Walmart Category Advisor

Company Summary:   

As a rapidly growing global manufacturer of residential and commercial products, Greenworks is leading the charge toward a more powerful and sustainable future. With over 20 years of research and development, including over 1000 patents in outdoor power equipment, power tools, and lifestyle products, we’re pushing the limits of what battery technology can do to improve the quality of work and life. 

Position Summary:
The Category Advisor is responsible for leading Greenworks category captaincy of Walmart’s outdoor power equipment categories.  You must possess a bias for action, be a critical thinker, and be able to help cross functional teams as well as Walmart merchant teams understand the category and identify the best ways to drive growth.  You will be a one-man category advisor team and need to be comfortable driving that work forward on your own. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

•    Excellent ability to communicate internally with Greenworks cross functional teams to help inform go to market strategy. 
•    Identify root causes of customer issues and opportunities and deliver compelling stories to drive action to address
•     Draw key insights and business recommendations on distribution, assortment, pricing, and promotion by analysis of industry, panel, & market intelligence data (Traqline, Scintilla, OPEI, CRC, etc)
•    Develop and integrate consumer, industry, and retailer insights to better advise targeted strategies, plans and decisions
•    Integrate sales and industry data to develop impactful customer-specific strategies in support of key category business building initiatives.
•    Experience developing a Walmart modular (general merchandise experience is preferred) from start to finish. Ability to use clustering analysis to optimize and improve modular planning.
•    Lead broader space initiatives across aisle and store
•    Understand and apply best-practice category management processes
•    Build connections and inroads with Walmart merchant teams
•    Adhere to Walmart’s Category Advisor contract

Required Education and Experience:
•    Bachelor’s degree, MBA a plus
•    Minimum 3 years of category advisor experience
•    Microsoft Suite (Excel, PowerPoint), Power BI, JDA Space Planning, Scintilla
•     Proven project management skills. 
•     Detail orientation while managing massive amounts of data
•     Applicable experience in consumer-packaged goods industry; general merchandise a plus
•     Demonstrated deep understanding of Planogram & Walmart Relay management
•     Experience in Category Leadership [Insights & storytelling]
•     Experience calling on Walmart
•     Demonstrated space management software skills

Compensation and Benefits:

• Health, dental, and vision coverage
• Assistance with fertility treatment and adoption
• 401k company match plan
• Paid sick, personal, and vacation time

Greenworks will not offer sponsorship for employment-based visa status (including, but not limited to, H-1B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.