At Yerba Madre, we're more than a beverage company—we're a movement inspired to help people Come to Life. Rooted in the sacred energy of yerba mate, a magical drink like no other, our products are designed to make you feel not just awake, but truly alive. Through a regenerative, circular business model—from sip to seed to shelf—we turn fans into agents of change who give back more than they take. By honoring yerba mate culture, strengthening communities, and restoring the Atlantic Forest, we create a positive impact on both people and planet.
As a company, our core values and fundamental beliefs are guided by these four principles that shape how our company operates:
- Alive with Energy: We bring vitality to everything we do
- Brave the Unknown: We lead with conviction and unafraid to disrupt
- Sacred Service: We lead with care and serve from the heart
- Resilient Roots: We grow stronger together a help others do the same
If this resonates with you, we invite you to Come to Life with us.
We're seeking a Commercial Planning Manager to serve as the analytical backbone of our sales organization. In this role, you will own the sales forecasting process, lead monthly performance reviews, and produce the executive-level materials that drive business decisions across the company. You'll partner closely with our field sales teams, finance, operations, marketing and leadership to turn data into clear narratives and growth opportunities.
This is a high-visibility role for someone who thrives at the intersection of analytics, storytelling, and cross-functional collaboration — and who is energized by the chance to help scale a mission-driven brand.
THIS ROLE IS A HYBRID POSITION, 3 DAYS A WEEK IN-OFFICE REQUIREMENT IN OUR OAKLAND, CA OFFICE.
Important Note: This role operates in a fast‑moving, imperfect data environment. Candidates coming from highly automated or routine analytics environments should be comfortable rolling up their sleeves, validating data, and building solutions from the ground up.
Commercial & Business Planning
- Lead the monthly business sales forecasting and review, quarterly and annual commercial planning processes, including volume, revenue, margin, and investment planning, in close partnership with Sales, Distribution, and Finance.
- Translate company and commercial strategies into executable plans by channel, customer, region, and distribution partner.
- Own commercial assumptions, scenario modeling, and sensitivity analyses to support strategic decisions and trade‑offs.
- Track key commercial KPIs (volume, revenue, distribution, velocity, share) and translate movement into actionable insight
- Prepare monthly performance reviews, board decks and executive readouts for senior leadership
Own ad‑hoc commercial analysis in support of high‑impact business decisions (pricing, trade, distribution, SKU expansion)
- Support long‑range planning and growth initiatives with data‑driven recommendations.
- Develop and maintain accurate sales and volume forecasts, partnering with Sales and FP&A to align targets and assumptions.
- Monitor performance against plan, identifying risks and opportunities, and proactively recommending corrective actions.
- Lead monthly and quarterly business reviews (MBRs/QBRs), including preparation of executive‑level materials and insights.
- Establish and track key commercial KPIs, ensuring consistent measurement across the organization.
- Balance structured monthly reporting with unplanned, urgent analytical requests
- Partner closely with Sales, Distribution, Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain to ensure plans are aligned, achievable, and well‑executed.
Partner closely with Sales to challenge forecasts, surface risks, and pressure‑test assumptions
Translate incomplete or conflicting inputs into clear recommendations for Sales and Leadership
- Act as a key point of integration between strategic planning and field execution.
- Support launch planning for new products, channels, and initiatives from a commercial readiness perspective.
- Influence without authority, aligning stakeholders around facts, trade‑offs, and outcomes.
- Improve and standardize commercial planning processes, tools, and templates.
- Drive best practices in planning cadence, governance, and documentation.
- Identify opportunities to enhance systems, reporting, and automation to scale the commercial organization.
- Support development of planning and analytical capabilities within the broader commercial team.
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Economics, Finance, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in commercial planning, sales strategy, FP&A, revenue operations, or category management — CPG or beverage experience strongly preferred
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; comfort with large datasets and forecasting methodologies
- Ability to interpret complex data sets to identify trends and inform decision-making.
- Strong PowerPoint and storytelling skills, with proven ability to communicate to executive audiences
- Experience working with syndicated data (Nielsen, IRI, Circana, SPINS) and sales reporting tools is a plus
- Familiarity with planning systems (Anaplan, NetSuite, Power BI, Tableau, or similar) a plus
- Strong analytical skills to identify root causes of issues and develop effective solutions.
- Experience with Microsoft Office, including fluency with Excel Pivot Tables, and function formulas
- Demonstrated analytical and organizational skills
- Proficiency in English. Fluency in Portuguese or Spanish a plus
This role is best suited for someone who:
- Enjoys ambiguous, fast‑changing work where priorities shift week to week
- Is comfortable working with imperfect, evolving data and digging into issues rather than waiting for clean inputs
- Prefers being a hands‑on problem solver rather than a purely strategic or project‑management role
- Feels confident challenging assumptions and influencing sales leaders using data
- Is energized by building structure where none exists yet
Travel
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear
- Employee is frequently required to walk (industrial facility and rural/forest areas), climb stairs, and sit
- Exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions
- Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to high
- Commercial vehicle operations
Yerba Madre—formerly Guayakí Yerba Mate—is the nearly 30-year pioneer of regenerative yerba mate [yer-bah ma-tay] and the category leader in ready-to-drink mate beverages across North America. The name Yerba Madre, meaning "Mother Herb," is a tribute to Mother Earth and the ancestral wisdom of the Indigenous communities who have cultivated yerba mate for generations —a reflection of the values the brand has championed since day one.
Headquartered in Oakland and Los Angeles, California, Yerba Madre sources organic, shade-grown yerba mate in direct partnership with 255 family farmers and Indigenous communities across Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. Using its Market Driven Regeneration™ model, every purchase helps reforest the Atlantic Forest, support fair trade premiums, and build long-term economic resilience for grower communities.
In 2025, the brand became the world's first yerba mate to achieve Regenerative Organic Certified™ Gold® status——setting a new global standard for ecological integrity, cultural respect, and environmental restoration.
As an original founding member of the B Corp community and a founding member of the Purpose Pledge, Yerba Madre is committed to ethical business practices across ten key pillars, including climate positivity, living wages, circularity, and inclusion. Yerba Madre is available in over 45,000 retail locations across the U.S. and Canada. To learn more, visit www.YerbaMadre.com.
