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Candidate Info
8
years in workforce
9
months at this job
BA
Journalism And Public Relations
Category Analyst
Applied project management and process improvement backgrounds to streamline efficiencies between Centura sites, Vendor Services team and Accounts Payable. Also worked to scrub the existing vendor master list, and develop training and standard operating procedures for Vendor Service team.
- Lead on 2016 1099misc project; development/execution of project plan, data aggregation and analysis; partnering with sites, IT, Controllers and trust officers to ensure successful implementation; successfully completed project two weeks ahead of deadline
- Functional area (Accounts Payable/ Vendor Services) team member on hospital/ ambulatory integration teams
- Development of project management process and tools specifically for corporate and site supply chain teams; implementation slated for May 2017
- Managed vendor master analysis, communication, change management and training processes for outsourcing of check printing to Viewpost; $750K savings annually
- Oversight of ~240 corporate procurement cards; developed new policy and procedure for card use, and conducted monthly audits to ensure user compliance to program rules. Compliance has risen from ~40% to 73% according to recent internal audit
- Provided support at various sites in supply chain as needed
- Acted as backup support for Vendor Services team (maintenance, setup, employee expense)
Candidate Info
8
years in workforce
4
years at this job
BS
Business Administration
MA
Business Administration
Category Analyst
- Developed customer selling stories improving regional category sales by 4.4% through detailed analysis in product and package assortment, feature ad activity, score carding, shopper insights, and syndicated data
- Created ad lift tool that helped facilitate pricing decisions, forecasting volume, and determining overlaps resulting in incremental ad weeks
- Developed store level tool to identify store level trends and match planograms to store preferences
- Automated national beverage analyzer tools resulting in 90% increased productivity
- Received awards for “Category Management Excellence” and “Category Data and Insights”
Candidate Info
13
years in workforce
1
year at this job
BS
Marketing
Category Analyst - Drug Channel
- Utilized Nielsen syndicated data and retailer point of sale data to determine drivers of category business results
- Identified an opportunity and spearheaded an initiative to add four feet of linear space for 140 stores, which resulted in an $850,000 sales gain
- Optimized coffee category for all my accounts in the drug channels. Those results help drive us to winning the "2004 Division of the Year" award
- Worked to create and implement all Convenience Food planograms for the third largest drug retailer
Candidate Info
16
years in workforce
3
years at this job
BS
Accountancy
Category Analyst
Category analytics supporting [company name]'s and Target's Cookie and Cracker and Fresh Bakery categories. Supported CSC's beverage (V8) and sauces (Prego, Pace) categories prior to move to snacks desk.
- Fall 2014 Graduate, Campbell's Breakthrough Leadership program
- Supported category managers and Target Snacks buyer with fact-based analysis and recommendations to grow Target's categories
- Developed monthly forecasts for Snacks buyer achieving variance within +/- 1% of actual results
- Supported internal teams with ad hoc sales and marketplace trends analysis
- Planogram validation and development
- Guest behavior analysis utilizing syndicated panel data and Target's Shopper Insights information
- Guest and store segmentation analysis
- Managed [company name]'s SOLYS database used by category and sales teams to analyze and develop insights about the business.
Candidate Info
8
years in workforce
4
years at this job
BA
Finance
Category Analyst
- Shared the same responsibilities as the Category Manager and Leader Category Buyer for $210 million of dairy products in assortment, promotional planning, inventory/slot management, procurement, and product development.
- Oversaw the RFP process for vendor purchase agreements and negotiated an additional $2.4 million dollars in COGS savings. Also negotiated promotional allowances, slotting fees, DC expansions funds, payment terms, reclamations allowances and food show fees.
- Managed vendor contract fill rates, consolidated vendor damage billings, milk crates returns/credits, food show activities and missed vendor income billings.
Candidate Info
15
years in workforce
4
years at this job
Microsoft Office 2013 (word, Excel, Power Point) & Quick Books
Communicatons
Bilingual Administrative Assistant
Category Analyst
Provide analytical support to the Category Management function. Conduct and maintain historical research on item performance for given categories.
- Collect, analyze, manipulate and format cost, price, margin, and other related product item data.
- Review and analyze information such as item movement, SKU assortment, sell-through; Report assessment of data and trends to Category Manager.
- Assist the Category Manager in the Category Review process by gathering, sorting and formatting internal, external Collaborate with Pricing as needed to ensure cost, price and other item information is correct within the various automated and data base systems.
- Review reports from the retail support centers and analyze information regarding service levels, inventory turns, and days of supply available. Inform Category Manager of any significant issues or potential supply problems.
- Compare trends within the category to the category's defined plan and goals.
Candidate Info
16
years in workforce
3
years at this job
HS
High School Diploma
Category Analyst
I am employed through Advantage Solutions and is the dedicated resource sitting in the [company name] office.
- I am responsible for building and maintaining an ongoing relationships with Walmart buyers and directors to provide them with category sales information to grow the business by choosing the right items for their modular assortment
- Work closely with Category Managers and Walmart buying team
- Draw modular planograms using ProSpace for the spirit category yearly, for the Walmart modular relay
- Effective time management to prioritize multiple projects and meet deadlines
- Created and maintained the trait monitoring and trait movement within stores at Walmart, for the spirits department
Candidate Info
9
years in workforce
11
months at this job
Undergraduate Studies
Category Analyst
- Responsible for accurate data and analysis in monthly and quarterly Channel/Category reports to support the Channel and Category Sales Development (CCSD) team in monitoring market, category and competitor performance.
- To highlight with summary areas of performance, rationale & potential future opportunities for growth.
- Proactively monitor and analyze performance and trends within category in order to identify, highlight issue and opportunities that supports the business to Sales team.
- Responsible to prepare accurate Category, Channel, Shopper, Customer data and analysis that will assist CCSD teams to develop shopper based "selling stories" for customers.
- Responsible to clean specific scan data to support the efficient uploading into the Browser.
Candidate Info
5
years in workforce
2
years at this job
BA
Philosophy
Category Analyst
- Coordinate with the category manager to implement strategic plans developed by sales and marketing for the market, client & customer team.
- Analyze and create marketing presentations for assigned clients
- Provide the integration of syndicated scanning data and/or demographic information into graphical presentations and/or category management business reviews
- Strategic thinking to accommodate various audiences
- Utilize syndicated data such as Nielson, IRI, & 84.51 to help tell the customer's story
- Collaborate with several teams to achieve vision
Candidate Info
8
years in workforce
2
years at this job
BS
Accounting
Category Analyst
- Partner with buyer of a national account in distribution, price, promotion, assortment, & space that drive sales of a $40+ million beer category through analysis syndicated data (IRI), Store level data, & depletion data.
- Analyze market trends that lead to recommendations of new strategies during store reset processes which increase distribution of [company name] by at least 10% in sales annually.
- Create weekly SWOT presentations of beer category where I collaborate with buyer to develop strategies to address any opportunities and/or obstacles of national account.
- Conducts post-analysis of promotions & features of beer category to assure the decrease in price during time period contributed to increased unit sales compared to off promotion and/or feature of brand(s) in category.
- Prepare Weekly, Monthly, & Ad Hoc high quality customized reports that reflect depletions, ACV, & Opportunity dollars for beer category, in addition to, monitor the productivity of [company name] across total convenience class of trade.
Candidate Info
10
years in workforce
4
years at this job
Category Analyst
Category Analyst working in partnership with Banner Merchandising, Replenishment, Retail Operations, Marketing, and Pricing for the success of the Condiment category resulting in positive sales growth year over year.
- Maintain vendor relationships as well as reviewing new product innovation and communicating category's strategic promotional plans.
- Assist with annual/bi-annual cost negotiations.
- Build promotional plans meeting the needs of Banner's commercial plans, co-marketing events, copient offers, vendor's volume requirements, and Entry Point proposals.
- Timely respond to all retail and customer's questions, concerns, and product requests.
- Fulfill the 23 week timeline of the category review process adding new items to the category assortment, discontinuing current items, and proper communication of all changes.
- Work with Shelf Merchandising on various plan-o-gram needs.
- Construct merchandising plans for both Food Lion and Hannaford.
- Analyze total and major category performance by running DSS reports.
- Monitor Delhaize category performance versus remaining market and AOC competitors using Nielsen Data.
- Meet category vendor allowance targets.
Candidate Info
5
years in workforce
2
years at this job
BA
Accounting
Category Analyst
- Create effective insight based selling stories for sales managers to obtain new account listings and grow existing accounts
- Ownership of monthly State of the Business reports for the US and Canadian markets
- Strong working knowledge of syndicated data with IRI and Nielsen
- Developed analytical tools to support sales staff, including a post promotional template and an account analysis template
- Engineered Irving’s first shelf space management analysis for a U.S. retailer
Candidate Info
4
years in workforce
1
year at this job
BA
Marketing
MA
Business Administration
Category Analyst
- Successfully launched new IRI Unify to entire organization in July 2016. Collaborated with sister companies Lindt and Ghirardelli on a weekly basis to ensure system alignment across all three brands.
- Develop insights using syndicated and loyalty data (IRI, 84.51, Rite Insight, Emnos) and proficient at interpreting market research data
- Create and maintain Planograms for all channels and accounts using JDA and EYC Symphony programs, and work closely with retailer contacts and account managers to address specific planogram changes, labels, and publishing issues
Candidate Info
12
years in workforce
5
years at this job
AS
Applied Science
Category Analyst
- Assists Directors with executing execution of marketing and promotional plans to drive total category sales and profits and market share
- Determined product discontinuance, product proximity, and space allocations
- Customized financial reports for promotional use and sales analysis to identify key trends and opportunities
- Analyzed consumer brand data for areas of opportunities and present solutions to upper management
- Determined product discontinuance, product proximity, and space allocations
- Ensured implementation of marketing events at store level by creating store bulletins communicating sales events, promotional displays to appropriate division contacts
- Tracked and monitored warehouse inventory to ensure accurate firm allocations to specific store needs
- Worked with outside vendors to coordinate large marketing campaigns and resolve any issues that develop
- Monitored category consumer trends and market demographics while preparing IRI scorecards on assigned category
Candidate Info
6
years in workforce
1
year at this job
BS
Marketing
Category Analyst
- Develop and deliver new brand distribution presentations for retailers, to display item opportunities and impactful insights to grow categories and increase Fiora and Oasis' Private Label market presence
- Prepare and deliver category reviews for retailers to evaluate shares, trends, and promotional impact, while providing assortment recommendations
- Review and analyze national category trends to identify potential opportunities for the marketing and product
- Utilize Nielsen Household, Spectra, and Mintel reports to provide insights on penetration, loyalty, basket size, and demographics
- Build reporting toolkits to distribute across the Analytics and Sales teams to monitor and review brand and item
Candidate Info
3
years in workforce
3
years at this job
BS
Business Administration
Category Analyst/analytical Space Tec
Analytical Space Technologist
- Coordinated Copient Offer process across Categories, Vendors and Banners.
- Created, analyzed, and distributed Excel reports daily.
- Pulled reports and contacted appropriate vendor representatives to help resolve store's distribution issues.
- Analyzed Plan O Grams for correct space allocation.
- Coordinated with the branch Marketing Manager and/or the CDM to implement strategic plans developed by sales and marketing for the market, hub, client or customer team.
- Analyzed and created business reviews and base marketing presentations for assigned clients, category management, and new client interviews.
- Analyzed consumer and market trends and recommended appropriate plan of action.
- Managed resource information for marketing areas that included AC Nielsen, IRI, and other syndicated data.
- Built Excel data reports and PowerPoint presentations to present to Harris Teeter, Food Lion, Lowes Foods/MDI, Ingles, BILO, Publix, Food City, Piggly Wiggly, and others.
Candidate Info
4
years in workforce
2
years at this job
HS
Food Industry Management
Business Administration
Category Analyst
Acosta Sales and Marketing
- Organize and analyze data from available data sources
- Provide insights to business managers and clients
- Build reports presenting data for sales, trends, inventory etc.
- Meet with clients on a regular basis
- Building Planogram proposals for clients using a space management program, Apollo
Candidate Info
5
years in workforce
2
years at this job
AS
Liberal Arts
BA
Marketing
Category Analyst
- Use Nielsen data to analyze category trends for both clients and customers.
- Assist in the creation of business reviews and presentations dealing with specific needs as they pertain to category management.
- Create merchandising proposals based on basic analysis of financial data at both the account and market level.
- Maintain and update all plan-o-grams for assigned categories.
Candidate Info
11
years in workforce
5
months at this job
BS
Business Administration
Category Analyst
- Setting up new vendors and uploading new product images ensuring accuracy and that standards are met
- Strategically attributing, re-titling, and identifying categories for products for audits
- Conducting a competitive analysis through an internal Amazon Research Project
- Researching trade shows and vendors to increase business opportunities
Candidate Info
9
years in workforce
1
year at this job
BS
Business Administration
MBA
Finance
Category Analyst-associate Category Merchant
- Provided a financial overview of Sales performances and financial results on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis. Ad Hoc Analysis provided a detailed explanation of processes and techniques as well as recommending actions for next steps.Teadiously worked to improve financial status of the business by reviewing and understanding results retrived from financial reports, marginalizing variance YOY or WOW.
- Developing Category Management strategies in companywide perspectives and assist in sales profitability of assigned category through analysis of performance data. Conducting post-promotional investigation to study marketing impact to the category and brand and recommending actions to management.
- Manage Online/Virtual Work-Flow process and the retail shopping experience by customizing products and creating new shopper experiences.
- Item Maintenance, SKU Management, Content management, and Retail, Contract & Direct Relationship Management for items listed under category classes & responsibilities.
- Running Daily, Weekly and Ad-Hoc Reports for leadership and management to get a clear view of the financial state of the department
- Assist in planning promotional activities and sales events for assigned Shipping and Self Service Categories as well as outsourced Printing and Business Essentials categories. Marketing initiatives such as creating coupons, Direct Mailers, Custom Catalogs and a number of different marketing vehicle management.
- Increased Savings of $90,000 over a 6 month period for a Pilot test regarding savings in Shipping Services.
- Implemented and managed the project plan to move over to having one major Shipping Carrier in 1,500 stores within a 3 month timeline. Increased Savings of 14 million over a three year period of time
- Online Asset Marketing Management (Landing Page, Bonus Page, Web Sliders, Business Cards sliders) for the Copy & Print Depot
- Accounting Reconciliations in the areas of inventory, cash, A/P and A/R resulting in findings of financial errors which represented over six figure re-statements of cost of goods sold decreases and gross profit increases previously not recognized.
Candidate Info
7
years in workforce
2
years at this job
BA
Art
Category Analyst
- Extensive use of NPD and Nielsen data to determine category drivers, industry trends, brand share and unit counts to support POG development for CPG industry categories
- Assist in development/design of interactive iPad-based executive dashboards to display sales metrics
- Excel and Powerpoint report generation for management use in annual national corporate sales meetings
Candidate Info
18
years in workforce
1
year at this job
BA
Marketing And Business Administration
MA
Administration And International Management
Category Analyst
- Analyze inventory, expiration and sales data to determine action plans to reduce shrink, improve item consolidation and establish sales and promotions Management of product life cycle
- Collaborate with the marketing and sales departments to promote new products and move inventory accordingly
- Handle vendor relationships for daily inventory requirements, product introduction and discontinuation as well as returns and claims.
Candidate Info
4
years in workforce
6
months at this job
BS
Economics
MS
Systems Engineering
MBA
Finance
Category Analyst
- Developer of the category analysis tool and the pricing elasticity tool.
- Automate different reports.
- Conduct various analysis using statistical software.
- Creator of different Indexes (Index Numbers Theory)
- Assortment Analysis
- Connect exogenous data (Census.gov)
Candidate Info
7
years in workforce
3
years at this job
BA
Animal Science
Category Analyst
- Partner with customers, supply chain, merchandising, and inventory planning and managed store business efficiently
- Analyze sales trends and ensure stores are filled with right products at right time
- Implement business strategies for improving sales
- Contribute in the cross-functional supply chain projects and reduce network costs
- Work with the sales teams and establish key relationships with customers
- Recorded details of client contacts and service history in Salesforce
- Enhance existing processes and facilitate a continuous flow on running products to stores
- Improve forecasting, purchasing and distribution methods within ERP system
- Team Lead for new ERP Implementation
Candidate Info
17
years in workforce
2
years at this job
BBA
Accounting
BBA
Finance
BBA
Marketing
Category Analyst, Global Procurement
- Prepare request for proposals and establish agreements for goods and services using strategic sourcing process
- Lead contract negotiations and execute agreements to define roadmaps for strategic initiatives
- Conduct spend analysis, supplier analysis, benchmark analysis and market/cost modeling for assigned categories
- Manage category sourcing strategies and lead cross functional teams through sourcing events
- Lead execution of category management to establish long term strategies with business units
- Establish relationships with business units to drive continuous improvement across supplier base
- Manage supplier performance and serve as focal point for supplier issue resolution
- Lead category management team in development and execution of supplier strategies
Candidate Info
9
years in workforce
7
months at this job
BA
Business Administration
Global Sourcing Category Analyst
- Executed Private Brand development for Dated Goods, Business Notebooks and Desk Accessories: prepared RFQs, analyzed cost models, negotiated with vendors, performed SKU setup, prepared Replenishment Sheets, reviewed product and packaging samples from pre-production to FAI and had detailed communication with vendors to ensure strict adherence to quality requirements, specs and production and shipping timelines
- Collaborated with Marketing, Design, Packaging and Product Engineering on products, packaging, and displays for design, layout, content, specs and quality inspection
- Coordinated with Replenishment and Logistics for PO Placement
- Ran reports in COGNOS to create sales trackers to analyze Dollars, Units and GM
Candidate Info
32
years in workforce
3
years at this job
BBA
Computer Information Systems
Computer Science
Category Analyst
- Analyze category sales, promotional and consumer data
- Develop promotional strategies with Category Managers
- Analyze industry trends
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