Category Analyst - Walmart

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Purina’s sales category team ensures we proudly stand as a leader in the pet care industry, while being seamlessly integrated into the world’s largest food and beverage company. We give you the high charge of helping develop and present customer omni‑business plans, providing financial analysis, leveraging analytical data/insights, and developing category plans to achieve overall category growth around sales, market share, and profit objectives.

Your collective experiences at Purina will far surpass your achievements in growing category sales as we work to innovate the pet care industry.

• Deliver consistent, detailed, and accurate category analysis (4P) overview
• Provide timely, value‑added insights and recommendations to the customer that develops proper relations, rapport, and helps achieve category and customer objectives
• Utilize syndicated data, consumer data (loyalty and point of sale), internal data, and shopper data to uncover opportunities and provide analytical recommendations
• Work cross‑functionally to drive action and implementation
• Strong initiative and ability to perform in ambiguous environment
• Lead work on setting the visual store set and digital shelf recommendations
• Own modular (plan‑o‑gram) item maintenance to ensure data integrity
• Assist in the development and implementation of strategic omnichannel category business plans, including business, market, competitive, and shopper trends
• Partner with Category Managers to perform omnichannel category/brand analysis for the retail customer

• Bachelor’s degree +1 year experience working with retail/sales data or within a CPG environment OR High School diploma +4 years experience in category development, business analytics or marketing

• Experience with syndicated and shopper data (Nielsen, IRI, Retail Link, Scintilla, MADRID, Power
  
  BI) is preferred
• Experience working with larger retailers is preferred

The approximate pay range for this position is $69,000 to $92,000. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills and abilities as well as geographic location. Nestlé offers performance‑based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits.

Incentives and/or benefit packages may vary depending on the position. Learn more at About Us | Nestlé Careers ()

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Job Requisition: 381954