Sr. Sales Analyst (based in CA, OH, AR, or MN)
- Salary
- $100K–$110KUSD
- Hiring from
- United States
- Work type
- Hybrid
- Posted
- Sep 25, 2026
The Role…
The Senior Sales Analyst (SSA) for the Retail Sales Activation Team (RSAT) is a data intensive role focused on continuous improvement of PNC retail performance. The SSA works closely with all members of the RSAT, members of the Retail Excellence Group (REG), and members of the Sales, Sales Strategy, RGM, Finance and Marketing teams.
The SSA will leverage data skills to report on, analyze, and develop insights related to retail merchandising including display activity, DSD distribution, sampling, resets, etc. Communicating findings and providing timely, relevant reporting is the critical deliverable for the role. The SSA will unlock company improvement leading to best-in-class performance over time. Trust earned from internal customers will be critical to the success of the person in this role,as internal clients will view the SSA as the “source of truth” for data analysis related to retail merchandising activity. The SSA will be involved in budget tracking and management.
The SSA role is a senior level analyst role leveraging data from third party syndicated sources (consumption and panel), retailer consumption data, and internal data. The SSA will generate insights that will shape future retail merchandising strategies and goals.
You’re excited about this opportunity because your time will be filled with…
Data analysis and reporting, leading to impactful insights (40%)
- Leverage multiple data sets to complete post event analysis of promotional events (display, sampling, resets, etc.)
- Provide trend analysis across multiple event types, retailers/channels and route-to-market (DSD, Warehouse)
- Develop impactful insights from post events and trend analysis work, suggesting strategic improvements
- Share findings with senior internal customers and cross-functional partners
- Provide ad hoc custom analysis supporting customer sales team needs
Supporting the development of strategic company platforms and events (30%)
- Provide required financial & volume input for PNC’s category vision, annual sales plan, annual planning, etc.
- Develop content as needed for the National Sales Meeting, customer meetings, and retail broker partner training seminars
- Participate and present as needed at internal and external events
Managing tracking tools that enable KPI management (30%)
- Track projected and actual performance vs. aligned KPI’s
- Track and report against actual display shipments vs. forecast
- Develop tools to track projected and actual spend vs. budgets
- Develop tools & dashboards to track business objectives (Store-level performance, Display sell-thru, Gap analysis of TDPs, etc.)
What are we looking for?
Education:
· Bachelor’s degree required in any field
Experience:
- +3 years of CPG sales and / or marketing experience or related work
- +2 years of analytical experience working with third party consumption and panel data (Circana, Nielsen)
- Experience developing reporting for senior CPG leadership
- Demonstrated understanding of common CPG retail performance metrics
Skills:
- Must be willing to travel 20% of the time
- Advanced MS Office skills, especially Excel
- Complex multi-data set analysis and integration
- Excellent written and presentation skills
- Develop fact-based recommendations
- Time management and workload prioritization skills
- Curious to find the root cause of results
- Logical usage of data
- Agile learner
- Self-motivator
- Keen listener
- You want to be an integral part of shaping an amazing work culture and being a culture-add
- You enjoy making people-centric decisions and finding ways to say ‘yes’ as often as possible to impactful and important priorities for the business or team
- You can be friendly, vulnerable, and self-deprecating in one moment, and deal with a challenging, delicate people-related matter as a professional in the next
- You can do periods of focused, deep work on projects that drive positive incremental business growth for the company
- You are comfortable being natural, casual, open, and even a bit playful at work
- …a lot of structure, rules, and uniformity
- …a lot of command-and-control management
- …a “big company” impersonal, cog-in-the-machine vibe—that ain’t us
- …workplaces where there isn’t much ambiguity
- …to resolve challenging interpersonal situations over instant messaging
- …hiding at home with your camera off, better yet, on mute, and demonstrating excellence through email
- …tend to chase whatever shiny object presents itself during the day even if non-strategic
- Quick 30 min phone chat with a high energy member of our Talent Acquisition team to do a quick overview of your background and answer any burning questions you have
- Team interviews are kept to a minimum to foster a more efficient, candidate-friendly process (too many interviewers yields little value and drags out the process for you—and who wants that, right?):
- A short series of in-person or video interviews in a 1:1 setting; these are usually with the hiring manager, one or two other team members, and a person from another team to get broader perspectives (note: we don’t do panel interviews because they don’t give interviewers a chance to ask you unique questions, and we assign interviewers different roles so we’re probing different capabilities)
- A case study or job task to simulate what you’d actually be doing in the role might be included (since your job is not actually to be interviewed for a living, why is that the thing companies rely on so much?) Yes, there will be a small panel for this one so you don’t have to do it more than once, and yes, they might ask you some kind yet probing questions at the end after the raucous applause stops.
- Once your interview concludes, the team will meet for an in-depth consultative process to ensure we are hiring the right person for the right job. Interviewers must come in with a strong yes or no vote beforehand to avoid groupthink with supporting reasons. The collective thoughts on your candidacy will be discussed in an environment of safety to challenge ideas respectfully, debate. and be open to all important qualifications of the candidates. A trained, disinterested bias blocker will be present to help mitigate bias so the team can make a sound hiring decision. The moment of truth arrives when the hiring manager makes the big decision. If you nailed the interviews and the case study was brilliant, guess what? The offer is all yours! And the ball is in your court. Will you accept? We sure hope so, because this place is the real deal, and don’t just believe us—just ask the 91% of our people who said this is a great place to work in our most recent employee survey.