Senior Category Management Analyst Senior Category Management Analyst

Nestle Operational Services Worldwide SA•Rogers, AR

About The Position

The Sr Analyst Category Management supports the Category Managers to drive sales, share, equity, and category growth. This role influences category strategy utilizing frozen industry knowledge, shopper insights, and business analytics. Additionally, the position identifies growth opportunities via best-in-class analytics including assortment optimization and space planning. Working cross functionally with our corporate based team to drive results is a key success factor.

Requirements

5+ years of relevant work experience in category, sales, marketing, etc.
3+ years work experience in Analyst, Category Development, Sales Support roles in the CPG industry
Bachelor’s Degree in a related discipline
Experience in syndicated data (IRI/Nielsen etc.) preferred
Experience working with large datasets.
Ability to work across the Microsoft office suite of tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Words, Teams)
Basic financial acumen
Understands the CPG industry
Ability to sell an idea persuasively and to collaborate with others
Ability to build diverse collaborative relationships
Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
Comfort communicating and presenting cross-functionally
Ability to work in a dynamic, changing, matrix environment

Responsibilities

Foster a consultative approach that helps set category direction
Develop trust with the buying team via an objective category focus and by consistently being a valued advisor that identifies growth opportunities
Technical proficiency and expertise in insights platforms to drive efficient identification of category growth driver opportunities and ideas to close gaps 
Demonstrate initiative and intellectual curiosity to explore the data and insights to develop actionable insights and push new and creative thought 
Be an expert data driven storyteller that delivers the insights in high impact visualizations 
Category Strategy Review deep dive analytics cultivation and customer presentation creation 
Collaborate with Category Management teams across Headquarters and Field cross-functional teams
Supports the assortment precision process to define optimal assortment and make aisle flow recommendations
Supports development of retailers’ ecommerce through assortment recommendations and site development enabled through the guidance of our ecommerce team
Develops custom reporting using customer data and advanced analytics
Leverages tools and data to develop new insights
Interprets company category story into customer specific opportunities for growth
With support and coaching from Manager, Category Development and customer team, develops and executes annual strategic priorities and goals category strategy and vision
Support customer team JBP and other preparation for meetings with buyer, as appropriate