Commercial Planning Specialist

What You Need To Know

Shape a remarkable future with us. Build a career working for an industry leader that truly invests in their people – and equips them with leading technology, continuous learning, and the ability to bring their best selves to work. As North America's largest total beverage distributor, Southern Glazer’s isn't just one of Forbes’ Top Private Companies; it's a family-owned business with deep roots dating back to 1933.

Southern Glazer’s is proud of its well-earned positive reputation, continually achieving accolades for our outstanding workplace culture. We take pride in creating a culture where our people are valued, supported, and provided opportunities for growth and belonging.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a wide-ranging menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition assistance, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

By joining Southern Glazer’s, you would be part of a team that values excellence, innovation, and community. This is more than just a job – it's an opportunity to build the future of beverage distribution and grow with a company that truly cares about its people.

Overview

The Commercial Planning Effectiveness Specialist supports the Corporate Commercial Planning Team and Commercial Organization through project and content coordination, annual planning calendar management, communications, and follow-through. The position requires expertise in Commercial Planning applications and associated business processes. The role keeps fiscal-start cycles and assigned initiatives organized and visible, maintains workplans and shared content libraries, tracks issues with Commercial Planning tools, and coordinates approved communications. This individual identifies opportunities to improve the end-user experience through technology and process improvements and supports current and future corporate Commercial Planning projects.

Primary Responsibilities

• Maintain a central issue log for Commercial Planning tools, documenting affected users, business impact, accountable owners, next steps, target dates, escalations, and resolution status. Identify duplicate reports, track issues through the established support process, and confirm resolution before closing items

• Communicate clearly and regularly with end users until issues are resolved

• Own the communications calendar and maintain distribution lists. Draft, format, proofread, and route mass communications for approval

• Improve repeatable coordination processes through practical templates, checklists, and handoff standards. Recommend ways to reduce missed steps and manual follow-up, partnering with the team on implementation

• Organize shared content and reference libraries, maintain reusable templates and naming conventions, and control versions so stakeholders can readily find current approved materials

• Coordinate content development with accountable authors and SMEs; track review, approval, and publication schedules, follow up on inputs, and publish approved materials

• Support end-user education and training to increase proficiency and adoption of implemented solutions

• Assist with change management efforts to drive adoption of new tools, processes, and governance

• Maintain an integrated Commercial Planning calendar and repeatable checklists across fiscal-start cohorts

• Coordinate project meetings, readiness checks, and stakeholder handoffs; follow up on outstanding actions and deliverables. Identify conflicting timelines, missing inputs, and delivery risks, and escalate blockers or scope and priority decisions to Commercial Planning leadership

• Maintain project and action trackers and prepare concise status updates showing milestone progress, overdue deliverables, dependencies, risks, and decisions needed. Record approved decisions; analytical deliverables remain with the assigned Analyst or other accountable owner

• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Additional Primary Responsibilities

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required (Business Administration, Communication, or other industry-related curricula)

• 3-5 years of work experience, including relevant business and support experience

• Prior experience with supporting applications and development of training activities is a plus

Physical Demands

• Physical demands with activity or condition for a considerable amount of time may include sitting and typing/keyboarding using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor) or mobile device

• Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping

• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.

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Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.