Category Profit Improvement Analyst, National Brands

Posted: Tuesday, 03 December 2024
Valid Thru: Thursday, 02 January 2025
Index Requested on: 12/04/2024 01:24:58
Indexed on: 12/04/2024 01:24:58

Location: Cincinnati, OH, 45201, US

Industry: Advertising and Public Relations
Occupational Category: 13-0000.00 - Business and Financial Operations
Type of Employment: FULL_TIME

Kroger is hiring!

Description:

Deliver internal analyses and external business intelligence insights to the category management team by implementing a robust analytical process (e.g., Collaborative Category Optimization) for designated categories. Responsible for the management of data (i.e., gathering, summarizing, and analyzing of data) to complete the analysis for designated categories. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.Minimum
- Bachelor's Degree in business, information management, finance, retail, CPG, or data analytics
- Familiarity with data modeling, data dictionary, data analytics and data profiling
- Ability to synthesize analysis into compelling oral/written communications and presentations
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills
- Analytical skills with ability to identify, quantify and effectively leverage data to support business decisions, communicate opportunities and/or raise business risks
- Self-starter, ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment while delivering solid results
- Ability to become a key point of contact for the team, speak to internal clients, develop/maintain long term relationship with internal stakeholders

Desired
- 1 year of experience in a data organization, clearly exposed and performing tasks within different data governance aspects (quality, standards, reference data, data management)
- 1 year of experience building should cost and TCO analyses- Business Intelligence and Data Analytics
- Map key business questions to data need and assess feasibility of obtaining requested internal/external data
- Collect and validate data from internal systems and supplier sources as needed
- Facilitate and execute development of spend analytics reports and insights to drive data backed decisions and improve performance (eg. financial, market, supplier, pricing)
- Perform system agnostic calculations and combine data from multiple sources into a presentable format
- Draw insights, document findings, and communicate results from internal and market analysis
- Prepare category improvement projections and conduct post-implementation variance analysis
- Interact with other CoE activities to provide assistance in pulling the data at different stages of the sourcing events and determine common data needs
- Support CPI Sr. Analyst and Manager in coordinating with category management to develop and perform spend analytics and negotiation materials per category and aggregate
- Advanced Analytics
- Identify total internal costs associated with supplier price, delivery, operations and quality
- Quantify the overall total ownership cost of each product or service to identify cost savings
- Perform and report should cost analysis & TCO analysis
- Benefit Tracking
- Partner with the KPI & Benefits team to develop a tracking mechanism to report and communicate the savings achieved
- Additional Support
- Support business user adoption of business intelligence and self-service reporting objectives
- Support talent development framework and proven experience in creating/maintaining training curriculum
- Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

Responsibilities:

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Educational requirements:

  • high school

Desired Skills:

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Benefits:

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