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 ~30% in office presence  

In this role you will:

Customer Category Management

Assist in the development and implementation of Customer specific Category Leadership Plans (CLP) and 4P tactical solutionsIdentify key business trends and synthesize for customer applicationIdentify opportunities and issues and support the Category Advisory team to implement solutions at retailProvide broad insights to support customer initiativesUnderstand the competitive marketplace in which JMS and customers operateCommunicate insights and learnings to the customer merchandising teamActively participate in retailer callsCollaborate 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 Degree4+ years of relevant Consumer Packaged Goods experience2+ years of Category Management experienceExperience leveraging Circana or AC Nielsen dataExperience building relationships with customers / retailersStrong analytical skills, problem solving and storytelling experienceAbility to translate insights into actionsStrategic mindset to help build and execute effective plansAbility to travel up to 15%

Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:

Luminate Charter experiencePlanogramming / Planogram software experience (JDA Prospace)Experience with Alteryx, Tableau and/or other data visualization tools

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