Senior Analyst, Category Management; Space Planning

What Category Management contributes to Cardinal Health

Marketing is responsible for assessing customer needs, market conditions and competition to inform business strategy. Marketing implements the strategy through developing, commercializing and monitoring the appropriate products and services.

Category Management is responsible for cross functional collaboration that helps to deliver sales, profitability and inventory productivity goals by capitalizing on retail marketplace and shopper trends in designated categories. Manages and optimizes supplier relationships and product portfolio to drive financial results, increase market share and exceed customer expectations.

The Consumer Health Space Planning team supports retail independent pharmacy customers by translating category strategy, product performance, shopper trends, and physical merchandising requirements into actionable planograms. The team connects data, assortment decisions, and retail execution to help customers use front-end shelf space effectively while supporting sales, profitability, inventory productivity, and consistent customer experience. Through disciplined planogram development, item data stewardship, reset execution, and cross-functional partnership, Space Planning enables timely updates as market conditions, product availability, and category strategies change.

As a Senior Analyst, Category Management focused on Space Planning, this role develops, maintains, analyzes, and distributes Consumer Health planograms that optimize front-end space for independent retail pharmacy customers. The Senior Analyst partners with Category Management, Planning and Analytics, Inventory Management, Marketing, Account Management, Internal Sales, and other cross-functional stakeholders to execute the annual reset calendar, maintain planogram and item-data accuracy, and respond to evolving business and customer needs.

The role applies category management, retail merchandising, and space-planning expertise to evaluate performance, develop recommendations, resolve technical and merchandising issues, and deliver accurate, executable solutions with sound judgment and independence.

• Developing and Maintaining Planograms:
  Create, revise, version, and publish planograms for assigned Consumer Health categories using the approved space-planning platform, ensuring product placement, shelf fit, facings, adjacencies, and merchandising standards are accurately represented. Perform quality assurance before publication, including validation of item placement, dimensions, facings, capacity, assortment, shelf fit, identifiers, images, versioning, and supporting documentation
• Executing the Reset Calendar:
  Manage assigned work against the annual category reset calendar, including strategy inputs, sample and image readiness, line-review decisions, and assortment changes
• Translating Category Strategy into Shelf Execution:
  Partner with Category Managers to convert assortment decisions, category strategies, shopper needs, market trends, and product priorities into clear and executable shelf layouts
• Maintaining Product and Planogram Data:
  Capture, validate, and maintain item dimensions, images, identifiers, descriptions, hierarchy, status, and other attributes required for accurate planogram production and downstream reporting
• Conducting Space to Sales Analysis:
  
  Use internal sales, inventory, item, customer, and syndicated market information to evaluate product productivity, space allocation, assortment opportunities, and potential planogram changes
• Monitoring Inventory Readiness:
  
  Review planogram item availability and inventory reporting, identify risks to planogram release or customer execution, and coordinate with Category Management,…