Category Analyst Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Category Analyst to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Develop the operational relationship with key sellers, brands and retailers;
- Proactively manage the accounts and implement scaling opportunities;
- Target merchandise and user levels to drive product performance;
- Develop expert understanding of business operations and current strategies and utilise insight to identify opportunities for growth;
- Partner with trading lead to develop annual strategy and quarterly commercial plan;
- Target merchandise and use levers to get products on site to drive performance;
- Collaborate with the National Accounts team to deliver compelling insight to the Grocery Retailers;
- The creation of category insights to support the building of compelling category sells;
- Provide actionable insights to improve Brand visibility in store;
- Providing compelling insights to the Shopper team for Trade releases;
- Interpretation and analysis of data, reviewing gaps, shelf space, trends, promotional activity etc to provide ongoing reports;
- Translation of analysis to meaningful insight, presenting findings to internal and external commercial teams building strong relationships;
- Owning the relationship with JDA to maintain our space planning systems;
- Maintenance our data systems including IRI and Kantar;
- Building and managing our portfolio of customer planograms.
Requirements:
- Strong ability to analyse data and draw actionable insight;
- Strong trading acumen and ability to operate in fast paced environment;
- Build partnerships and work collaboratively with others;
- Outstanding negotiation skills;
- Build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions;
- Learn through experimentation.