Category Analyst

2 weeks ago

Rockville, United States Mom's Organic Market Full time
Description

YOU:
  • Act as if the universe is rigged in your favor
  • See new responsibilities as opportunities
  • Are happiest when busy
  • Figure out how to fix it, not who's to blame
  • See mistakes as opportunities to learn and grow
  • Enjoy spreading joy
WE:
  • Care more about attitude and work ethic than your experience
  • Love to promote from within
  • Have dynamic and interesting coworkers and customers
  • Have faith in people's potential
  • Make friends at work
  • Take pride in all of our 5 star reviews
The Category Analyst is responsible for supporting the Category Management team in a number of aspects including: product assortment, supplier management, and cost management. This position is located in-office 4 days a week and 1 day remote, at our Central Store Support office (Rockville, MD). You will:
  1. Prepare materials related to category management decision making
  2. Analyze and evaluate department, category, and item performance using multiple lenses (financial, promotions, fulfillment, waste, syndicated data); and convey to the category management team in an easily digestible manner
  3. Perform financial period close analysis, determining root causes for underperforming departments, categories, brands
  4. Cost change tracking & analysis at various levels: supplier, brand, commodity, etc
  5. Perform promotional lift analysis
  6. Collaborate with Category Managers to develop category review presentations, as it relates to assortment, cost, supplier management, syndicated data, etc
  7. Coordinate with Supply Chain team to calculate forecasts for a variety of demand planning needs, ie. onboarding new brands/items/suppliers, holiday projections, and warehouse planning
  8. Process and analyze supplier related information - inventory status, scorecard, service level reporting
  9. Play a lead role in developing and enhancing standardized reporting and visualization analytical tools which drive efficiency for the category management team

What you bring:
  • 2+ years experience with business analytics, preferably in category/assortment management, supplier performance management, or supply chain management, in a retail chain environment
  • Proven ability to take complex business analyses and projects from concept to completion and make results accessible and relevant to end users
  • Strong analytics, insights, presentation, and storytelling skills
  • Experience drawing conclusions from imperfect and incomplete data, application of various analytical techniques, and providing decision-makers with metrics for quantitative decision making
  • Demonstrates advanced analytical reporting and visualization skills - including building dashboards in Tableau (or similar platform), and combining/preparing data using Alteryx or Tableau (or similar tools)
  • Advanced proficiency with Excel, Pivot tables
  • Experience in SQL
  • Self-directed, innovative thinker with strong attention to detail and easily meets deadlines
  • Excellent communication skills (listening, written and verbal) with multiple stakeholders
  • Ability to prioritize tasks that change frequently and manage unexpected demands
  • Intellectual and analytical curiosity - initiative to dig into the "why" of various results
  • Creative problem-solving skills, maturity to handle ambiguity, flexibility to perform in a dynamic collaborative environment
The salary range for this position is $65k - $75k.

We carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications and competencies. We also offer a full range of benefits including:
  • Paid Time Off
  • Paid Pregnancy and Child Bonding Leave
  • 30% employee discount
  • exceptional medical, dental, and vision plans
  • 401k with company matching
  • and more

MOM's participates in E-Verify (for more information, click here: E-verify Participation and Right to Work).

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