Category Strategy & Insights Analyst: Elevate SKU Space

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401k savings plan

Dental and Vision

Paid time off

Flexible work arrangements

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Kraft Heinz is seeking an Analyst, Category Strategy & Insights to transform customer, syndicated, POS, and shopper data into actionable recommendations across assortment, shelving, pricing, and promotion. You will build category roadmaps and support reset readiness through space productivity and planogram-informed guidance.

Join a team focused on delivering clear, audience-appropriate insights and collaborating with customer teams to influence commercial decisions in a dynamic retail

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated analytical capability with large datasets and defensible insights.
• Experience with retail POS, syndicated, and/or panel data and related analytical approaches (Circana, Numerator, Power BI).
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel for data manipulation and analysis.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including storytelling in PowerPoint.
• Strong organizational, time management, and prioritization skills; able to meet deadlines.
• Ability to adapt to evolving business needs in a new role.

Responsibilities

• Deliver routine reporting and ad hoc analyses using customer, syndicated, and panel data to identify trends and opportunities in category performance.
• Analyze shopper behavior and category dynamics, including purchase frequency, buy rate, penetration, cross-shop, leakage, and shopper demographics.
• Integrate multiple data sources to develop a holistic view of category and shopper performance.
• Translate complex analyses into clear, customer-ready storytelling and insights using PowerPoint and Power BI.
• Develop recommendations on distribution, assortment, shelving/space productivity, merchandising, pricing, and promotion.
• Partner with customer teams and internal stakeholders to understand business questions, align on objectives, and deliver insights that inform commercial decisions.
• Contribute to team capability building by aggregating best practices and supporting repeatable reporting and insight frameworks.
• Manage multiple projects and timelines with discipline; prioritize to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

Analytical capability

Power BI

Excel

Data visualization

Communication

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Circana

Numerator

Power BI

Job description

Kraft Heinz is seeking an Analyst, Category Strategy & Insights to transform customer, syndicated, POS, and shopper data into actionable recommendations across assortment, shelving, pricing, and promotion. You will build category roadmaps and support reset readiness through space productivity and planogram-informed guidance.

Join a team focused on delivering clear, audience-appropriate insights and collaborating with customer teams to influence commercial decisions in a dynamic retail