Senior Category Management Analyst - Walmart

Main Purpose of Job

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