Category Manager - Walmart

Philips•Rogers, AR

2d•$98,000 - $156,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Provide category management and sales analytics expertise across the Philips Personal Health portfolio that will contribute to driving sales for Philips and Walmart. Your role: You will collaborate with sales team colleagues and Walmart to monitor omnichannel consumer and sales trends for the key categories within Philips Personal Health: Oral Health Care, Grooming & Beauty and Mother & Child Care. You will provide expertise in using the Walmart Scintilla tool to help drive sales results for Philips and Walmart. This will include partnering with the Walmart Scintilla account team, applying insights and communicating results regularly to Walmart and the Philips organization. You will contribute to guidance for assortment, pricing, promotion and shelf layout and construct planograms for illustration purposes as needs require. You will leverage AI resources and processes where applicable to maximize efficiency. Serve as an analytic thought leader for Philips and help to train colleagues to use data and tools to continuously improve business performance. You will build credibility with presentations to Philips sales team and Walmart buyers as needed to share category knowledge, category management recommendations and industry trends.

Requirements

5+ years of experience working with retailers, CPG manufacturers and/or consultants in category management, merchandising and data management and insights.
Extensive familiarity with Walmart is preferred.
Strong familiarity with Walmart Scintilla, syndicated data resources (Nielsen, Circana, etc.) and data hierarchies.
Ability to navigate the nuances associated with using these tools.
Demonstrated ability to understand retailer specific sales tools as well as shopper and panel data and to generate insights.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
Comfortable navigating between a diverse group of categories and data sources to solve problems and create winning selling stories.
Must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.

Nice To Haves

Experience with a planogram software package (e.g. Blue Yonder Space Planning Plus) is desirable.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with sales team colleagues and Walmart to monitor omnichannel consumer and sales trends for key categories within Philips Personal Health.
Provide expertise in using the Walmart Scintilla tool to help drive sales results for Philips and Walmart.
Partner with the Walmart Scintilla account team, applying insights and communicating results regularly to Walmart and the Philips organization.
Contribute to guidance for assortment, pricing, promotion and shelf layout.
Construct planograms for illustration purposes as needs require.
Leverage AI resources and processes where applicable to maximize efficiency.
Serve as an analytic thought leader for Philips and help to train colleagues to use data and tools to continuously improve business performance.
Build credibility with presentations to Philips sales team and Walmart buyers as needed to share category knowledge, category management recommendations and industry trends.