Senior Category Insights Analyst

Kenvue is currently recruiting for a:

Senior Category Insights Analyst

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Role reports to:

Dir Category Mgmt and Insights Walmart

Location:

North America, United States, Arkansas, Rogers

Work Location:

Hybrid

What you will do

The Senior Category Insights Analyst is responsible for supporting the Senior Category Insights Manger with unbiased strategic and tactical insights and recommendations to assist the Walmart Merchants with Online and In-Store, Distribution, Shelving, Merchandising, and Promotional opportunities to improve and drive category performance.

The Category Management Team plays a vital role within the Kenvue-Walmart partnership, acting as a key advisor to Walmart. As a Senior Category Insights Analyst, you will collaborate closely with the Senior Category Insights Manager to develop and refine category growth strategies informed by critical data, shopper insights, and emerging trends. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical abilities, excel in collaboration, demonstrate effective project leadership, and exhibit thought leadership. This role requires expertise in category management, where you will partner with the Manager to conduct assortment evaluations and optimize business processes, leveraging essential shopper and category systems such as POS, Syndicated Data, and JDA Space Planning Software. The candidate must thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, and complex business environment.

If you want to be a category leader, are retailer and shopper focused, and have a passion for developing yourself and others then this is the job for you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide outstanding support to Walmart Merchandising during modular relay process and provide insightful weekly reporting to the customer

• Provide unbiased strategic and tactical insights and recommendations to Walmart Merchant on Distribution, Shelving, Merchandising, Pricing, & Promotional opportunities to improve category performance instore and online.

• Uncover business opportunities with analytics using a category toolkit including, but not limited to: POS/ Retail Link, Syndicated Data, Marketplace & HH Panel Assessments, Scintilla and Ad/Promotion Review

• Work with internal Shopper/Category partners on research opportunities: provide voice-of-customer, facilitate research projects, and activate findings to be customer-specific

• Influence and execute the modular activation of merchandising improvements, efficient assortment, and clustering solutions

• Develop and share best-practices to enhance the entire category management team

What we are Looking for

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree is required

• Minimum of (2) years in CPG industry – customer analytics, customer insights, category management and/or shopper insights for consumer or relevant business experience

• Deep analytical expertise and experience working with Scintilla, syndicated data, panel data, shopper-card data, and other research

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships

• Ability to develop and oversee the execution of project