Category Analyst, Walmart Advisor

About The Job

Vision of the role: Serve as a member of the Category Advisor Team, being an unbiased analytic and category leadership expert using the category management process as a decision platform for all initiatives designed to optimize category performance at the customer.

Key Responsibilities

• Planogram Development/Management – Develop planograms that demonstrate an understanding of customer’s overall category strategy and visual merchandising standards
• Analyze multiple categories simultaneously, allocating fixture space based on performance, sales potential, and incrementality
• Review planograms with customer and be able to articulate rationale for space decisions
• Ensure data integrity of all planograms and planogram assignments, including ownership and maintenance of product, performance, and image libraries
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge of BLUE YONDER Space Planning and ability to efficiently create planograms in a fast-paced environment
• Develop necessary planogram reporting tools to support business decision making, including the design and automation of reports
• Perform analyses and use data to drive category insights that help shape the category vision
• Collect and mine through market research and customer-based shopper insights and run correlation analysis to really understand which levers drive category growth at the customer(s)
• Perform competitive analysis by category to identify trends, opportunities and challenges to core business areas
• Perform category and channel analysis for customer(s) to drive category growth period over period
• Discover and share category trends, fair share opportunity gaps, and share of wallet and leakage opportunities for customer(s)
• Create reports that include Customer market and rest of market performance, distribution grids, new product tracking, velocity reports, and pricing & promotion analysis

Salary Range

The salary range for this position is $75,000 – $85,000 USD. The exact salary offered will depend on several factors, including the candidate’s relevant experience, geographic location, internal equity, and market conditions.

About You

• 4 year college degree in Business or related field (Finance, etc.)
• 1-3 years previous work experience
• Knowledge of syndicated data and space management preferred
• Expert in Excel to migrate multiple data sources into reporting tools
• Occasional travel required
• Knowledge of syndicated data required, proficient in shopper/panel data and space management