Senior Category Management Analyst - Target (Meals and Snacks)

Foods you love. Brands you trust. And a career that empowers you to grow. 



 
At Nestlé USA, we’re all working towards the same goal – to delight and deliver for our consumers. With a rich portfolio of beloved brands, including DiGiorno, Toll House, and Coffee mate, in 97% of U.S. households, we have a unique opportunity – and responsibility – to be there for every moment in our consumers’ lives.

 

Joining Nestlé means becoming part of an inclusive workplace that inspires innovation, encourages strategic thinking and creativity, and celebrates your achievements. No matter where you work within the organization, you are empowered to challenge the status quo, embrace risk-taking, and pioneer new ideas. Our supportive and collaborative environment encourages bold ambitions and continuous learning so that everyone can grow and thrive.



 
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Working At Nestle

At Nestlé, we pride ourselves in providing training programs that prepare employees for the competitive and ever-changing business world. As the largest Nutrition, Health and Wellness Company in the world, we offer an environment that is diverse, challenging and supportive, including hands-on experience and real-world responsibilities that would serve as the springboard for a successful career. It’s because of our collaborative and open business environment that we have been ranked as the number one consumer food products company, in Fortune magazine’s annual survey of the World’s Most Admired companies, for eight consecutive years. Come join our talented world class team and thrive in a dynamic and supportive culture.

Main Purpose of Job

DEVELOPMENT AND ACTIVATION OF THE CATEGORY TEAM’S ADVANCED CAPABILITIES MODULAR TECHNOLOGY AND AUTOMATION PLAN – a primary responsibility of this position is to lead standardized technical processes and management of the data architecture for the modular data, along with development and maintenance of modular technology for the automation of relays. Additionally, this position will lead the team in utilization and leveraging of technology that will enable efficient modular processes and analysis. 

 

Key Responsibilities:

• The Sr. Category Analyst – Advanced Capabilities assists the Category Manager in developing and executing the transition and revision process
• Collaborate with the team and the customer to create Strategic Category plans by leveraging analytics, insights, and technology to identify actionable customer-specific insights to drive the transition/revision strategy.
•  Leadership of all POG Technology and Automation for transitions and revisions
• Assortment optimization modeling tool development, automation, maintenance and category team enablement
• Create, analyze and provide insights for customer weekly POS performance, transition/revision pre- vs post-performance, Test and Learn insights, and other similar customer data derived insights, as well as being knowledgeable on the category’s business intelligence reporting portfolio for ad hoc requests.
• CKB functionality, development and enhancements
• Manages accessibility, functionality, and extracts from transition/revision technology.
• Ownership of transition/revision technology development, enhancements and support of the category team
• ProSpace functionality, user setup, user training, and advanced capabilities resource for the category team
• Collaborates with Advisor Technologies team on data and data streams from and to transition/revisions related technologies

 

Key Experiences

• Professional experience supporting retailer Advisor or Captaincy planogram process is required, Target captaincy experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with ProSpace is required; CKB, Planogram Automation is preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree in STEM or related major preferred
• Expectation is to create business continuity related to POG technology and automation processes
• Strong technical skills in the areas of POG related programming, POG database architecture, POG process automation
• Advanced database, Excel, and related skills
• Understanding how to leverage ProSpace and related tools like SQL and CKB to enable automation and team efficiency
• Ability to unlock the power of technology to enable and elevate the team and create consistent, efficient modular and data related processes

 

Technical Skills

• Circana
• JDA Space Planning (ProSpace)
• Power BI
• Microsoft tools (ie Excel)
• POG Generator
• Power BI (or Tableau) / data visualization tools preferred

 

Salary: $90,418.54 to $128,016.00 per year

 

Bonus Eligibility: Yes

The pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills and abilities as well as geographic location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at top of range.

 

Nestlé offers performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Incentives and/or benefit packages may vary depending on the position. Learn more at

 

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