Category Space Planning Analyst

With new innovations and exciting expansions plans in place, there has never been a better time to join the Ferrero Group and be extraordinary with us!

As the Category Capability Analyst, CCC & Spreads, you will play a key role in driving the growth of your categories by shaping and advancing our category growth platforms. You will help build and strengthen our Category Management Center of Excellence, where you will enhance technical capabilities and establish standard processes that elevate how our teams operate. In this role, you will also take the lead in supporting and enabling key selling initiatives for your assigned categories, ensuring that you influence both strategy and execution.

The position is hybrid, requiring 3 days a week in office, and will be based in our US headquarters in Parsippany, NJ and report to the Category Management Capabilities Sr. Manager.

• Develop a strong understanding of Blue Yonder Space Planning to provide planogram recommendations and analyses across channels.

• Develop and maintain the planogram database and reporting to support internal and field sales.
• Support the standardized space and assortment planning process for consulting with key customers
• Support our planogram compliance process, integrating HQ and Field personnel into the space planning effort. 
• Coordinate big data integration with category management data sources
• Support and maintain “Category to Customer” tools to enable the field category management team to customize national category growth strategies for their accounts
• Coordinate category management technology needs with the commercial IT function
• Maintain the category management training curriculum
• Work cross-functionally with sales and marketing teams on shopper insights and consumer research.
• Enable field sales teams to meet KPIs by providing selling story materials and additional account support.
• Develop and maintain a positive, productive relationship with trade marketing, field sales, and brand team stakeholders.
• Support a high achieving Category Management team capable of sustaining the company’s profitability, goals, and vision.
• Take on a subject matter expert role for key data tools (i.e. assortment, IRI, loyalty data, etc.) to help assist other team members.

Developmental Opportunities:

• Interact with cross-functional team members from different departments and levels of the organization, gaining exposure, awareness of other functions, and experience collaborating.
• Rotate within the HQ Category Team to gain experience across the full Ferrero portfolio. 
• Participate in Ferrero & Category Management specific trainings to sharpen your skills and prepare for advancement opportunities within the Category Management team. 
• Formal and informal mentorships with stakeholders for Sales, Trade Marketing, Brand, and Consumer & Shopper Understanding.  Provides for multiple career mapping opportunities. 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job
• 3+ years’ analytics or data management experience in a food/beverage, consumer products, logistics, or manufacturing industry.
• High Proficiency in Blue Yonder Space Planning or Apollo Retail Space Planning or planogram generating related software
• Syndicated data experience (IRI or Nielsen)
• Ability to analyze and interpret complex sets of data and make business recommendations based on analysis.
• Must possess a basic knowledge of project/program management concepts, practices and procedures
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to build consensus and foster positive relationships.
• Capacity to solve problems through creative, innovative solutions and challenge traditional methods of accomplishing tasks and removing obstacles.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact effectively with all levels of the organization and in a variety of cultures.
• Ability to creatively organize and present data in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong organization, problem-solving, and project management skills.
• Ability to collaborate and work well cross-functionally.

• Ability to convince, influence, and motivate all levels within the business to achieve objectives.

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The base salary range for this position is $90,000 - $110,000. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors permitted by law. This range represents the anticipated salary for this position at this time.

In addition to base salary, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and other benefits.

Ferrero began its journey in the small town of Alba in Piedmont, Italy, in 1946. Today, it is one of the world’s largest sweet-packaged food companies, with many iconic brands sold in countries all over the world. Find out more about Ferrero at ferrero.com.

Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative, and highly rewarding.
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Ferrero is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable human rights laws. Ferrero will recruit, hire, train, and promote all persons without regard to race, creed, color, sex (including pregnancy, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity), religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, or history of disability (except where physical or mental abilities are a bona fide occupational requirement and the individual is not able to perform the essential functions of the position even with reasonable accommodations), citizenship, or any other protected characteristic. 

Ferrero will accommodate the needs of applicants with disabilities throughout all stages of the selection process. If you need accommodation during the recruitment process, please advise the People & Organization (HR) Representative. Information relating to the need for accommodation and accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.