Senior Category Analyst

Position: Sr Category Analyst

Department: Sales

Reports To: Sr. Category Manager

Location: Irwindale

Pay Range: $80,000-$120,000

Groupe Bonduelle is a company that is making a positive impact

Groupe Bonduelle is the world leader in ready-to-use plant-rich food. By joining our company you will have an opportunity to make a positive and sustainable impact on yourself, others and the planet. You will play an active part in our mission to inspire the transition toward a plant-rich diet to contribute to people's well-being and planet health. 

Groupe Bonduelle Fresh Americas is the U.S. business unit of France based Groupe Bonduelle (BON.PA). We are the first business unit of Groupe Bonduelle to become a Certified B Corporation. We operate four processing facilities throughout the U.S. and employ nearly 3,000 Associates who focus on producing and bringing to market fresh vegetable products, prepared salads and plant-based meal solutions. 

Groupe Bonduelle is a 170 year old French family-owned company that has been at the forefront of plant rich food innovations since 1853. Our ready-to-use plant-rich food products are grown on 173,000 acres by our grower partners and marketed in nearly 100 countries. The company currently employees more than 12,000 Associates globally. 

Join us at Bonduelle Fresh Americas for an opportunity to advance your career in a culture that places people first. As a valued member of our company, you will have the opportunity to support our environmental and social initiatives to drive progress against our corporate social responsibility and B Corp certification ambitions. 

Position Summary:

As a Senior Category Analyst, a deep understanding of Category Management, data analytics, and a proven ability to turn insights into action are crucial to the success of a person in this role.

This position requires a customer focus, the ability to build strong relationships internally, cross-functionally, and externally. The Individual must possess critical and analytical skills that continuously ensure data integrity and maintain high standards while driving best-in-class solutions. Development and deployment of scorecards, planogram recommendations, category reviews, assortment tools, and new item trackers as well as helping to guide the team on new areas of opportunities will be critical for this role.

A successful candidate will be self-motivated, thrive in a team environment, ability to deal with a fast-paced complex environment as well as ambiguity.

What you will Do:

• Provide analytical insights for the produce category for BFA to identify trends and suggest strategies to maximize profitable sales growth.
• Partner closely with all internal parties to understand the latest insights and provide recommendations on category management strategic opportunities.
• Partner closely with Marketing to drive innovation budgets, planning, and targets
• Drive applicable insights with shelf design and item assortment recommendations
• Development and deployment of customer scorecards
• Manage 3rd party data provider (Spins/IRI) ensuring data integrity
• Development and maintenance of Customer Category Reviews
• Creation of New Item Trackers, benchmarking, and progress reports
• Maintain an awareness of customers' current activities such as promotions, new item launches, discontinued products, new product development, price changes, etc., and take necessary actions to execute the plans.
• Directly accountable for special projects assigned by the manager as they correlate to career development.
• Strong analytical skills that translate to actionable insights to further grow and develop the packaged salad category
• Ability to mine customer data to identify the category, segment, and brand trend opportunities
• Assist in the development of internal/external presentations to enhance selling opportunities
• Ability to effectively and efficiently present ideas in front of customer leadership/internal leadership

Minimum Qualifications:

• BA Degree
• Minimum 3-4 years experience in a similar position (preferably perishable/grocery)
• In-depth understanding of Category Management analytics, tools & process
• Expert knowledge of Syndicated Data (Nielsen/IRI, Spectra, Panel Data)
• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, Access, Outlook, and PowerPoint)
• Working knowledge of Google Apps (Gmail/slides/sheets)
• Consistently exhibits the aptitude to maintain focus while managing workload efficiently and effectively in an ever-changing environment.
• Ability to plan and execute assignments to completion with minimal supervision
• Self-Improving allowing for solid team development
• Demonstrate skills for positive conflict management
• Problem-solving skills and ability to use independent discretion for decision-making.
• Strong presentation, oral, and written communication skills.
• Strong Analytical skills - able to quickly identify trends, opportunities, and business solutions.
• Experience translating retailer POS and creating action plans
• Strong attention to detail in a fast-paced, demanding work environment.
• Strong organizational and follow up skills
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.