Sr Category Analyst

Advantage Sales & Marketing dba Advantage Solutions • Portland, OR

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About The Position

The Sr Category Analyst supports Category Merchandising Teams by developing and delivering reports and analyses on merchandising, pricing, financials, and customer behavior. Working within relevant platforms, the analyst helps optimize assortments and collaborates with stakeholders to align with Category Directors’ and manufacturer goals. The role focuses on schematic assortments and partners with the schematic analyst team to maintain product assortments using software programs for assigned categories.

The position works with Category Managers and other departments to create assortments on brand timelines, tailor assortments to markets while following national guardrails, analyze assortment data, and find solutions to store space limitations. It also monitors store scanning and evaluates performance, including post-reset analysis. The work is performed primarily in an office environment. Travel and driving are not essential duties. The role has no direct reports but may provide guidance or mentoring to indirect reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent job-related experience.
• 4–6 years of experience with planograms or floorplans.
• Experience conducting analysis in a professional setting.
• Knowledge of industry products and space-planning processes.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across departments and customer teams.
• Ability to thrive in a deadline-driven environment.
• Strong organization, reliability, and ability to draw insights that influence decisions and drive results.
• Excellent communication abilities.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Intellectual curiosity, problem-solving ability, and willingness to learn quickly.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in merchandising.

Responsibilities

• Achieve assortment-creation deliverables according to brand timelines, partnering with other departments as needed.
• Assist Category Managers in tailoring assortments to each market, accounting for regional and local items, unique clusters, and set sizes while following national guardrails.
• Report data errors to the appropriate party for resolution and provide assortment analytics to supporting departments.
• Help Category Managers understand store space limitations and develop solutions that meet company objectives.
• Monitor store scanning and continually evaluate the process for opportunities.
• Provide post-reset analysis to evaluate the performance of implemented changes.
• Support Category Merchandising Teams with reports and analyses on merchandising, pricing, financials, and customer behavior.
• Partner with the schematic analyst team to maintain product assortments for assigned categories.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior