Bolthouse Farms is a global leader in carrot production. We farm approximately 30,000 acres of carrots every year, which accounts for nearly half of all carrots consumed in the United States and Canada. We are also the North America leader in super-premium refrigerated juices, smoothies and protein drinks.
Bolthouse Farms was founded in 1915 and is headquartered in Bakersfield, CA. In 2003, we introduced a vast selection of natural fruit juices and smoothies. In 2007, we introduced a variety of natural yogurt based salad dressings. Bolthouse Farms has an innovative team who are gearing up for several new product launches in the next few years adding to the growth of the company. Bolthouse Farms has operations in California, Washington, Illinois, and Georgia. In addition, Bolthouse has a processing facility in Belem, Brazil.
Additional company and product information can be found on the company’s website at: www.bolthouse.com.
This position, reporting directly to the VP of Financial Planning and Analysis is for a driven self-starter who desires to apply their energy, talent, and education in a team-oriented growth company that is expanding its analytical capabilities. The Sales Finance Analyst acts as an important support arm to the retail sales teams to forecast and evaluate performance against a variety of benchmarks. The position will help guide the decision making process for key selling and strategic initiatives, reporting, planning and optimizing top line performance
Duties & Responsibilities
· Leverage multiple information platforms and analytical tools to identify and address a variety of critical issues including those related to spending efficiency, mix analysis, pricing strategy, and customer contract bids
· Provide analytical pricing tools to support building the annual plan and intra-year forecasts
· Collaborate with Marketing to draw conclusions, make recommendations, and develop presentations for meetings with retailers
· Manage marketplace testing and analysis including trade promotion, demo effectiveness, and other program effectiveness
· Develop pricing, and trade- spend analysis to support profitable category growth.
· Create standardization of reporting on key metrics
· Maintain fluid and open communication between sales, operations and other key highly interdependent functional areas
· Provide monthly analysis on customer trade spend effectiveness and rolling forecasts based on specific programs and events
· Support sales team with all analytical projects as needed
· Key functional areas of interface include: Sales, Marketing and Finance
