Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Advantage Solutions is a sales and marketing agency specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management, and marketing services. The Category Insights Analyst provides reporting, forecasting, sales planning, pricing recommendations, and post-promotional analysis for regional clients, while analyzing consumption and marketplace data to deliver actionable insights and support business reviews and merchandising initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Reporting: Utilize various data sources, including consumption sales data and shopper insights to provide business insights that supports sales in delivering against ADV and client business objectives / core KPI’s for specified region
- Trade & Pricing: Contribute to the development of retail trade & promotional pricing recommendations, supporting the Sales Team with in-depth pre- and post-promotional analysis. Insights and learnings to enhance trade effectiveness and efficiency for ADV Clients
- Marketplace Expertise: Analyze market trends, competitive activities and channel shifts to act as SME for regional marketplace. Develop expertise on each retailer in assigned geography
- Business Reviews: Assist the Category Analytics & Insights Manager in the development of line reviews, business overviews and selling stories to help support ADV client selling opportunities
- Collaborate on Merchandising: Collaborate with Space Management team to develop best in class planograms to advocate for shelving standards to achieve our client’s objectives
Skills
- Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree
- Experience Requirements: Less than 1 year experience in relevant field
- Travel requirement: No travel requirements
- Strong analytics, interpretive, and problem-solving skills with ability to turn data into actionable insights
- Working knowledge of syndicated scan data and business reporting applications
- Experience using data visualization tools
- Ability to communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner
- Strong Excel skills including pivot tables and v-lookups; aptitude for learning relational databases and multi-dimensional data tools
- Typically, requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time (66%+ each day), ability to hear telephone, ability to enter data on a computer and may require the ability to lift up to 10lbs
- Professional certification in category management a plus
- Consumer Packaged Goods experience preferred
Benefits
- Remote
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