meetings by allocating tasks across cross-functional teams, tracking progress, and following up to ensure timely and seamless execution of seasonal commercial plans.
• Partner with ABMs to ensure timely planning, deployment, and execution of consumer promotions across the cluster, tracking compliance and resolving bottlenecks to maximize promotional impact and sell-out.
• Own the end-to-end price increase process by validating timely implementation in SAP and Salesflo, ensuring Modern Trade compliance, and tracking adherence to safeguard commercial integrity and eliminate revenue leakage.

National Foods Limited provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, origin, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, marital status, status with regard to public assistance or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.