Category Analyst - Albertsons & HEB

Job Summary

The Category Analyst role, supporting 2 key Food customers, Albertsons & HEB, is a key role within the Sanofi Category Management team, with responsibility for tracking, understanding and diagnosing business performance, delivering ongoing reporting needs, supporting assortment & shelving recommendations and providing insight in support of category selling objectives.  The role is highly collaborative, providing support across all Sanofi’s categories and working closely with other members of the Category Management team, the Account Management team, Sales Strategy, and the broader Commercial Strategy team.  The Category Analyst has a passion for data-driven insight and customer partnerships, helping to build compelling category sales stories that drive alignment with the retailer to generate mutual growth opportunities. 

Job Responsibilities

• Leveraging syndicated data to deliver weekly and monthly reporting dashboards, maintaining and evolving the dashboards as needed over time

• Delivery of weekly POS reporting with supporting insight

• Tracking business trends and impact of changes to Assortment, Merchandising, Pricing and Shelving activities to identify issues and opportunities

• Lead development of line review content for all categories, in partnership with National Account Manager and Sales Strategy

• Development of selling presentation content for the sales team, from a category perspective

• Development of data-driven insight-based recommendations by leveraging retailer, syndicated consumption data, loyalty data & consumer panel data

• Development of customer-specific Assortment, Merchandising, Pricing and Shelving (AMPS) recommendations

• Providing Sales Team with analytical support to develop insights into category issues and opportunities

• Bring creative thinking and a solution mindset to the team, proactively identifying opportunities for growth

• Leveraging Assortment Management tools to conduct assortment analysis by category and brand

• Builds planograms and analyses shelving opportunities, leveraging virtual reality software

• Partner across the Category Management team to share best practices and learnings

• Perform other ad hoc duties as required

• Live into Sanofi’s Play to Win culture

Job Qualifications

• Minimum of 1-3 years of proven delivery in CPG, preferably within OTC/Healthcare/Personal Care.

• Strong business acumen; comfortable in analytics and highly proficient in Excel and Powerpoint

• Excellent problem solving skills, with the ability to identify potential solutions and communicate them effectively

• Experience utilizing Nielsen or IRI syndicated data, customer loyalty data and consumer panel data, with the ability to analyze and evaluate several sources of data to develop actionable insights

• Food Channel experience preferred

• Ability to bring outstanding interpersonal skills (including excellent oral and written communication), strong problem-solving skills to any discussion with colleagues and/or customers

• You are a learner - always seeking to improve yourself, your team, and the world around you

• You thrive on direct, honest, and supportive communication

• You are always thinking about how to help the teammates around you excel

• Extremely organized, dependable, and self-motivated with the ability to excel in a fast-paced environment

• B.A./B.S. required

This role will work remotely in the US. Qualified candidate must currently be located in the US. There is no visa sponsorship available for this position. 

As a healthcare company and a vaccine manufacturer, Sanofi has an important responsibility to protect individual and public health. All US based roles require individuals to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of your job responsibilities.

According to the CDC, an individual is considered to be “fully vaccinated” fourteen (14) days after receiving (a) the second dose of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, or (b) the single dose of the J&J vaccine. Fully vaccinated, for new Sanofi employees, is to be fully vaccinated 14 DAYS PRIOR TO START DATE.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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