Category Management Analysis

Job Description

Job Description:

Against our Destination #1 strategy, we are adopting a Category First approach to winning in market. We also want to promote a culture of data-led decision making, so ensuring that all One Demand associates have access to the best category data and insights is critical to us delivering our ambition.

With the ever-changing retailer landscape and evolution in technology, it is more important than ever that we find new ways to do this more efficiently, more effectively and enable access to more people. The purpose of this role is to enable just that – getting the best insights, from the best tools to enable the best insights and decisions.

Success in the role will require problem solving, new ways of thinking, comfort with data and generating insights, simplifying the complex and collaborating with others to deliver the optimal suite of tools, reports and insight sharing. Ultimately, this will enable greater insight, greater thought leadership, and greater customer and associate engagement.

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Working in partnership with data agencies and cat strat function to ensure quality and integrity of data being used in reporting and decision making.
• Manage and maintain internal reporting solutions to enable periodic updates on category performance and key drivers of this.
• Update key periodic reports and optimise the sharing of these reports and insights to maximise their impact on decision making across functions and through the S&OP cycle.
• Partner with category strategy and development teams to build efficiencies into category and market reporting and build/optimise suite of critical reports.
• Enhance category team reporting solutions to embrace digital solutions and enable greater insights generation vs data pulls and data reporting by collaborating with external data agencies and internal teams.
• Support as required to respond to adhoc data and insight requests against key business of today performance or opportunities.
• Manage data budgets, payments and forecast submissions.
• Work with key external data providers to ensure we are getting most of out of them and they are delivering against our insights and reporting requirements.
• Support development on new solutions required to integrate UK&I cluster, and manage and maintain solution for consolidated overview of performance.

What are we looking for?

Graduate calibre with prior experience in FMCG/UK retail and data analytics/tools and insights generation.

• Data savvy: able to analyse data, pull out key insights, create recommendations and drive these into actionable change
• Experience of Category management tools preferable but not essential
• Developing and maintaining strong relationships both internal and external
• Working in cross functional environment/team
• Experience within UK FMCG/retail desirable

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.