Sr Category Analyst

2 months ago

Rogers, United States Acosta Full time
Job Description

This position is #hybrid in our Rogers, AR office 3 days a week.

What You'll Do
  • Data-Driven Decision-Making: Utilize data analysis techniques to extract actionable insights. Making informed recommendations for product selection and placement. Create fact-based selling stories for presentations to buyers.
  • Draw key insights and business recommendations on distribution, assortment, pricing, and promotion by analysis of customer & syndicated data
  • Identify growth opportunities and make recommendations on space allocation, merchandising fixtures/solutions, assortment, POG flow, etc.
  • Reporting and Communication: Prepare regular reports on category performance, market trends, and KPIs-and present findings to key stakeholders, including retailers and internal senior management.
  • Maintains advanced knowledge of available databases and how to obtain, retrieve, and generate reports as needed.
  • Continuous Learning and Professional Development: Stay updated on industry best practices, tools, and technologies. Upskill in data analytics, category management, and market research. Foster a culture of innovation and excellence within the team.
  • Stays up to date on the latest trends and helps to establish "Best Practice" methodologies in all steps of the category development process. Makes recommendations to enable continuous improvement.
  • Synthesize actionable insights using retailer data, internal/syndicated data sources, incrementality data, and shopper insights.
Responsibilities

What You'll Need To Succeed
  • 2-5 years as a Category Analyst with experience in CPG/Retailer
  • Strong PC skills, including proficiency in Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
  • Experience working with standard data resources and solutions (e.g., Syndicated POS, Panel, Retail Link, Madrid).
  • Ability to understand and utilize category data in conjunction with Space Management software and reporting tools.
  • Comfortable working independently and handling sensitive information.
  • Thorough understanding of merchandising principles.
  • Tendency to be a proactive self-starter with a drive to take ownership of projects and see through to completion with Problem-solving capabilities
Qualifications

Education
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent relevant work experience
Physical
  • Seeing
  • Listening


About Us

Acosta and Mosaic are the sales and marketing powerhouses behind the most recognized and proven brands with top retailers in the United States and Canada. We offer flexible services that maximize efficiency. Acosta has the talent and technology to build data-, reach- and relationship-driven strategies to execute those strategies, and the tools to monitor, track and optimize metrics-based results for customers and retailers.

Acosta and its subsidiaries is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Acosta and its subsidiaries, in good faith, believes that this posted range of compensation is the accurate range for this role at the time of this posting. Acosta may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range depending on candidate qualifications and locations. This range may be modified in the future.

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