
Operations & Analytics Manager
- Bentonville, AR
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Bachelor's degree preferred but not required
- 3–5+ years of experience in sales, forecasting, strategy, operations or analytics (CPG experience strongly preferred).
- Strong skills in Excel, BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.), and syndicated/POS data (Nielsen, IRI, Scintilla, Madrid).
- Proven ability to lead meetings and drive alignment across cross-functional teams and senior leadership.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with comfort presenting to leadership audiences.
- Strong organizational and process management capabilities.
- Lead the sales forecasting process on Walmart and Sam’s club, ensuring forecasts reflect sales inputs, promotions, and market trends.
- Serve as the operations lead for the Mars Walmart and Sam’s teams, managing meeting cadences, aligning local leadership, and ensuring consistent execution of sales processes.
- Deliver analytics, insights, and operational leadership that improve forecast accuracy, strengthen customer planning, and support sales team performance.
- Own the rolling customer-level forecast process for sales inside of algorithmic based Salesforce planning system.
- Integrate sales team inputs, POS data, promotions, and distribution updates into forecast recommendations.
- Track forecast accuracy, diagnose drivers of variance, and recommend adjustments.
- Lead sales operations meetings with local leadership, ensuring clear visibility of performance and priorities.
- Drive alignment across sales and supply chain through structured meeting cadences.
- Act as the process owner for sales forecasting and operations, ensuring consistency and accountability across teams.
- Provide data-driven insights on product performance and forecast accuracy.
- Develop dashboards, scorecards, and tools that enable sales teams to track and act on shipment and forecast data.
- Translate complex data into clear, actionable guidance for sales leadership and customer teams.
- Continuously improve forecasting methods, reporting processes, and meeting effectiveness.
- Champion adoption of advanced tools, syndicated data, and POS analytics to enhance sales planning.
- Train and support sales teams in applying forecast insights and operational best practices.
- Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.