Category Leadership Advisor

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At Nestle USA, we're all working towards the same goal - to delight and deliver for our consumers. With a rich portfolio of beloved brands, including DiGiorno, Toll House, and Coffee mate, in 97% of U.S. households, we have a unique opportunity - and responsibility - to be there for every moment in our consumers' lives.

Joining Nestle means becoming part of an inclusive workplace that inspires innovation, encourages strategic thinking and creativity, and celebrates your achievements. No matter where you work within the organization, you are empowered to challenge the status quo, embrace risk-taking, and pioneer new ideas. Our supportive and collaborative environment encourages bold ambitions and continuous learning so that everyone can grow and thrive.

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The Category Leadership Manager (Advisor) leads in development and execution of the Customer Category Strategic Plan in collaboration with the customer, internal insights, and research resources. This position will leverage advanced technical skills and resources in cultivating advanced and predictive analytics as well as their team's access to insights technology to unearth customer specific category specific insights that provide the necessary building blocks to cultivate the modular relay strategy. This position also leads and has ultimate ownership of the strategic thought leadership recommendations through optimized assortment for the modular relay processes, and ownership of the modular relay process.

Responsibilities:
* Reporting, Data Insights and Communication

* Primary point of contact for the customer buying team members

* Ownership of relationship with the insights team to drive customer specific insights projects and custom and/or primary research
* Leadership in identifying actionable insights through advanced analytics related to opportunity gaps and white space projects
* Ownership of the success of Modular Relays from Strategy inception through Modular Submission
o Leading the development of the modular relay strategy deep dive
o Developing demand and store trait clustering, and assortment optimization modeling and recommendations
o Analyzing insights, data, and analytics to derive merch flow recommendations
o Leveraging insights to cultivate test store recommendations
o Leadership in Planogram automation strategy and execution of full modular generation
o Coordination and participation in modular draw process, modular validation, sending status updates and coordinating modular review with the buying team
o Ensuring the accuracy of the modulars and the integrity of ensuring the relay strategy is being executed
o Generating and communicating the modular matrix information to the buying team

Requirements:
* Bachelor's Degree preferred
* Previous experience as a Walmart category advisor
* Professional experience outside of Category Management for a broader perspective is a plus
* Strong technical skills required and expertise with advanced analytics
* Advanced MS Excel and PowerPoint skills
* Previous experience with Walmart customer data, Circana and/or other syndicated data to help create category stories and understand the customer

Technical Skills:
* Excel, PowerPoint
* JDA Space Planning (ProSpace)
* Shiloh, or other similar database type tool

Preferred Technical Skills:
* CKB, POG Generator
* Circana/Nielsen
* Power BI/Tableau
* Power BI Power Query or Alteryx
* Scintilla
* Microsoft Teams
* Mastercard Test and Learn

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To our veterans and separated service members, you're at the forefront of our minds as we recruit top talent to join Nestle. The skills you've gained while serving our country, such as flexibility, agility, and leadership, are much like the skills that will make you successful in this role. In addition, with our commitment to an inclusive work environment, we recognize the exceptional engagement and innovation displayed by individuals with disabilities. Nestle seeks such skilled and qualified individuals to share our mission where you'll join a cohort of others who have chosen to call Nestle home.

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