Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience

• 1 year of experience in Sales or Category Management

• 1 year of business analytics experience

• Experience working with syndicated data software (i.e., IRI or Nielsen AOD)

• Experience working with Microsoft Office programs specifically Excel and PowerPoint

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in Sales or Category Management in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry

• 2+ years of business Analytics experience in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry

• Complete understanding of the Category Management process

What would be your key responsibilities?

• Provide analysis and make decisions on a variety of projects within the Category Leadership team:

  • Shelving excellence strategies that drive total category performance

  • Development of JDA POGs; IC/FC, across multiple channels depending on project scope

  • Assortment optimization and incrementality

  • Price/Promotion efficiencies

  • Merchandising effectiveness

• The expectation of this role is to leverage, where appropriate, solutions/tools such as:

  • Space management initiatives such as Prospace (JDA), Apollo for merchandising visualization

  • Nielsen/IRI/Syndicated Data sources for analyses

  • Forecasting tools, both seasonal and everyday based on price/promotion/distribution

  • Incrementality tools to optimize the merchandise assortment

• Create and maintain scale templates, including but not limited to:

  • Opportunity Gap, Pack Opportunity, Confectionery Quarterly Review Template and Panel Data Templates

• Analyze syndicated and attitudinal data for trends, and decide which opportunities to pursue

• Prioritization of workload and field stakeholder management

• Functional and technical expertise and primarily deliver results through themselves.  Achieve goals by applying expert knowledge to make decisions and to influence others.