Your Opportunity as the Associate Lead, Category Leadership – Walmart Advisory Analytics
Key contributor to Walmart Category Advisory Team. Expert in data analytics, retail strategy, and bringing business-building concepts to life in store and online. Go-to expert to build insightful data stories, reporting, and visualizations. Builds trusting relationships with Walmart, working closely to activate key components of category strategy.
Location: Bentonville, AR (JMS Regional Walmart Office)
Work Arrangements: Hybrid ~30% in office presence
In this role you will:
Customer Category Management
- Assist in the development and implementation of Customer specific Category Leadership Plans (CLP) and 4P tactical solutions
- Identify key business trends and synthesize for customer application
- Identify opportunities and issues and support the Category Advisory team to implement solutions at retail
- Provide broad insights to support customer initiatives
- Understand the competitive marketplace in which JMS and customers operate
- Communicate insights and learnings to the customer merchandising team
- Actively participate in retailer calls
- Collaborate and influence across the various Strategic Business Areas (SBAs)
The Right Place for You
We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.
What we are looking for:
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 4+ years of relevant Consumer Packaged Goods experience
- 2+ years of Category Management experience
- Experience leveraging Circana or AC Nielsen data
- Experience building relationships with customers / retailers
- Strong analytical skills, problem solving and storytelling experience
- Ability to translate insights into actions
- Strategic mindset to help build and execute effective plans
- Ability to travel up to 15%
Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:
- Luminate Charter experience
- Planogramming / Planogram software experience (JDA Prospace)
- Experience with Alteryx, Tableau and/or other data visualization tools
Learn more about working at Smucker:
- Our Total Rewards Benefits Program
- Our Thriving Together Philosophy Supporting All Impacted by Our Business
- Our Continued Progress on Inclusion, Diversity and Equity
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What We Do
Each generation of consumers leaves their mark on culture by establishing new expectations for food and the companies that make it. At The J.M. Smucker Co., it is our privilege to be at the heart of this dynamic with a portfolio that appeals to each generation of people and pets with products found in 90 percent of U.S. homes and countless restaurants. This includes a mix of iconic brands consumers have always loved such as Folgers®, Jif® and Milk-Bone® and new favorites like Café Bustelo®, Smucker’s® Uncrustables® and Rachael Ray® Nutrish®. By continuing to immerse ourselves in consumer and pet parent preferences for food, how it’s purchased and how the companies that make it should operate, we will maintain the important role we play in their lives. This will allow us to continue growing our business and the positive impact we have on all of those who count on us.
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