Senior Category Analyst

Company Overview

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

Data & Analytics

In this role, you will be analyzing industry data to inform business and product decisions, blending historical data from available industry reports, public information, field reports or purchased sources as input to analyses identifying and analyzing industry/geographic trends and competitor market strategies and monitoring current/potential customer trends, partnering with other areas of the business (e.g., Marketing, Pricing, Product, etc.) to model the outcome of implementing potential business strategies and will work directly with external stakeholders and providers.

• Serve as an advisor to internal teams and customers to help support key initiatives and decision-making with strategic customers.
• Design KPI based scorecards of strategic initiatives to help drive achievements and identify areas of improvement.
• Build and maintain fact-based product assortment strategies by blending internal and industry/syndicated data sources specific to the customer.
• Identify trends and opportunities about Tire Industry or Consumer buying habits that can be leveraged as insights for strategic growth initiatives.
• Cultivate internal and external relationships to build mutual understanding and reach mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Coach and share best practices to enhance team knowledge, efficiency, and effectiveness.

• Analyzes complex data, forming conclusions and recommendations, producing insights that will help shape effective strategies to achieve business outcomes.
• Use data storytelling to influence stakeholders with presentations that lead to actionable insights and solutions.
• Subject matter expert and owner of syndicated sell out data from GFK and Circana.
• Own ongoing market analysis presentations for internal and external consumption, utilizing several sources including internal data as well as Industry/syndicated data sources.
• Understand evolving market dynamics with respect to mergers, acquisitions etc. from both manufacturer and retailer standpoint.

• Bachelor’s degree and minimum of 3 years of category management experience
• Proficient in Tableau desktop or Alteryx or similar data blending tool
• Strong Understanding of Consumer Replacement Tire Industry
• Excellent communication skills, including experience presenting to various levels of management
• Experience analyzing data to solve a wide variety of business problems
• Self-starter with strong time management and organizational skills
• Able to engage in consultative manner with management and other analysts when helping solve/manage content deliverables
• Team player with ability to collaborate with others

• Advanced knowledge of Alteryx and Tableau
• Knowledge and utilization of GFK, Circana, and other industry reports.
• Experience with customer and geographic segmentation
• Extensive consumer tire industry product knowledge

We believe people can only provide superior service and quality to others when they bring their whole self to work. We believe in championing all perspectives, individuals and teams because we understand the importance of seeing the world and our business through many different lenses. We are building a team as diverse as the world we serve. So, show us what you are made of, because who you are is what we need.

At Bridgestone, what really matters is to foster co-creation opportunities and empowering you to be creative and curious…