Analyst - Category & Channel

CREO GROUP•Troy, MI

6d•$72,000 - $85,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Category & Channel Analyst helps CREO’s Sales and Category Management teams make informed decisions through clear, accurate, useful reporting. The position focuses equally on customer and channel performance and product and category performance. It builds Excel analyses and Power BI dashboards, standardizes retailer point-of-sale data, and serves as the business owner of Salsify, CREO’s product information management system. The role calls for technical capability, attentive listening, curiosity, and commercial judgment. The analyst identifies the business question behind a request and creates intuitive tools that anticipate users’ needs and help business owners develop insights and determine actions. The position is hybrid and based in Troy, Michigan, reports to the Vice President, Marketing & Product Development, has no direct reports, and involves approximately 5% travel as business needs require. CREO describes itself as a consumer product, nursery, and supply company and a full-service designer and manufacturer of national and private-label products. Its mission is to provide innovative container solutions that enhance everyday living through high-quality, environmentally responsible products and disciplined operational execution.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience in commercial reporting or analytics supporting sales, category management, retail, or related teams.
Strong hands-on Power BI report development and visualization skills.
Advanced Excel skills, including PivotTables, lookup and conditional formulas, and Power Query.
Experience cleaning, transforming, and combining inconsistent data files into repeatable reporting processes.
Excellent listening and requirements-discovery skills, including the ability to translate loosely defined needs into useful solutions and incorporate feedback efficiently.
Understanding of revenue, units, gross margin, pricing, and product mix.
Strong attention to accuracy and ability to manage competing priorities.
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.
Ability to remain stationary, sitting or standing, for extended periods while performing office-related tasks.
Ability to operate a computer, keyboard, mouse, telephone, and other standard office equipment; communicate and exchange accurate information; and read documents and screens, with or without reasonable accommodation.
Ability to occasionally move around the office and occasionally lift, carry, push, or pull office materials or equipment weighing up to 15 pounds; occasionally bend, stoop, reach, or kneel to retrieve files or supplies.
Ability to travel occasionally if required for the position.
Ability to follow site-specific safety requirements and wear required personal protective equipment when visiting operational areas.

Nice To Haves

PIM administration experience.
Salsify experience.
Major-retailer POS experience.
Consumer products or manufacturing experience.

Responsibilities

Understand business needs by listening carefully, asking thoughtful questions, clarifying how users will apply information, translating ambiguous requests into practical solutions, prototyping early, and recommending useful context beyond the initial request.
Develop customer, channel, category, and SKU reporting covering shipments, POS, revenue, margin, pricing, promotions, and product mix; enable comparisons with prior periods and plans; and support customer line reviews, assortment assessments, and business planning.
Create and maintain Power BI reports using established datasets and models, alongside flexible Excel analyses; design clear charts, tables, filters, and drilldowns that support independent exploration of performance.
Build repeatable processes to ingest varying retailer Excel files, standardize fields and reporting periods, and map retailer items to CREO products for Power BI reporting; validate completeness and accuracy, resolve exceptions, and document retailer-specific definitions.
Administer Salsify as the business owner by maintaining product attributes, hierarchies, and identifiers; configuring queries, filters, and exports; coordinating data-quality improvements with information owners; and partnering with IT and providers to maintain reliable system connections.
Identify missing data, define requirements, advocate with IT for prioritized additions, and validate delivered functionality.
Reconcile reporting outputs, investigate discrepancies, document definitions, streamline recurring reporting, gather user feedback, and help users apply tools effectively.
Demonstrate CREO’s core values and support its Value Creation Plan through Commercial Innovation, End Market Expansion, Operational Execution, and Nurture Our Team.
Work safely, ethically, and efficiently, contribute to continuous improvement, and collaborate across functions and locations.
Follow site-specific safety requirements and wear required personal protective equipment when entering operational areas.

Benefits

Competitive compensation for eligible full-time employees.
Health insurance.
Dental insurance.
Vision insurance.
Life insurance.
Short- and long-term disability coverage.
Paid time off.
Paid holidays.
401(k) with a generous match; vesting and eligibility begin after 90 days of continuous employment.
Many health and welfare benefits are available after 30 days of continuous employment.