Walmart Category Advisor

Zenith Home Corp; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Employee discounts

Job summary

Zenith Home Corp. seeks a data-driven Category Manager to lead, develop, and maintain category initiatives for Wal-Mart. You will track sales trends, perform market analysis, and influence modular process decisions by delivering actionable insights.

Responsibilities include analyzing planograms, optimizing assortments, and building trusted partnerships with buyers to drive sales and productivity across key categories.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• CPG experience necessary.
• Experience in sales, analytics and planning, category management, or brand management.
• Strong data analysis and presentation skills.
• Proficient use of MS Office.
• Strong database management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop and maintain category management initiatives for key categories at Wal-Mart.
• Identify and track current and future sales trends and express as market share results relative to the marketplace.
• Identify and implement sales and customer analysis to influence decision making in the modular process.
• Analyze planograms to optimize assortment using productivity, pricing, promotions, product, or placement data.
• Build and maintain planograms for buyers to maximize sales and productivity.

Skills

Quantitative interpretation

Qualitative interpretation

Data analysis

MS Office

Communication

Time management

Relationship building

Presentations

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Blue Yonder/JDA/Space Planning Software

Job description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead, develop and maintain category management initiatives for key categories at Wal-Mart
• Identify and track current and future sales trends and express as market share results relative to the appropriate portion of the marketplace.
• Identify and implement sales and customer analysis to help influence decision making in the modular process
• Analyze planograms to optimize assortment based on productivity, pricing, promotions, product, or placement utilizing third-party data sources, such as Yipitdata or the accounts own POS systems
• Build, develop and maintain planograms for the buyers that maximize sales and productivity and take advantage of business strategies for account.
• Complete a quarterly and full season analysis of Spring and Fall Planogram sets and Industry trends; make recommendations to Wal-Mart buyers to improve sales and space to sales performance.
• Build competitive awareness of items in the market, both online and in stores through in store visits and use of market data platforms
• Become trusted partner and expert for the buyer and function as advisor on key categories to create and implement strategic recommendations on improvements in selling strategies for the account.
• Ad hoc reports and requests to support the team
• Maintain the confidentiality of Wal-Mart category and competitive data.

Requirements

• Experience with Wal-Mart and their Scintilla systems required. Charter
• Blue Yonder/JDA/Space Planning Software preferred.
• Bachelor's Degree preferred.
• CPG (Consumer Product Goods) experience necessary.
• Experience in sales, analytics and planning, category management, or brand management
• Demonstrated ability in analyzing data, formulating recommendations, and developing presentations.
• Must have Quantitative and Qualitative interpretation abilities
• Proficient use of MS Office is required.
• Strong computer skills related to database management are required.
• Must be able to communicate effectively (verbal, written, and presentation skills), manage time effectively, build relationships across disciplines, and independently analyze data and use judgement to extract key information and develop recommendations
• Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment is essential, with a high degree of flexibility and adaptability.

Mayzon offers a competitive health care benefits package, a 401(k) plan, paid vacations and holidays, employee discounts, among other fringe benefits.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Drug Free Workplace