Senior Manager - Category Analytics

• Accelerate PepsiCo business growth by supporting the North America DX Sector Leads with Category analysis, Space and assortment strategy recommendations to drive growth
• Responsible for delivering assortment and space analysis, category performance reviews, and addressing ad-hoc customer requests, based on internal and external data sources
• Provide analytics to support key strategic customer engagements and to support category assortment and space interventions

• Supports in the creation and driving of winning execution strategies in-store with customers.
• Identifies sales opportunities and optimization tactics to drive category demand, space and assortment
• Space Management- Optimizing shelf space allocation for products.
• Assortment Planning- Developing tailored product assortments for retail locations.

• An experienced Insight or Analytics professional with experience in a leading consumer goods company with 10+ years
• Education: MBA, Masters or bachelors in engineering/economics, statistics, marketing.
• Language: English Fluent
• High degree of familiarity with CPG and Food & Beverage industry data sources, including Nielsen/IRi (POS and HH panel), Kantar Worldpanel, etc.
• Deep understanding of CPG industry business performance outputs and causal measures, their relationships, and how to address business questions in a robust way that translates to simple outputs
• Proficient with Power Point and advance Excel skills. Willingness to learn new tools and capabilities.
• Strong collaborator: Interested and motivated by working with others. Actively creates and participates in opportunities to co-create solutions across markets; will be willing and able to embrace Responsive Ways of Working
• Can easily see how insights/research learning can improve businesses impact and frames up presentation efforts and opportunities to inform business decisions
• Proven analytics, shopper research experience, or consumer insights experience applying statistics to CPG industry business problems
• Problem solving: Ability to approach complex problems methodically and develop effective solutions.
• Operational experience from business servicing sector and/or consulting experience would be a plus

Essential:

• Become an indispensable partner for Sector Commercial by showing great thought leadership with ability to recognize and take actions to improve delivery of work. Not always being asked.
• Navigating conflict in a collaborative way to provide a solution that works for GBS & Sector.
• Ability to work in diverse teams
• Solution-oriented approach to problem solving
• Possess ability to analyze & benchmark competitive scenarios
• Depth and breadth of syndicated data analytics and statistical modeling
• Ability to work collaboratively and proactively with multi-functional teams
• Complete understanding of internal & external data sources that could contribute to analytics roles across service centers
• Strong analytical thinking with proven ability to connect data & insight from category consumption, brands drivers, macro & micro trends, and future forces of consumer change and deliver clear implications for the business.