Marketing Co-Op: AI-Powered Forecasting Automation

Position Description: Marketing Co-Op: AI-Powered Forecasting Automation Department: Marketing Reports To: Marketing Director Location: Hybrid (Elmwood Park, NJ) or Remote Travel required: N/A *ABOUT THE COMPANY*

Dr. Praeger’s Sensible Foods® was founded in 1994 with the mission to create nutritious and convenient frozen food that tasted so delicious, it would make it easier to help people adopt better eating habits. While the world has changed since the business started, Dr. Praeger’s remains true to its founders’ vision. We’re grounded in using real, recognizable ingredients to make great-tasting products that families love.

We are passionate about food and fueled by our desire to make healthier living more delicious. Our mission is pioneering to increase veggie consumption by making it easy to choose crave-able, veggie-forward food. PROJECT OVERVIEW

As a growing CPG company, we're always looking for practical ways to work smarter and more efficiently and we're now turning to AI to help our teams spend less time wrangling data and more time acting on it. Today, several of our core forecasting models pull inputs from multiple disparate systems and spreadsheets, spanning retail, club, food service, and distribution channels. This requires significant manual effort to compile, align, and present. As AI tools have matured, we see an opportunity to automate this process, reducing manual data-manipulating so our teams can focus on analysis and decision-making instead of pulling and reconciling data. This co-op will drive that effort. Partnering closely with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Production, the co-op will map our current forecasting workflows and design an AI-supported process that consolidates disparate data sources into a single, repeatable model to create one that updates easily as new information comes in, with minimal manual intervention, and converts cleanly into a standardized PowerPoint output for rec