Senior Analyst Category Management

Retail & Consumer Goods
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree preferred
  • 2+ years in category analytics or business analytics role
  • Strong technical skills in analytics
  • Experience with Walmart or Sam's customer data
  • Familiarity with syndicated data

Responsibilities

  • Create and analyze customer POS performance insights
  • Leverage data platforms for actionable insights
  • Serve as primary contact for customer modular development
  • Maintain item attribution and data accuracy
  • Collaborate with category manager on Modular Relay success
  • Support analytics and merchandising for modular submissions
  • Assist in testing modular drawings during relay process

Benefits

  • Collaborative team environment
  • Opportunity for professional growth and development
  • Access to advanced analytics tools and technologies
  • Engagement with a diverse set of customers and data sources
Full Job Description
This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.

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 Relay Strategy.

Key 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.
  • Serve as the primary contact for the customer modular development team and manage store traiting.
  • Ensure the accurate maintenance of item attribution, images, and dimension collection and updates.
  • 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.

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.

Technical Skills
  • 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
  • 76963863

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