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Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.

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Why work for Dawn Foods?

PEOPLE.    PRODUCTS.   CUSTOMERS.

Why should you apply? We invest in you!

• Industry-leading health insurance on Day 1!
• Competitive Pay
• 401(K) + company match
• 10 Paid Company Holidays
• Paid Time Off
• Professional training
• Family-owned business over 100 years in service
• An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce.

Sales Analyst II Purpose and Overview

This Team Member will be primarily responsible for supporting the Sales teams to drive Dawn’s Sales Operations initiatives. This position will support national initiatives while supporting adoption for Key and/or Market sales teams. Focus areas to support are:

• Sales Technology adoption of CRM and online ordering
• Development/maintenance of sales and margin metric reporting
• Development/maintenance of various Salesforce-generated reports, and any other general reporting requests submitted by the sales teams
• Preparation of monthly/quarterly state of business presentations for Key and Market Sales Team Members, including Senior Management

This Team Member will be responsible for building and leveraging a strong network with all relevant cross-functional teams to support Team Dawn. In this role, the Sales Analyst will collaborate with Sales leadership to ensure adequate data and analysis are provided to help meet sales and profitability goals.

Work Environment: This position is Hybrid, based in Jackson, Michigan. To qualify for this position, candidates must be based in or around the Jackson, MI area. We are specifically seeking applicants who reside in close proximity to Jackson, MI to ensure accessibility and convenience for regular attendance and participation in on-site activities

What will you do as a Sales Analyst II at Dawn Foods? 

Sales Analytics / Planning

• Development and implementation of planning tools and processes.
• Report and Presentation Development/Training: Assists in developing periodic reporting to provide to sales teams, as well as coaching teams on how to interpret that reporting and take necessary actions (i.e., Customer Database, Customer Channels, Categories)
• Manage the Customer process, filtering and distributing customer leads, maintaining optimum customer visit frequency and duration.
• Support the annual budget process.  This includes preparation of annual territory budget worksheets, training the sales team on processes, and tracking of report actuals vs. budget monthly.
• Assists with Sales Territory re-alignments and adjustment/maintenance of sales team targets.
• Provides data gathering and ad-hoc analysis as needed for everyday business, as well as special projects.

Relationship Building & Dawn’s Core Values

• Responds to sales team questions in a professional, courteous manner.
• Resolves technical issues and troubleshoots questions.
• Develop and maintain relationships with the sales team to support Sales Operations Initiatives, as directed by our sales organization.
• Demonstrates the “Dawn Values” of Team Dawn and supports the Dawn Circle of Excellence.
• Will perform other related duties as assigned or requested.

What Does It Take to be a Sales Analyst II at Dawn Foods?  

Below are the minimum qualifications to be a fit for this job.   

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred with emphasis on Business Administration with a concentration in Finance, Marketing, Accounting, Management, or Economics/Statistics, or 5-7 years of relevant experience in lieu of degree.
• At least 2-5 years of experience gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data.
• Must have a keen understanding of the product sales process.
• Must have excellent technical, communications, and computer skills.
• Must have proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Microsoft Excel.
• Must have CRM experience, preferably Salesforce.

Physical Demands & Work Environment 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. 

• Required to use motor coordination with arm, hand, finger, and leg dexterity.
• Required to exert physical effort in handling objects 25 pounds. 
• The normal setting for this job is hybrid in an office environment.

Note: The level of physical effort may vary from site to site and in some cases be greater or lesser than documented here. Note: The level of physical effort may vary from site to site and in some cases be greater or lesser than documented here. 

If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click "Apply.” 

About Our Benefits 

Dawn is proud to employ the top talent in the baking industry, and we reward our people with comprehensive health and well-being coverage, competitive compensation packages, and award-winning benefit offerings. We also help protect your future financial health with a generous 401(k) matching program that provides additional retirement funds and many tools and resources on financial wellness. Dawn encourages professional growth through tuition assistance and educational programs, and we are always searching for ways to improve our industry-leading services and benefits. 

Compensation

$65,380 - $100,690 with bonus potential 

#LI-Hybrid #LI-AH1

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An Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other status or condition that is protected by applicable law.

Requisition ID: 36319