Category Insights Manager - Walmart

Kenvue is recruiting for a

Category Insights Manager - Walmart

Who We Are:

At Kenvue, we realize the extraordinary power of everyday care. Built on over a century of heritage and rooted in science, we’re the house of iconic brands - including Neutrogena, Aveeno, Tylenol, Listerine, Johnson’s and BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandages that you already know and love. Science is our passion; care is our talent. Our global team is made up of ~ 22,000 diverse and brilliant people, passionate about insights, innovation and committed to delivering the best products to our customers. With expertise and empathy, being a Kenvuer means having the power to impact the life of millions of people every day. We put people first, care fiercely, earn trust with science and solve with courage – and have brilliant opportunities waiting for you! Join us in shaping our future–and yours. For more information, click here.

Role reports to: Senior Manager, Category Insights Manager

Location: Roger, AR

Travel %: 15%

Pay: $98,000 - $167,900

What you will do:

The Category Insights Manager is a critical role on the Kenvue-Walmart Team; responsible for building, developing, and leading a partnership with Walmart as a Category Captain. As the category lead you will have the opportunity to shape category growth plans based on key data, shopper and category insights and trends.  This individual should have strong analytical skills, collaboration, project leadership, thought leadership, and have the ability to pull together strategic recommendations from insights and data.  This leader will serve as a category expert, lead assortment assessments, business processes and have tool capabilities across key shopper / category systems such as POS,  Syndicated Data, JDA Space Planning Software.  This person should be able to operate in a high level fast paced, complex, and changing 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:

• Serve as a Lead Category Captain across key category – be a trusted and unbiased category partner that brings strong thought leadership to the customer
• Plan, champion and coordinate impactful category recommendations and best-practice sharing.
• Provide superior support to Walmart Merchandising team during POG Line Review process
• 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 deep-dive analytics using a variety of resources including, but not limited to: POS, Syndicated Data, Marketplace & HH Panel Assessments, and Ad/Promotion Review
• Responsible for leading analytics to provide value-added weekly reporting to the customer
• Lead and empower your end-to-end team to act with speed, agility, and accountability
• Be a shopper and category champion within the organization, providing voice of customer and shaping learning plans
• Work with cross-functional stakeholders and internal Shopper/Category partners on research opportunities: provide voice-of-customer, shape research projects, and activate findings to be customer-specific
• Work on Category Strategy Development including growth plans for focus Segments/Brands, Regional/Demographic Opportunities, and Assortment Gaps
• Influence and execute the POG activation of merchandising improvements, efficient assortment, and clustering solutions
• Develop, leverage, and share best-practices to enhance the