The Bimbo Bakeries USA Sales Co-Op program is a dynamic 5-months 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 Sales Technology 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 technology 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

Key Behavioral Competencies:

• Initiative-taker that also works well in a collaborative matrix team environment
• Ability to work independently and reach out to others in various roles as needed
• Remote work the majority of time with communication over online collaboration tools
• Ability to work in agile environments and embraces a continuous improvement / test & learn mindset
• Strong planning and organization, detail-oriented, and ability to lead project management
• Thought leader who is willing to offer ideas and solutions, not just take direction
• Some travel and time in customer and company locations may be required. Estimated 10% travel (costs covered by company)

Education and Work History:

• Pursuing Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business or a related field preferred
• Technical capabilities in manipulating data, managing the creation and modification of analytical tools, and other manipulation and data visualization tools may be preferred over specific other experience or education
• Knowledge and use of Excel, SQL, PowerBI, PowerApps Qlik or other similar systems is a plus

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Position Requirements:

The physical and mental demands described in each job posting are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of each job. Reasonable accommodations may be requested to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of each job.

Bimbo Bakeries USA is an equal opportunity employer with a policy that provides equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, any other classification protected by law.