Walmart Advisor - Category Leadership Manager
Conagra Brands is a leading food company dedicated to innovation and building impactful relationships. As a Walmart Advisor, you will enhance the Advisor relationship with Walmart by providing consultative category management and data-driven recommendations to drive category growth.
Responsibilities
- Deliver weekly category performance reporting and communication to the buyer
- Conduct monthly business reviews translating data from multiple sources into narrowly defined, immediate business opportunities with action plans
- Gather and interpret competitive market intelligence (from Wal-Mart's perspective)
- Participate in strategic dialogue with teams including Category Management, Marketing and Operations
- Collaborate with our Business Development, Consumer Insights, and Category Managers to share best practices and build our insights data base. (Exclusive of confidential information)
- Use Spectra, IRI, Prospace, Retail Link, Scintilla and other consumer-centric data tools to build custom analyses and develop store of the community opportunities on an everyday and seasonal basis
- Manage all aspects of modular development projects by driving and supporting the core line review process, new item recommendation and distribution, traiting, spacing, on-shelf merchandising, POG creation, DC Item Matrices and Category Buyer communication
- Provide post promotional analysis for important events to include selling highlights, opportunities, price point effectiveness and recommendations for improvement going forward
- Challenge other's perspectives when they are counter-sync with the Category Buyer's goals or known facts of the business
- Develop ad hoc reports to help support the business
Skills
- Bachelor's degree required
- Experience as a Category Advisor for Walmart within CPG industry, including 1-3 years minimum experience with the Walmart Modular Process – end-to-end technical abilities across all facets of the modular process from preparing preliminary category strategies to drawing modulars (uploading data, customizing at store cluster level, presenting recommendations to merchants)
- Experience with Excel (can perform complex functions), PowerPoint and JDA Pro Space
- Experience with Syndicated data and customer POS sources (i.e. Retail Link, Spectra and Circana data)
- Experience linking seemingly disparate pieces of information
- Experience presenting ideas and concepts to groups of varying levels within and outside of the organization
- Experience contributing and influencing in a cross-functional matrix environment
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare plans
- Wellness incentive program
- Mental wellbeing support
- Fitness reimbursement
- Bonus incentive opportunity
- Matching 401(k)
- Stock purchase plan
- Career development opportunities
- Employee resource groups
- On-demand learning
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid-time off
- Parental leave
- Flexible work-schedules
- Volunteer opportunities
Company Overview
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