Associate Category Manager
C.A. Fortune
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Bentonville • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $80,000 - $90,000 per year
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Support the execution of category management initiatives, analytics, and reporting for assigned clients and retailers.
- Deliver accurate analyses to optimize pricing, promotion, distribution, displays and shelf placement.
- Maintain value-added and actionable category management tools.
- Produce recurring and ad-hoc reporting for assigned clients, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
- Support development of category reviews, business reviews, and selling stories.
- Provide shopper analysis, syndicated, and consumer data to identify key trends and opportunities.
- Apply foundational category management principles to support client KPI objectives.
- Prepare materials for client meetings, including new item presentations and shelf analyses.
- Maintain strong working relationships with internal sales teams and cross-functional partners.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, analytics, finance, information systems, or related fields.
- 4 - 6+ years of experience in CPG as a Category Analyst, Insights Analyst, or similar analytics role; exposure to shopper or syndicated data required.
- Must have experience with Walmart and comprehensive knowledge of the category review process.
- Strong curiosity and desire to understand the 'why' behind the data.
- Proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint; ability to manage datasets and create clear presentations.
- Ability to articulate insights concisely and translate data into meaningful implications.
- Organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills and ability to meet deadlines.
Benefits
- 16 days of PTO
- 11 paid company holidays per year
- 2 paid volunteer days per year
- 3 months fully paid parental leave (regardless of gender)
- Medical, dental, and vision
- Paid company life insurance
- 401k with company match
- Summer hours (half day Fridays from Memorial Day thru Labor Day)
- Work from home flexibility
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
category managementanalyticsreportingshopper analysissyndicated dataconsumer dataKPI objectivesdata managementdata analysispresentation skills
Soft skills
curiosityproblem-solvingorganizational skillsdetail-orientedcommunication skillstime managementrelationship buildingability to articulate insightsability to manage multiple tasksability to meet deadlines