Job Description

Pay Range $73,000 to $86,000 per year.

The Category Development Analyst will be responsible for analyzing Syndicated Data to provide business insights and recommendations to improve sales, operations, and profitability across all of Foster Farms Business Units. This individual will support Foster Farms growth strategy by owning the monthly reporting and ensuring its accuracy, while working cross functionally with other category development team members, sales, and marketing teams.

Additionally, the CDA will play a significant role in the monthly scorecard process. They will own collecting the updated reports from cross functional team members, load into the dashboard, publish the report, and schedule the monthly meetings.

Essential Job Functions:

• Own updating the Monthly Syndicated Data Reporting and publishing in a timely manner that enables Category Development, Marketing, and Sales to quickly understand market trends and opportunities.
• Own updating the Monthly Business Scorecard, publishing, and setting up meetings between Sr Leadership, Marketing Director, and Sales Managers.
• Maintain custom product aggregates in IRI and Stratum to ensure correct reporting of Foster Farms brand share and trends.
• Own investigations with IRI to correct product coding issues – collaborate with Marketing Analyst to gather codes and shipment information to communicate with IRI to correct.
• Support Category Development Managers in delivering insights to the Marketing Team to deeper understand category dynamics to support strategic business plan.
• Assist Category Development Managers in communicating macro insights regularly to the balance of the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Management, Finance, Accounting, Data Analytics, or related field.
• 1-3 years of analytical experience in consumer goods, retail, or other relevant industry experience
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint. Expert level Excel with experience using tools such as VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, Power Pivot, Index Match, and Advanced conditional formatting. Ability to write queries in Access a plus.
• Knowledge and experience with syndicated data, customer card/POS data, and panel data and their application (i.e., Nielsen, IRI, NPD, Numerator, 84.51, dunnhumby, SPINS, Stratum, Spectra/demographics)
• Strong attention to detail and technical, report running and analytical abilities.
• Solid communication skills to include verbal, presentation, and written capabilities.
• Excellent project management and problem-solving skills
• Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work cross-functionally with all personality types.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Foster Farms is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities, Females, Veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Foster Farms participates in E-Verify during the hire process at all locations for all new TEAM Members.