Senior Category Management Analyst (Regional & Strategic Grocery - Remote Opportunity)

At Nestlé Health Science, we believe that nutrition, science, and wellness must merge, not collide. Here, we embrace the intrinsic connections of these three pillars, harnessing their collective strength to empower healthier lives. Our broad product portfolio includes renowned brands like Garden of Life®, Nature's Bounty®, Vital Proteins®, Orgain®, Nuun®, BOOST®, Carnation Breakfast Essentials®, Peptamen®, Compleat Organic Blends®, and more. We also have extensive pharmaceutical expertise, offering innovative medicines that aim to prevent, manage, and treat gastrointestinal and metabolic-related diseases.

At Nestlé Health Science, we bring our best for better lives. Our people are challenged to bring fresh, diverse views and make bold moves to empower healthier lives through nutrition. We know brilliant ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. Here we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit and collaborate with teams that champion focused and forward thinking. We are committed to fostering professional growth and celebrating the achievements of our people along the way. We offer dynamic career paths, robust development, opportunities to learn from talented colleagues around the globe, and benefits that support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. 

Join us to innovate for impact and reimagine the future of health and nutrition for patients and consumers. 
 

Job Description: 

The Senior Category Management Analyst will play a valuable role in building a strong partnership with the company's key Retail partners by developing and implementing analytics and insights to deliver against company, category, and customer priorities.  This position is responsible for leading the development and sharing of Category Management foundations and directives throughout the organization for the assigned category and customers.  This is a remote-based opportunity that will support varied accounts to include Price Chopper, Tops Markets, Kinney Drugs and Hy-Vee Grocery Stores.
 

Responsibilities:

•    Support category management strategies for the company and retailers based on industry trends and consumer insights by leveraging various data sources to construct dynamic presentations in order to communicate strategies and achieve objectives.
•    Become an expert in translating internal knowledge into action to identify opportunities for assigned Retailers. 
•    Collaborate with both the Customer Development teams and other cross-functional teams to develop solutions to business issues. 
•    Responsible for developing and running weekly and monthly category and Brand reports to help partnership teams understand various trends and analytics.
•    Support and develop materials for category reviews, line reviews, promotion analysis, new item trackers, etc. 
•    Will master data tools and the optimization of category management tools – assortment and space management.
•    Leverage data tools to provide reporting and insights which will further develop Company and Retailer objectives.
•    Develop analyses and insights that will help with business issues including: SKU rationalization, item defense, new item sell in, category reviews, new item tracking, consumer behavior and more. 
•    Incorporate advanced consumer data (macro-level insights market research, Consumer Decision Tree, household panel data, customer shopper data, Luminate/Madrid, rich mix, JDA) into analyses as relevant.
•    Partner with sales to leverage insights to develop business at assigned Retailer accounts. 
•    Perform additional duties and tasks as assigned by the Director of Category Management. 

Requirements:
 
•    High School Diploma or GED required; Bachelor’s degree preferred. 
•    3+ years of Category Management experience required, preferably within the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry. 
•    Demonstrated fluency in MS Excel (V-Lookups, charts, formulas, graphs, etc.) and also in Office Suite (Word/PowerPoint/Outlook) required. 
•    Experience utilizing IRI/Circana and/or Nielsen syndicated and panel data systems required. 
•    Must have excellent communication (oral and written), presentation, organizational and time management skills. 
•    Ability to develop, build and maintain strong, cross-functional stakeholder relationships (internal and external). 
•    Must have strong data analytics, synthesis and visualization skills, as well as possess the ability to tell stories and influence business decisions effectively through data. 
•    Must be creative with the ability to solve complex problems and be comfortable leading multiple Retailers for a region. 
•    Ability to multi-task and prioritize work and key projects base don the needs of the team and the business. 
•    Willing and able to work under p