Senior Category Analyst, CPG
Acosta
full-time
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Location: Kentucky, Ohio • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- Serve as a category expert on assigned clients to drive sales at customers and support the Kroger team
- Provide merchandising solutions and decision support that drive business growth
- Conduct high-quality analysis and synthesis of multi-source data to evaluate item performance, assortment planning, and store clustering through the modular process
- Provide analytical analysis, insights, and recommendations for category management projects utilizing retailer POS and NielsenIQ/Circana (IRI) data sources and reporting tools
- Build, update, and refresh weekly and monthly dashboards (weekly POS + monthly category recaps)
- Participate in the development of category presentations incorporating syndicated data and other sources that address business issues
- Work closely with CPG Category Management and Space Technology teams to ensure quality results are delivered
- Keep abreast of client KPIs, strategies, innovation, and other important information; leverage client relationships to understand deliverables and project timelines
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree (related work experience may be substituted for the educational requirement)
- Category Management Certification preferred
- 1 – 3 years related experience
- Demonstrate an advanced degree of proficiency in Windows and related software applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, VB, advanced macro’s
- Experience with syndicated data and/or space management tools
- System tools required: 84.51 data platforms (OnDemand and Stratum), Circana, NielsenIQ
- Clearly and concisely communicate relevant information
- Identify and leverage relevant data to diagnose situations and identify potential solutions
- Effectively and independently conduct data mining utilizing CPG math concepts and tools
- Physical Abilities: Seeing; Color Perception; Touching