Benefits:
Health insurance
Our client, a leading chemical distributor, is in search for a talented Sales Planner to join their team in Houston, TX. This role is a 6 month contract to hire opportunity and is based in Houston, TX 77056.
This role presents an exciting opportunity to collaborate with a dynamic sales team and contribute to the growth and success of the organization as a whole. As a Sales Planner, you'll play a key role in optimizing sales activities, analyzing market trends, and developing sales forecasts to drive revenue growth.
Key Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with business accounts & internal stakeholders to create a seasonal/yearly forecast for both sales and receipts for customer accounts.
• Collaborate and communicate with sales leaders, customers, and internal and external suppliers to manage customer expectations and to achieve customer satisfaction.
• Lead monthly business meetings to review performance vs. forecast, point of sale trends and provide recommended actions.
• Analyze and track weekly sell thru and inventory/in-transit-inventory data to understand trends and opportunities, partnering with the business development manager and/or product line managers to present opportunities to drive actual and potential sales.
• Analyze historical performance and recent market trends to provide recommendations to accounts for proper changes in sales volumes and/or sales pricing.
• Partner with Demand Planning to incorporate account forecasts into a regional demand program.
• Collaborate with business development manager and/or sales leaders on creation and communication of sales administration documentation, and to perform all related clerical activities.
• Use of SAP or Oracle systems to generate sales orders and purchasing requirements (and/or purchasing orders).
• Use of Salesforce platform to keep sales process information updated and to generate quotations.
• Coordinate new item registration process across all systems to ensure data integrity and accurate records, and processing customer orders in and initiating orders for stock.
• Aligning all systems when order changes occur.
• Coordinating with internal and external customers to resolve order discrepancies.
We look forward to connecting with you and discussing this exciting opportunity further!
VEVRAA Federal Contractor - priority referral of Protected Veterans requested. An Equal Opportunity Employer - Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or other characteristics protected by law.