Senior Category Management Analyst (Walmart Account)

 

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 role will be responsible for building a strong partnership with the company's key B2C Retailers (Walmart and Sam’s Club) by developing and implementing analytics and insights to deliver against company, category, and customer priorities.  This position will also be 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 hybrid role that will work in office 2-3 days a week and the rest remotely from home.
 

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 the account teams and cross functional teams to develop solutions to business issues. 
•    Responsible for developing and running weekly/monthly category and brand reports to help Team understand trends and analytics.
•    Support and develop materials for category reviews, line reviews, promotion analysis, new item trackers, etc. 
•    Mastery of data tools – 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, etc.
•    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 Retailers.
•    Perform additional duties and tasks as assigned by direct Manager. 
 

Requirements: 

•    Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Psychology or in a related field required. 
•    3+ years of relevant work experience within the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry in a Category Management driven career required. 
•    Demonstrated fluency  in MS Office (Word/Excel/Outlook/PowerPoint) required. 
•    Must be data driven, with a strong capability to tell a story through data. 
•    Must have excellent communication (oral and written), organizational, presentation and stakeholder management skills (including the ability to develop and maintain strong, cross-functional stakeholder relationships). 
•    Willing and able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines with minimal supervision. 
•    Understand the value of listening to customers, gaining insights and moving objectives forward.
•    Must be team-oriented, self-driven and able to multi-task and prioritize tasks based on the needs of the team and the business. 
•    Experience with Osprey, IRI/Nielsen, Circana, SAP and or Power BI systems is highly preferred. 
 

Requisition ID: 
302102 

 

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