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Ancient Nutrition is rooted in our founders’ own personal health journeys and a desire to make history’s most powerful superfoods accessible to everyone. But what started as a mission to create high-quality supplements – ones informed by ancient wisdom, backed by modern science and that the world had never seen before – has grown into a steadfast commitment to transform the way we grow our food.

Because growing the world’s most nutrient-dense superfoods requires the healthiest soil possible and conventional farming is harming both the planet and its people. That’s why we’re on a much larger mission to restore our farmlands and heal our planet through organic regenerative farming practices that give back to the Earth – not just take from it– leaving it better than we found it for future generations to thrive.

The Forecast Planning and Analyst will work on the Strategy team, working closely with the VP of Strategy, the Sales Leadership team and Operations. The perfect candidate for this role will be someone who enjoys working in an agile and fast paced environment and doesn’t hesitate to jump into a new challenge!This role is responsible for the detailed sales forecast process ensuring all stakeholders are involved at key stages of the process. The role will work cross-functionally with various departments to improve forecast accuracy and planning. This person will also support the VP of Strategy on the full P&L and assist the department managers in updating their portions of the forecast. This role requires an individual with strong business acumen, strategic thinking skills and the ability to work in an agile, ever-changing environment. A strong attention to detail is also critical for this role.

Accountabilities

Work alongside the Director of Strategy, Sales Leadership, and Operations to manage and drive the sales forecasting process in an efficient and effective manner:

• Manage sales and trade forecasts across multiple channels
• Working with the sales leads to update and analyze forecast data at the SKU level based on consumption trends, promo cadence, product launches and retirements
• Analyzing trade spend and promotional activity at the strategic customer level to drive future planning and forecasting strategies
• Ensuring that best practices are used when doing the sales forecast and providing guidance to more junior sales team members in forecasting
• Act as a key liaison between sales and operations to ensure that the latest forecasted data is included in demand planning and providing exception reporting if there are forecasted any inventory issues
• Reviewing and socialize monthly reporting that analyzes variances to forecasts along with changes to future growth projections
• Build P&Ls for promotions, trade changes and future planning
• Work with department heads to update their sections of the forecast for expenses and capital spending on a quarterly basis and yearly for the annual budget and target development
• Work with IT to help develop the data warehouse that will be our source of data driving the sales forecast process along with other aspects of the overall forecasting down to gross margin
• Other projects relating to forecasting and business process improvements as required

Requirements

• 3+ years experience working with sales and operations teams in developing and maintaining detailed sales forecasts preferred
• Experience leading optimization/analysis with an agile way of working
• Experience working within a CPG environment highly preferred
• Knowledge of Tableau or other BI tools to present analysis results preferred
• Knowledge of Workday Adaptive Insights, Oracle or other forecasting tools preferred
• Knowledge of syndicated data preferred (Spins, Nielsen’s, etc)
• Intermediate or above use of excel
• Bachelor’s degree preferred

Core Attributes

• Expert communicator particularly at the leadership level to passionately persuade, influence, and drive change
• Team builder exceptional in leading and motivating teams with a proven history mentoring teams through organization and process change initiatives
• You are intellectually curious and are constantly challenging our own best practices (“There’s always a better way” mentality)
• You work well in a team environment
• You roll up your sleeves and dig in
• You are flexible. You understand that in a fast growing company things can change last minute
• You are a proactive self-starter who is eager to play a key role in growing a brand
• You are organized and detailed
• You have a can-do attitude and are an avid team player
• You are willing to push back and speak up when necessary

Core Values

• Run to win the race – do everything with excellence
• Committed to constant growth – refine and improve self and work daily
• Take ownership – take initiative
• Be a purpose driven leader/team player – be reliable and responsible
• Fight for one another and others – play as a team and works well with others

Benefits

Work is about what you do, not where you do it. Ancient Nutrition has many team members located near Nashville, TN but we are a fully remote company and are able to hire from across the US. Ancient Nutrition is a laid back, but fast-paced place to be. We work hard because we love what we’re building. No one breathes down your neck. We hire great people who don't need to be micromanaged.

We offer health insurance benefits, basic life insurance and access to affordable vision, dental and disability insurance and 401K matching. Unlimited Paid Time Off is a given for salary employees and a generous amount of paid time off accrual for hourly employees, both paid maternity and paternity leave are offered.

We are passionate about living healthy lives and offer free Ancient Nutrition products.

If you feel this role is meant for you, write us a killer cover letter telling us why you are the best fit, and why you want to work with us! We really do read them!

This position may be performed remotely within the United States where permitted by applicable law. At this time, we are not considering applicants residing in the following states: California, Colorado, New York, Washington, Oregon, New Jersey, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Maine, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, or Ohio.