Manager, Category Leadership

Your Opportunity as the Manager, Category Leadership - Walmart

You will be responsible for leading the category advisor relationship inclusive of strategy development and modular execution for a designated category at Walmart. This role will lead a team of three direct reports working directly with Walmart to deliver winning category growth strategies. Key responsibilities include leading and advancing Category Management capabilities, developing holistic category strategies, and delivering flawless modular execution to drive winning in-store and e-commerce category growth for Walmart. This role works closely with our internal Category Strategy and Shopper Insight teams and many of our other cross functional partners to create holistic analyses of the Category landscape to develop and implement winning category growth strategies for Walmart.

Location: Bentonville, AR

Work Arrangements: Hybrid ~30% in office presence

In this role you will:

• Foster collaborative relationships with the buyer, planner, modular development, and replenishment teams at Walmart

• Develop actionable insights and strategies to drive winning category growth for Walmart

• Manage a team of three direct reports in support of delivering flawless category advisory execution

• Be the omni-channel insights leader by integrating the digital shelf and omni-insights to drive optimal assortment and space recommendations to drive category growth for Walmart

• Develop category performance scorecards and dashboards to evaluate sales, distribution, and category landscape activity

• Employ space management and automation tools (Shelf IQ) to drive modular efficiencies and accuracy

• Develop holistic omni-channel strategies by leveraging insights and analytics from industry-wide and retailer-specific data sources

• Deliver flawless modular execution

• Provide thought leadership on Category trends and growth strategies

• Build influential category growth strategies by gathering and analyzing category, consumer, and market data from multiple sources (e.g., Luminate, IRI, Retail Link, shopper insights, sales data).

• Guide team through adoption and implementation of best-in-class category tools and resources

The Right Place for You

We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.

What we are looking for:

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree

• 5+ years' experience in CPG industry in category management related roles

• Previous Walmart category advisor experience

• Track record of developing automated reporting tools and dashboards to deliver industry leading business intelligence

• Proficient in using Syndicated (IRI, Nielsen) and Panel Data

• Proficient in Walmart Retail Link and Luminate

• Specialized knowledge and proficiency in JDA (Space planning), Windows, Excel, and related software applications

• Regularly demonstrate the ability to think outside the normal boundaries to develop new solutions that enhance category leadership capabilities

• Proactively contributes thought leadership on industry trends

• Strong customer management and project management skills

• Ability to travel up to 20%

Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role (not required):

• Previous people management experience

• Proficient with data visualization software (Tableau)

• Proficient with 3rd Party data analysis (NPD, Mintel, Kantar)

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