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 - onsite a minimum of 2 days per week
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 leveraging Scintilla
Planogramming / Planogram software experience (JDA Prospace)
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 (not required):
Luminate Charter experience
ShelfIQ experience
Experience with Tableau and/or other data visualization tools from a reporting perspective
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