Sales Analyst Internship

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Employment Type: Intern or Other Job Types

Location: SAVAGE,MN

Have you ever enjoyed Arnold, Brownberry or Oroweat bread? A Thomas' English muffin or bagel? Or perhaps snacked on a Sara Lee, Entenmann's or Marinela cake or donut? If the answer is yes, then you know Bimbo Bakeries USA!

More than 20,000 associates in bakeries, sales centers, offices and on sales routes work to ensure our consumers have the freshest products at every meal. In addition to competitive pay and benefits, we provide a safe and inclusive work environment that appreciates diversity, promotes development and allows our associates to be their authentic selves.

Description:

Position Summary:

The Bimbo Bakeries USA Sales Internship program is a dynamic paid opportunity that affords students a remarkable experience to participate in fast-paced, real-world projects designed to further develop strategic project, management, analytical problem solving, and managerial leadership skills. Mentors will be designated to guide student collaborations and project work in each area. Students will be exposed to a variety of functional areas such as sales, distribution, and sales planning while earning college credits in various locations nationwide. The students will gain valuable experience and transferrable skills in the following areas:

• Confident, self-starter, who is also results-driven and demonstrates professionalism
• Serves in this business-critical role of Sales Analyst
• Supplies analytical support to the Customer Sales Team to understand the customer's performance and provide continuous optimization recommendations at both a brand and customer level
• Creates, formats, and understands reports of information to allow a more sustainable capability for informing associates across the organization of performance opportunities with market execution
• Provides input to the creation of, and measuring the elements of, business cases for new initiatives.
• Helps to manage and communicate to field teams performing pilots or beta tests of new capabilities.
• The ideal candidate has experience working with various customer or technical solution output datasets, distilling information, can answer the "so what" of the data, and then can pull it all together with storytelling that answers the "now what"

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Access relevant information, interpret results, draw conclusions, and forms recommendations about opportunities to improve sales plan performance
• Use data manipulation and analytical tools to define, build and deliver usable, graphical reports that help guide creation and deployment of applications based on patterns, behaviors or correlations determined by the inputs
• Works proactively in determining areas needing additional field training or communication of status to create content shared in weekly customer meetings and to distribute nationwide to local sales teams
• Builds and delivers post-program reporting of business case metrics to support new solutions coming to market
• Responsible to help run pilots and trials of new technology, developing and measuring KPI metrics to gauge success or propose modifications based on metric results.
• Present internally and to external business partners and vendors as needed
• Measure and build business case inputs from results of the reports and data availability for the sales teams to uncover the potential impacts of more automated, generalized approaches to the reporting
• Analyze input customer data as well as information for multiple systems to determine identification methods for data quality anomalies and indicators guiding data governance and the use of inputs for reporting, action or other system analysis.

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