Strategic Business Planner (Consumer-Packaged Goods)

Role Description & Responsibilities

Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, provides business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Our world-leading solutions transform the way products are designed, produced and supported. Dassault Systèmes’ collaborative solutions foster social innovation, expanding possibilities for the virtual world to improve the real world. The group brings value to over 300,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 140 countries. 

The Strategic Business Planner (SBP) serves an integral role in shaping the strategic plan to hit financial targets and grow market share.  The SBP accomplishes this mission collaboratively with several stakeholders and team members, such as Sales Leaders, Sales Professionals, Market Intelligence, and Finance.  This role requires a deep understanding of market trends, customer needs, and competitive dynamics. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in B2B sales, marketing, and strategic planning.  Enterprise software experience, especially Engineering and Manufacturing software, is not required, but very useful.  This is a great role for someone looking for a challenging position to career path into Sales, Sales Leadership, Marketing, Business Development, or Product Management. 

This SBP covers the Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) vertical across all sales distribution channels, as well as the Home & Lifestyle Industry, which includes Furniture, Leisure Goods, Clothing, and more.  In collaboration with Sales, the SBP analyzes the complete territory and external market to define financial objectives and go-to-market (GTM) strategies to achieve the objectives.  The territory covers everything from large enterprise accounts to startups and new entrants.  The role will work with supporting organizations to ensure GTM strategies are ready to launch into the targeted accounts and channels, measure and monitor the success of the GTM strategies, pivot and adapt when needed, and report on financial results and milestones. 

• In collaboration with Sales, develop and create GTM plans for the territory capable of meeting and exceeding the annual and long-range sales objectives
• Support strategy definition and execution through analysis including macro-economic data and trends, market analysis, competitor analysis, and specific account situations coming from the account teams
• Proactively capture market events and trends and propose new strategies and share recommendations with Sales Director and Sales Professionals
• Monitor and analyze competitor activities and market positioning
• Work closely with the sales team to provide specific insights, training, and support
• Ensure Sales partners have compelling materials and enablement to support the GTM strategies and create sales pipeline by collaborating with the internal ecosystem
• Plan targeted marketing campaigns to drive awareness and demand within territories and monitor results
• Assess ecosystem capacity to hit financial targets
• Assess and analyze success of GTM strategy based on revenue attainment and pipeline, and propose pivots and new initiatives when needed
• Analyze customer feedback to inform new GTM strategies and tactics
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% required
• In person preferred, but remote may be available for candidates not located near a 3DS office