Category Analyst - Retail at The Coca-Cola Company

This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: United States, New York (USA) Location(s... United States of America City/Cities: Remote Travel Required: 00% - 25% Relocation Provided: No Job Posting End Date: October 10, 2024 Shift:

Job Description

Summary: BODYARMOR Sports Nutrition is a fast-paced, dynamic environment where brand builders work together with the goal of becoming innovative game-changers in the world of sports and active hydration. Extreme passion and teamwork are the essentials of being a successful member of the BODYARMOR Sports Nutrition team – which consists of BODYARMOR and POWERADE brands. BODYARMOR Sports Nutrition exudes an entrepreneurial culture backed by the resources and insights of one of the world’s most iconic companies, The Coca-Cola Company, which acquired BODYARMOR in 2021. This unique environment gives employees the ability to move quickly, exceed expectations, develop valuable relationships, and have fun while we work to achieve our goal of becoming #1 in Sports Hydration. BODYARMOR is looking for a Category Analyst – Retail to join our team. The role is responsible for supporting channel specific selling strategy and category management at BODYARMOR Sports Nutrition. This role leverages our various knowledge sources and systems to provide robust and fact-based insights that influence decision making at our largest regional customers. The ultimate objective of this role is to be a strategic partner to Account Managers by providing them the strategic guidance, tools and support they need to overachieve against their sales goals. Reports to Sr Category Manager – Retail.

Responsibilities

Strategic Partnership and Leadership • Strategic participant and major player in regional account annual line review objective setting, meeting preparation, deck development and in-person meeting participation. Provide fact-based thought leadership to influence strategic and tactical decisions for customer planning and execution. • As part of meeting preparation, find compelling fact-based insights to support a story line culminating in recommendations that highlight benefits for the retailer and shopper while supporting BASN corporate objectives. This process will leverage a wide variety of insights tools including scan consumption, shopper panel, depletions, assortment/planogram software and proprietary CATMAN tools. • As part of meeting preparation, lead process to maximize category and BASN sales through assortment optimization, days on hand analysis and regression modeling culminating in a retailer specific planogram recommendation reflecting look of success • This position plays a critical role during key customer meetings not only as the primary presenter, but to bring a category first mentality and made recommendations based on best practices from similar customers on how BASN helped retailers achieve their goals Category Analytics • Proactively & consistently analyze key customer performance and identify execution gaps, sub-par item performance, post-promo evaluation and category dynamic shifts • Lead process to identify retailer specific pricing and promotional opportunities to ensure our everyday shelf prices are compelling to shoppers and that trade spend is being spent as efficiently as possible to maximize brand sales and trial • Own and evolve customer specific reporting for CATMAN team to leverage as part of analytical process to glean insights and make recommendations to customers Team Leadership • Provide leadership and direction to ensure company strategy and plan is executed. • Lead training sessions to enable our sales force to be more comfortable selling with advanced analytics. Requirements • This is a remote role that requires residence in New York Metro or Atlanta Metro area. • 1-2 yrs experience in sales, category management, shopper insights & strategy • Team player with exceptional leadership, communication and management qualities • Demonstrated capacity for big picture, strategic thinking, creative thinking and attention to detail • Expert technical skills – Scan systems, Panel systems, trade funds management software, excel, powerpoint, word, etc. • Field sales experience a plus • BA/BS degree required Skills: organization, Strategic Selling Pay Range: $86,300 - $104,500 Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered. Our Purpose and Growth Culture: We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. When we collect your personal information as part of a job application or offer of employment, we do so in accordance with industry standards and best practices and in compliance with applicable privacy laws. This offer from "The Coca-Cola Company" has been enriched by Jobgether.com and got a NaN% flex score Apply Job!