Category Management Sr Manager

Overview

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What a great time to join the Pepsi Co Walmart Inc. Customer Team:
We are partnering with Walmart & Sam's Club in a more collaborative, strategic & transformational manner than ever, investing our time and energy in data, analytics, and future‑forward projects focused on growing categories essential to Walmart, Sam's Club and Pepsi Co.

The Senior Advisor role is an essential position on the best‑in‑class Pepsi Co Advisor Team, supporting our merchant partners  opportunity is available due to promotion within our ~40‑person team. The Walmart Senior Category Manager (Senior Advisor) leads in the development and execution of the Customer Category strategic plan, collaborating with the merchandising team, our internal Advisor team, Pepsi Co Shopper insights, and a wide array of analytic and research resources.

This position will leverage advanced technical skills and resources to cultivate advanced and predictive analytics and bring forward customer‑specific, category‑specific insights underpinning modular relay strategy and macro space recommendations. 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.

• Own Customer engagement and Category Advisorship at Walmart
• Conduct detailed category decompositions and reporting leveraging appropriate information resources to include:
  Scintilla Channel Performance and Shopper Behavior, Circana POS, Circana Panel, and Custom Shopper Research to drive Insights to Action
• Provide insights on emerging shopper cohorts and market trends through reporting and ad hoc analysis
• Support Walmart buying team by utilizing Pepsi Co capabilities to drive category vision, deliver assortment, space, merchandising performance, and macro space analytics
• Lead and train Category Analyst in category management initiatives including business analysis, insights development, and modular processes
• Ensure continual training and development to enhance business knowledge and analytical skills
• Communicate insights and best in class results to divisional/corporate personnel, as well as, other Category Management team members
• Ownership of the success of Modular Relays from Strategy inception through Modular Submission
• Leading the development of the modular relay strategy deep dive
• Developing demand and store trait clustering, and assortment optimization modeling and recommendations
• Analyzing insights, data, and analytics to derive merch flow recommendations
• Leveraging insights to cultivate test store recommendations
• Presentation of Strategy deep dive to the customer
• Supporting the Template Mod generation for the DMM VP Buyer Walkthroughs
• Leadership in Planogram automation strategy and execution of full modular generation
• Coordination and participation in modular draw process, modular validation, sending status updates and coordinating modular review with…