BU Sales & Strategy Analyst — Category Growth & Insights

Kraft Heinz; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 78,000 - 97,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraft Heinz is seeking an Analyst, BU Sales & Strategy to enable growth in category sales and provide objective category expertise. You will develop insights-based stories, support sell-in, forecasts, and track performance for seasonal and new product initiatives.

Location: Chicago area. The role emphasizes data analysis, reporting, and collaboration with field sales teams to optimize pricing, merchandising, and shelving recommendations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field.
• Experience in business, sales, data analytics, retail or another related field.
• Excellent organizational skills, self-starter and ability to meet deadlines and balance competing priorities.
• Accurate and timely reporting with drive to improve and streamline processes.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency in Excel & PowerPoint required.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business performance (sales, distribution, merchandising, innovation speed to shelf, velocity, broker performance and others) to support weekly and monthly BU Sales routines and communicate in routines.
• Support development and execution of the Annual Operating Plan for respective categories in conjunction with the Business Unit Sales team.
• Support new product innovation launches by working closely with manager and field sales teams on sell-in, forecasting, and performance tracking processes.
• Support development of category and brand strategies for pricing, distribution, shelving, and merchandising. Provide recommendations for successful implementation and execution based on data analysis.
• Leverage insights resources and utilizes retail analytics from multiple data sources to support category leadership and 'sell stories'.
• Provide analyses of various data sources to assist in effective selling story development.
• Analyze data and maintain periodic reports & presentations for evaluation by the category team.
• Support communication and execution of key brand initiatives to the field sales teams through multiple channels (internal sales news portal, routine field sales connect meetings, etc.).
• Run forecasting and tracking of seasonal products.
• Run communication of managing waste risks by category.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Self-starter

Deadline-driven

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Kraft Heinz is seeking an Analyst, BU Sales & Strategy to enable growth in category sales and provide objective category expertise. You will develop insights-based stories, support sell-in, forecasts, and track performance for seasonal and new product initiatives.

Location: Chicago area. The role emphasizes data analysis, reporting, and collaboration with field sales teams to optimize pricing, merchandising, and shelving recommendations.