Category Analyst

Keurig Dr Pepper•Frisco, TX

12d•$62,500 - $82,900•Onsite

About The Position

Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) is looking for a highly motivated, analytically minded professional to join its Center of Excellence (COE) Category Management team. This individual will have high visibility to leadership supporting areas of the business. The Category Analyst plays a valuable role by assisting in providing consultative category guidance to deliver market leading growth across KDP Brands and Retail Partners. This individual will conduct high quality analyses and synthesize multiple data sources to generate insights and actionable recommendations, while leveraging effective communication & influencing skills to orchestrate action within the HQ and Customer Facing teams.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree (required)
A minimum of 3 years of business experience in Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) with a focus on category management (preferred), business analytics and/or shopper insights
Strong Analytical/Data Skills & Mindset
Syndicated data knowledge such as Circana (IRI)
Exceptional communication skills – verbal, written & presentation & follow-through
Strength in leveraging facts and insights to build category selling stories and providing shelving guidance to retailer teams.
Superior drive for results with demonstrated ability to build indispensable, collaborative partnerships with the customer and internal business partners, across functional teams
Highly skilled in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word and PowerPoint)

Nice To Haves

JDA Space Planning software experience (preferred)
Experience with reporting tools such as Tableau or MicroStrategy (preferred)

Responsibilities

Manage retailer item and distribution inputs for NDT across multiple customers.
Review and validate data submitted by category management teams to ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness.
Partner with IT to troubleshoot data issues and maintain reliable reporting outputs.
Support reporting related to voids, new items, target items, and distribution performance.
Conduct robust analysis using research, category management capabilities, analytical tools, and data visualization to identify and communicate business opportunities and challenges.
Assist with ad hoc analytical requests for customer-facing teams, including Fountain Food Service (FFS) stakeholders.
Support development and maintenance of JDA/Blue Yonder planograms and merchandising layouts.
Organize and analyze category performance data to support retail recommendations, elevating analyses beyond reporting to translate insight into retail action.
Serve as a liaison between category management teams, IT, shopper insights, and customer-facing teams, and develop relationships that establish KDP as the indispensable partner for category management needs.
Collaborate with internal cross-functional and customer-facing teams to develop both strategic and tactical solutions to business opportunities.
Help identify and remove process obstacles that impact execution efficiency.
Contribute to the creation and maintenance of recurring business review materials and insight decks.
Maintain spreadsheets, databases, and tracking tools used for distribution and category reporting.
Perform data audits and quality checks to ensure reporting integrity.
Provide category management reporting, trend analysis, customized reports, and special project work for the KDP cross-functional team and key stakeholders.
Support continuous improvement efforts related to reporting processes and workflow efficiency.
Develop and cultivate business relationships with the Commercialization team that establishes KDP as the indispensable partner for all category management needs.
Deliver fully integrated consumer driven category leadership based on marketplace insights and trends to guide strategic choices and tactical executions.
Leverage critical thinking and problem-solving skills to recognize and anticipate issues and opportunities by elevating analyses beyond reporting and translate insight into retail action.
Serve as the expert on all things category to cross-functional team members