Senior Manager Category Strategy And Insights

Overview

PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $70 billion in net revenue in 2020, driven by a complementary food and beverage portfolio that includes Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Quaker, and Tropicana. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

We are PepsiCo. We are game changers, mountain movers and history makers. We are a diverse group, spread among 200 countries and united by a shared set of values and goals. That’s why we Perform with Purpose. Together, we blaze new trails, succeed, celebrate and never settle for second best. At PepsiCo, we’re committed to performing well – both as individuals and in teams – to strengthen the company.

What a great time to join the PepsiCo Walmart Inc. Team: We are partnering with Walmart in a more collaborative & transparent manner than ever, investing in data and analytics, and strategic projects largely encompassed within the Next Gen workstream.

The Walmart Senior Manager of Category Strategy & Insights – Designate will lead strategic projects which are focal to our Next Gen initiatives with Walmart while also building our talent pipeline. This role is designed to be highly developmental, reporting to the Vice President and engaging with key stakeholders such as the Senior Directors of Advisor teams and Commercial Insights, as well as other cross functional leaders. This grooming role experience will help you on-board to the Walmart team, lead ownable and meaningful work on the Next Gen initiative set working for the Vice President, and gain exposure to Commercial Insights and Advisor teams. The intent is to prepare you to step into a Senior Manager role within Strategy and Insights, with strong initial on-boarding plan and opportunity to contribute to key aspects of our purpose agenda, such as contributing to the DE&I Walmart PepsiCo team’s initiatives and building relationships across the team.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of critical Next Gen initiatives to include scoping and establishing parameters for Omni Advisorship.
• Learn and master Luminate which is a key data insights resource we leverage at Walmart.
• Develop compelling insights presentation leveraging broad range of data and engage with the customer to share actionable insights and consult on growth strategies in partnership with the VP of Category Insights and Strategy and Insights.
• Create and deliver informative, detailed, and impactful category reviews and share reporting for internal leadership to gain experience on sales insights with focus on white space areas to be most incremental to the team.
• Steward strategic thinking and a scenario-planning mindset to collaboratively design ‘problems to solve,’ moving ideas to initiatives to test-and-learn projects
• Collaborate with Sr. Director of Advisor team and VP of Ecommerce and VP of Strategy and Insights to scope and define omni Advisorship business case and provide interim deliverables until can be more permanently resourced.
• Utilize your experience in analytics, insights, and storytelling to convey actionable insights.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required; MBA preferred
• Must be willing and able to travel 20% of the time
• Experience with industry resources (e.g. IRI or Nielsen, Luminate, 8451, Euromonitor, Mintel, Kantar, etc).
• Collaboration is essential in this role as the person will work very closely with Walmart Merchants, internal teams, cross-functional internal teams, and HQ/Business Units teams
• Ability to demonstrate a growth mindset and intellectual curiosity
• Strong use of influencing skills to gain alignment across internal/external key stakeholders
• 5+ years of category management experience (Advisor/Category Captain experience preferred)
• This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States
• Ability to communicate complex information and implications both verbally, in interactions with senior customer leaders, and in written presentations, utilizing "storytelling techniques" to communicate a clear, compelling and cohesive shopper story.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to send and receive information clearly and concisely
• Demonstrated strategic orientation, ability to see the bigger picture and translate into tactical action plans. Experience with custom research methodologies preferred but not required.
• Ability to analyze quantitative and qualitative data to identify patterns, opportunities and gaps, and integrate across disparate data sources.
• Strong planning/organizing skills: capable of managing major projects simultaneously
• Strong teamwork skills: possess exceptional group facilitation skills

Covid-19 vaccination may be a condition of employment dependent on role and location. For specific information, please discuss role requirements with the recruiter.

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