Senior Category Management Analyst - Coffee and Beverage

Nestle Operational Services Worldwide SA • Rogers, AR

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About The Position

The Sr. Category Analyst (Advisor) assists the Category Manager in developing and executing the modular relay process. A key responsibility is to collaborate with the Category Manager and the customer to create Strategic Category plans by leveraging analytics, insights, and technology to identify actionable customer-specific insights to drive the Category and Relay Strategy. Working cross functionally with our corporate based team to drive results is a key success factor.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• 2+ years previous experience with a category advisor team, business analytics or technical / analytical role
• Strong technical skills are required, with expertise in analytics, as well as previous experience with Walmart and/or Sam’s customer data and syndicated data.

Nice To Haves

• Basic financial acumen
• Understands the CPG industry
• Ability to sell an idea persuasively and to collaborate with others
• Ability to build diverse collaborative relationships
• Scintilla/Madrid
• Circana/Nielsen
• JDA Space Planning (ProSpace)
• CKB, POG Generator
• Power BI/Tableau
• MS Tools, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint, etc.
• Shiloh, or other similar database tool

Responsibilities

• Create, analyze and provide insights for customer weekly POS performance, modular pre vs post-performance, Test and Learn insights, and other similar customer data derived insights, as well as being knowledgeable on the category’s business intelligence reporting portfolio for ad hoc requests.
• Leverage insights from a variety of data platforms to cultivate actionable insights and identify opportunity gaps.
• Assist in overseeing store trait management, item attribution, and the collection and updating of images and dimensions.
• Partner with the category manager to ensure the success of Modular Relays from strategy inception to modular submission.
• Provide support in analytics, insights, merchandising, assortment optimization, and cluster recommendations.
• Assist with testing and validating modular drawings during the relay process for generation, submission and post-modular and relay analytics.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree