Senior Analyst, Category Leadership

Description

At Lactalis in the USA, we’re committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive—whether you’re just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values—Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

Lactalis Heritage Dairy, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Senior Analyst, Category Leadership. This position is based in Bentonville, AR.

The Senior Analyst, Category Leadership plays a key role in delivering best-in-class category analytics, assortment strategies, and shelving recommendations for Walmart.

This position will leverage customer data, including Scintilla, as well as syndicated data sources such as Circana, to uncover consumer insights, identify trends, and translate data into actionable recommendations. The Senior Analyst will also support the development and automation of the planogram drawing process through innovative tools such as ShelfIQ, helping to enhance efficiency and improve the quality of category solutions.

The ideal candidate is intellectually curious, analytically driven, and eager to explore new technologies and ways of working. This individual will develop deep expertise in Walmart’s internal processes and use that knowledge to support best-in-class assortment decisions and store-level planograms.

The Senior Analyst will also help establish and scale best practices across the Category Leadership team, contributing to innovative approaches that strengthen the team’s capabilities and position it as a leader in retail analytics and category management.

This role offers an opportunity to combine data, technology, consumer insights, and retail strategy to influence meaningful category and merchandising decisions.

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Lead the receipt, management, and prioritization of planogram requests.
• Develop POG proposals based on available data and strategic initiatives.
• Update Cheese and Entertaining POGs for retailers based on insights and recommendations from Category Reviews.
• Review data available in space planning software to ensure POG versions align with retailer compliance metrics, including days of supply, case pack requirements, assortment progressions, and other key measures.
• Utilize tables and data available in space planning software to provide recommendations that improve category performance.
• Maintain a current and accurate product image library…