Sr Category Management Analyst - Walmart

Foods people love. Brands people trust. And a career that nourishes your future like no other.If you're driven by the passion to do something meaningful that changes lives, Nestle is the place for you. Nestle USA is one of seven operating companies that make up Nestle's presence in the United States. We're in 97% of American homes, and as the leading food and beverage company, our goals are to continue to deliver quality food and beverage products, strengthen our local communities, and reduce our environmental and climate impact.We're determined to challenge the status quo and be better tomorrow than we are today. As individuals and teams, we embrace our entrepreneurial culture and have created a workplace where collaboration is essential, courage is rewarded, speed is expected, and agility is the norm to delight our consumers every single day. Here, you will find limitless opportunities to learn and advance your career and feel empowered to succeed in the workplace and beyond. Because our focus is not only on nourishing our customers, but also about enriching you.This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.The Sr Category Analyst (Advisor) supports Category Managers (CM) in the development and execution of the customer strategy strategic plan. A primary responsibility of this position is to partner with the CM in the development of Strategic Category plans in collaboration with the customer, internal insights and research resources. Additionally, this position will leverage advanced technical skills in cultivating advanced analytics as well as insights technology to unearth customer specific category specific insights that assist the CM in the modular relay strategy development. This position also has ownership in the execution of the modular relay processes.Responsibilities:Reporting, Data Insights and Communication: Ability to create, analyze and provide insights for customer weekly pos performance, modular pre vs post performance, Test and Learn insights, and other similar customer data derived insights, as well as being knowledgeable on the category's business intelligence reporting portfolio for business acumen and adhoc requests.Ownership of leveraging and supplying insights from wide variety of insights data platforms, such as Luminate, Mastercard Test and Learn, Circana, Kantar, Mintel, and supporting CM and category buying team on related adhoc requests.Cultivating actionable insights through advanced analytics as well as opportunity gaps and white space project ownership.Driving success of Modular Relays from Strategy inception through Modular Submission

Strategy deep dive support of the CM related to analytics, insights, assortment optimization, and ownership of assortment and cluster recommendationsPlanogram automation expertise and ownership of rules development, testing and validation of automated mods, full relay generation of mods, mod validation processesModular drawing and validation during relayOwnership of post modular analytics and relay analytics

Requirements:Bachelor's Degree preferredPrevious experience with a category advisor team, business analytics or technical / analytical roleProfessional experience outside of Category Management for a broader perspective is a plusStrong technical skills required and expertise with advanced analytics, statistical and predictive modeling and coding language(s) a plusAdvanced MS Excel and PowerPoint skillsPrevious experience with Walmart customer data, Circana and/or other syndicated data to help create category stories and understand the customer preferredIn the absence of the experiences above, a college degree focused in Business, Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science/Data Analytics, or Information Systems, and/or full time work experience in a technical/analytical field / functional area is strongly preferredTechnical SkillsExcel, PowerPointThe following skills are desirable:

Power BI Power Query or AlteryxShiloh, or other similar database type toolCKB, POG Generator, JDALuminateNielsen/CircanaNumeratorKantarMintelMicrosoft TeamsMastercard Test and Learn

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