Category Advisor

**Position Snapshot**
**Business area**:Nestlé Canada
**Location**:North York, ON located at 25 Sheppard Ave W, North York, ON M2N 6S8;
**Hybrid**

**A little bit about us**
While Nestlé is known for KitKat, Gerber, Nescafe, and Häagen-Dazs, our recipe for success comes down to one thing: our people.

We strive to lead a people-focused culture that empowers employees to bring their authentic selves to work each day. There are 3,000+ members of Nestlé Canada celebrated for taking action using agility, courage, and trust to find solutions that benefit the business or greater good. We’re a team of changemakers, who are curious and challenge the status quo, that take risks that will help drive us forward.

Our focus is not only on nourishing our customers, but also about enriching you. We know that empowerment leads to strong employee engagement, a great work culture, and motivated employees.

**Position Summary**
As a Category Advisor, you will be responsible for fostering a sustainable and mutually beneficial partnership with Wal-Mart in the Adult Nutrition and Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, and Supplements (VMHS) categories. This role involves creating customized customer solutions for the account and facilitating the sharing and exchange of analyses related to category and account opportunities. Your efforts will contribute to the overall growth and success of both the partnership and the product categories.

**A day in the life of a Category Advisor**
- Participates in scheduled (weekly) customer meetings and continuously communicates with the customer to ensure satisfaction.
- Coordinates and communicates with Category Shopper Development team
- Acts as the “store-level” and Industry expert for our customers through continual Retail Visits and analysis of Industry Resources.
- Create and build fact-based tools, scorecards and presentations to provide category insights to customer.
- Upholds signed Confidentiality Agreements and Firewall with Customer information.
- Drives category profitability at the customer through executing all category management initiatives: Listing Base Recommendations, Promotion Planning and Post Evaluation, Category Reviews, Ongoing Business Tracking and course correction
- Provides strategic recommendations to customer following thorough category review and analysis of 4P’s: price, presence, placement and promotion
- Challenges existing strategies and concepts, increases current knowledge base and insight through testing of new ideas
- Applies and refines Customer and Nestlé category management practices and processes
- Management of Customer Planogram review process in areas of responsibility (including POG development)
- Manage complete toolbox of category insights to advise customer: POS data, NIQ, Numerator, Shopper Intelligence, etc.

**What will make you successful?**
- 3 - 5 years in sales and analytical role, with a proven track record of delivering business results
- Expertise in the retail landscape and category management are core competencies.
- Ability to work in a customer data platform to extract data insights (Retail link) is a prerequisite
- Post secondary education in Business Administration or any related field
- Strong computer skills, specifically with MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Strong communication skills with a demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks efficiently, showcasing excellent time and project management while maintaining attention to detail.
- Motivation as a self-starter with the ability to think “out of the box” in an effort to secure incremental business opportunities.

**What you need to know Benefits**
- Comprehensive total rewards benefits package including Health and Dental benefits that start on day one of employment
- Company matched pension plan
- Four weeks of Vacation and five personal days (Personal Paid Holidays)
- Flexible and hybrid work arrangements
- Excellent training and development programs as well as opportunities to grow within the company
- Access to Educational Assistance & Tuition Reimbursement
- Bonus eligibility
- Gender affirmation benefits to ensure access to necessary care, resources, and coverage for gender-affirming procedures
- Fertility Services and Surrogacy Medical Coverage to support the pursuit of a path to parenthood regardless of medical conditions, gender or sexual orientation
- Adoption benefits to remove some of the financial barriers associated with adoption
- Up to 50% off - Nespresso Coffee Machine, Capsules and accessories
- Access to the Discount Company store with Nestlé, Nespresso, and Purina products (Located across various Nestle offices/sites)

**What you need to know**

Nestlé Canada is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. We welcome qualified applicants to bring their diverse and unique experiences as a result of their education, perspectives, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, lan