Category Analyst - Walmart

Nestlé•Rogers, AR

6d•$69,000 - $92,000

About The Position

Purina's sales category team ensures we proudly stand as a leader in the pet care industry, while being seamlessly integrated into the world's largest food and beverage company. We give you the high charge of helping develop and present customer omni-business plans, providing financial analysis, leveraging analytical data/insights, and developing category plans to achieve overall category growth around sales, market share, and profit objectives. Your collective experiences at Purina will far surpass your achievements in growing category sales as we work to innovate the pet care industry.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree +1 year experience working with retail/sales data or within a CPG environment OR High School diploma +4 years experience in category development, business analytics or marketing

Nice To Haves

Experience with syndicated and shopper data (Nielsen, IRI, Retail Link, Scintilla, MADRID, PowerBI) is preferred
Experience working with larger retailers is preferred

Responsibilities

Deliver consistent, detailed, and accurate category analysis (4P) overview
Provide timely, value-added insights, and recommendations to the customer that develops proper relations, rapport, and helps achieve category and customer objectives
Utilize syndicated data, consumer data (loyalty and point of sale), internal data, and shopper data to uncover opportunities and provide analytical recommendations
Work cross-functionally to drive action and implementation
Strong initiative & ability to perform in ambiguous environment
Leads work on setting the visual store set and digital shelf recommendations
Owns Modular (plan-o-gram) item maintenance to ensure data integrity
Assist in the development and implementation of strategic omnichannel category business plans, including business, market, competitive, and shopper trends
Partner with Category Managers to perform omnichannel category/brand analysis for the retail customer