Our top Energy client is looking for a Category Advisor in Bentonville, AR who will have the responsibility to serve select key retail customers with category development support. While this is a consultant role supporting our client on behalf of Aquent Studios, it is a full-time, long-term opportunity. Aquent offers amazing consultant benefits!
This role will provide unbiased insights, analytics and category reporting based on a variety of data sources. Primary focus is on regular customer reporting, ad hoc support and serving as a major contributor to significant customer planning periods. This is an onsite role based in Bentonville, AR working with retailers throughout North America.
Primary Job Functions: • Lead category projects from planogram refresh to redesigned overhaul • Collaborate with and provide regular reporting for retailers to optimize space-to-sales, efficient assortment, for current and adjacent categories. Create meaningful solutions that solve shopper's needs to improve the buying experience. • Analyze, create and recommend action and improvements for shoppers, customers and internal stakeholders • Strengthen category competency for the organization and influence processes for efficiency and effectiveness. Advance ways of thinking about the shopper journey, shopping decision trees, need states, barriers and opportunities both internally and with customers. Participate in customer planning and contribute to customer presentations. • Support cross-functional partners with ad hoc needs while upholding the strictest integrity of confidential customer information • Assigned retailer(s) across all North American retail channels • Develop process, plan, and deliver key needs ranging from urgent to a 3 year horizon • Lead shelf-reinvention and category management, contribute to customer presentations • Leverage and integrate new forms of key in-store communication, education and navigation • Develop new processes that improve our go-to-market approach and Shopper Based Design initiatives
Job Requirements: • 3+ years of recent experience leading category development projects • Be a wizard with JDA or similar space planning software • Excellent organizational skills • Analytical skills (trend, data, financial) • Strong preference for candidates that are effective & efficient with database and SQL skills • Effective communication skills (in-person, written, presentation) • Project management and collaboration skills, direct customer interaction experience • Experience influencing without authority • Proficient in MS Office, preference for those particularly skilled with creating impactful Excel tools and PowerPoint communication • Proficient with supplemental data resources including syndicated data (IRI, Nielsen, NPD) and customer point of sale data
Preferred Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: • Experience with a variety of categories and/or retailers • Demonstrated resilience and ability to managing a complex workload • Proficient with data visualization tools such as Tableau and Alteryx
Compensation Range: $60 -75/hr DOE
The range provided is our reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. The actual amount may be higher or lower, based on factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and location.
Client Description:
Aquent Studios is a global creative studio that delivers scale, speed and efficiency to the world's most recognized brands. We create the work that matters the most to them-work that has a real impact on their business. As an Aquent Studio team member, you'll have the opportunity to engage with the largest and most influential companies in the world, solving design challenges and extending their brands across tactic types and platforms, including digital design, UI/UX, video, motion, content, print design, web development, and more. If you want to do work that matters in a collaborative setting that values ingenuity and personal growth, you have found the right place!