Sr Category Specialist (Advisor)

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If you're driven by the passion to do something meaningful that changes lives, Nestle is the place for you. Nestle USA is one of seven operating companies that make up Nestle's presence in the United States. We're in 97% of American homes, and as the leading food and beverage company, our goals are to continue to deliver quality food and beverage products, strengthen our local communities, and reduce our environmental and climate impact.

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The Sr Category Specialist (Advisor) supports Category Managers (CM) in the development and execution of the customer strategy strategic plan. A primary responsibility of this position is to partner with the CM in the development of Strategic Category plans in collaboration with the customer, internal insights and research resources. Additionally, this position will leverage advanced technical skills in cultivating advanced and predictive analytics as well as insights technology to unearth customer specific category specific insights that assist the CM in the modular relay strategy development.  This position also has ownership in the execution of the modular relay processes.

Responsibilities: 

• Reporting, Data Insights and Communication: Ability to create, analyze and provide insights for customer weekly pos performance, modular 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 business acumen and adhoc requests.
• Ownership of leveraging and supplying insights from wide variety of insights data platforms, such as Mastercard Test and Learn and supporting CM and category buying team on related adhoc requests
• Cultivating actionable insights through advanced/predictive analytics and statistical modeling, as well as opportunity gaps and white space project ownership 
• Driving success of Modular Relays from Strategy inception through Modular Submission
  • Strategy deep dive support of the CM related to analytics, insights, assortment optimization, and ownership of assortment and cluster recommendations modeling
  • Planogram generator automation expertise and ownership of rules development, testing and validation of automated mods, full relay generation of mods, mod validation processes
  • Documentation and updates to the 3rd party mod support instructions documentation 
  • Modular drawing and validation during relay
  • Pre-submission ownership of critical mass, warnings, and mod validation processes
  • Ownership of post modular analytics and relay analytics

Requirements:  

• Bachelor's Degree preferred 
• Previous experience with a category advisor team, business analytics or technical / analytical role 
• Professional experience outside of Category Management for a broader perspective is a plus 
• Strong technical skills required and expertise with advanced analytics, statistical and predictive modeling and coding language(s) a plus
• Advanced MS Excel and PowerPoint skills 
• Previous experience with Walmart customer data, IRI and/or other syndicated data to help create category stories and understand the customer preferred
• In the absence of the experiences above, a college degree focused in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science/Data Analytics, or Information Systems, and/or full time work experience in a technical/analytical field / functional area is strongly preferred 

Technical Skills

• Excel, PowerPoint
• The following skills are desirable:
  • VBA, SQL or other coding languages 
  • Power BI Power Query or Alteryx (latter is preferred)
  • Shiloh, or other similar RL database type tool
  • CKB, POG Generator, JDA
  • Nielsen/IRI
  • Numerator 
  • Luminate
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Mastercard Test and Learn 

Requisition ID:  275625 

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