Category Sales Analyst

Newell Brands is a leading consumer products company with a portfolio of iconic brands. The Category Sales Analyst will enable business transformation by creating data-driven insights and facilitating collaboration between business and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Run analysis, reports and more to better understand and improve sales, profitability and process efficiency for internal customers
• Draw actionable insights from varying data sets: consumption, market share, digital shelf, search, among many others
• Interpret complex datasets to tell stories and develop an organized set of conclusions/recommendations that can be easily digested by a broad audience
• Build partnerships with cross-functional teams to understand trends and opportunities for improvement, address customer needs and product pain-points
• Help build automated reporting through AI & BI platforms, visualizations, and analytical models
• Work with syndicated data sources and partner with technical teams to facilitate the consumption of data for APIs
• In partnership with other members of the team, collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Supply Chain to support/optimize innovation launches and promotional strategies
• Participation with sales results, annual planning, and forecasting processes
• Support the continued enhancement and evolution of Newell’s analytics capabilities to a best-in-class level
• Stay up to date on industry trends/innovations and drive new analytics initiatives that contribute to business goals

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in business, analytics
• 1-5 years of direct hands on-Retail/ CPG experience providing solutions in a large global company
• Skill with Microsoft Office applications for the creations of reports, presentations and analysis including Excel functions, formulas, pivot tables, Power Pivot and Power Query
• Strong business acumen with an analytical and problem -solving mindset
• Ability to operate in a matrixed team environment with deadlines & deliverable dates shifting around
• Intellectual curiosity for digging into the underlying story to be told with data
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate technical information to both a technical and non-technical audience
• Broad understanding of analytical processes including but not limited to data management, forecasting, optimization, predictive modeling and visualization
• Omnichannel experience preferred
• 1+ years of experience with Target business and expertise with systems such as Vender IQ, SOLYS, or BPD data is preferred
• Preferred experience with data modeling tools such as ChatGPT, PowerBI, and Tableau
• Familiarity with financial concepts preferred (promotional lift, profitability, inventory levels, etc.)
• Experience synthesizing disparate data sources to drive to logical, concise, and actionable conclusions, preferred
• Experience using POS Sales data alongside other data sources such as invoice, product margin, supply chain, web marketing, product, and shopper behavior metrics to provide a holistic program for retail growth, preferred

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