Category & Channel Analytics Specialist (Hybrid)

CREO GROUP; Troy (MI); Hybrid; USD 72,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Paid time off

Holidays

401(k) retirement plan with company-m

Job summary

CREO Group in Troy, MI is seeking a Category & Channel Analyst to support Sales and Category Management with reporting and data tooling. The role builds Power BI dashboards, standardizes retailer POS data, and owns Salsify product information management, partnering with IT to ensure reliable data connections.

You will translate business questions into actionable insights, develop repeatable reporting processes, and help stakeholders understand performance trends across channels and retailers,

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in commercial reporting or analytics supporting sales, category management, retail, or related teams.
• Strong hands-on Power BI report development and visualization skills; advanced Excel, including PivotTables, lookup and conditional formulas, and Power Query.
• Experience cleaning, transforming, and combining inconsistent data files into repeatable reporting processes.
• Excellent listening and requirements discovery skills, with the ability to translate loosely defined needs into useful solutions and incorporate feedback efficiently.
• Understanding of revenue, units, gross margin, pricing, and product mix; strong attention to accuracy and ability to manage competing priorities.
• PIM administration, Salsify, major-retailer POS, and consumer products or manufacturing experience preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Understand business needs. Listen carefully, ask thoughtful questions, and clarify how users will apply the information.
• Translate ambiguous requests into practical solutions, using early prototypes to confirm direction and recommending useful context beyond the initial request.
• Support Sales and Category Management. Develop customer, channel, category, and SKU reporting covering shipments, POS, revenue, margin, pricing, promotions, and product mix.
• Enable comparisons against prior periods and plans, and support customer line reviews, assortment assessments, and business planning.
• Build effective reporting. Create and maintain Power BI reports using established datasets and models, alongside flexible Excel analyses.
• Design clear charts, tables, filters, and drilldowns that help users explore performance independently.
• Normalize retailer POS data. Build repeatable processes to ingest varying retailer Excel files, standardize fields and reporting periods, and map retailer items to CREO products for Power BI reporting.
• Validate completeness and accuracy, resolve exceptions, and document retailer-specific definitions.
• Own Salsify business administration. Maintain product attributes, hierarchies, and identifiers; configure queries, filters, and exports; and coordinate data-quality improvements with information owners.
• Partner with IT and providers to ensure system connections work reliably.
• Advance data capabilities. Identify missing data, define requirements, advocate with IT for prioritized additions, and validate delivered functionality.
• Improve adoption and reliability. Reconcile outputs, investigate discrepancies, document definitions, and streamline recurring reporting. Gather feedback and help users apply the tools effectively.

Skills

Power BI report development

Advanced Excel

Requirements discovery

Listening and communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Salsify

PIM administration

Job description

CREO Group in Troy, MI is seeking a Category & Channel Analyst to support Sales and Category Management with reporting and data tooling. The role builds Power BI dashboards, standardizes retailer POS data, and owns Salsify product information management, partnering with IT to ensure reliable data connections.

You will translate business questions into actionable insights, develop repeatable reporting processes, and help stakeholders understand performance trends across channels and retailers,