Category Sales Analyst (Graco, Paper Mate, Sharpie)

Summary: Newell Brands is a leading consumer products company with a portfolio of iconic brands. The Category Sales Analyst will facilitate collaboration between business and technical teams, utilizing data-driven insights to improve sales, profitability, and process efficiency. Responsibilities: - Run analysis, reports and more to better understand and improve sales, profitability and process efficiency for internal customers - Draw actionable insights from varying data sets: consumption, market share, digital shelf, search, among many others - Interpret complex datasets to tell stories and develop an organized set of conclusions/recommendations that can be easily digested by a broad audience - Build partnerships with cross-functional teams to understand trends and opportunities for improvement, address customer needs and product pain-points - Help build automated reporting through AI & BI platforms, visualizations, and analytical models - Work with syndicated data sources and partner with technical teams to facilitate the consumption of data for APIs - In partnership with other members of the team, collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Supply Chain to support/optimize innovation launches and promotional strategies - Participation with sales results, annual planning, and forecasting processes - Support the continued enhancement and evolution of Newell’s analytics capabilities to a best-in-class level - Stay up to date on industry trends/innovations and drive new analytics initiatives that contribute to business goals Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in business, analytics - 1-5 years of direct hands on-Retail/ CPG experience providing solutions in a large global company - Skill with Microsoft Office applications for the creations of reports, presentations and analysis including Excel functions, formulas, pivot tables, Power Pivot and Power Query - Strong business acumen with an analytical and problem-solving mindset - Ability to operate in a matrixed team environment with deadlines & deliverable dates shifting around - Intellectual curiosity for digging into the underlying story to be told with data - Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate technical information to both a technical and non-technical audience - Broad understanding of analytical processes including but not limited to data management, forecasting, optimization, predictive modeling and visualization Preferred Qualifications: - Omnichannel experience preferred - 1+ years of experience with Target business and expertise with systems such as Vender IQ, SOLYS, or BPD data is preferred - Preferred experience with data modeling tools such as ChatGPT, PowerBI, and Tableau - Familiarity with financial concepts preferred (promotional lift, profitability, inventory levels, etc.) - Experience synthesizing disparate data sources to drive to logical, concise, and actionable conclusions, preferred - Experience using POS Sales data alongside other data sources such as invoice, product margin, supply chain, web marketing, product, and shopper behavior metrics to provide a holistic program for retail growth, preferred Required Skills: Data analytics, Business acumen, Microsoft Excel Important Skills: PowerBI, Tableau, Retail/CPG experience Nice-to-Have Skills: Intellectual curiosity, Matrix team collaboration, Problem-solving mindset