Category Analyst

2 weeks ago

Vaughan, Canada White Cap Full time

A position at White Cap isn’t your ordinary job. You’ll work in an exciting and diverse environment, meet interesting people, and have a variety of career opportunities.

The White Cap family is committed to Building Trust on Every Job. We do this by being deeply knowledgeable, fully capable, and always dependable, and our associates are the driving force behind this commitment.

**Job Summary**

Responsible for providing analytical support to maximize marketing and selling efforts within channels/categories and driving company sales and profits through strategic insights.

**Major Tasks, Responsibilities, and Key Accountabilities**
- Analyzes market trends, pricing and product line assortment for a category. Analyzes current and historical data, continuously validating and investigating in pursuit of deep-dive answers.
- Provides post-mortem analysis, summarizing key learnings on category initiatives e.g. events, new product introductions, promotions.
- Identifies gaps in knowledge base and work with the team to increase understanding of customer/consumer wants, needs, and purchase behavior that will influence category growth.
- Supports the development of presentations such as training materials, product launches and line reviews.
- Owns and maintains the tiered pricing structure, analyze trends and provide recommendations to key stakeholders
- Provides periodic and ad hoc customer or product analysis reporting.
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

**Nature and Scope**
- Demonstrates skill in data analysis techniques by resolving missing/incomplete information and inconsistencies/anomalies in more complex research/data.
- Nature of work requires increasing independence; receives guidance only on unusual, complex problems or issues. Work review typically involves periodic review of output by a supervisor and/or direct customers of the process.
- May provide general guidance/direction to or train junior level support or professional personnel.

**Work Environment**
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
- Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

**Education and Experience**
- Typically requires BS/BA in a related discipline. Generally 2-5 years of experience in a related field OR MS/MA and generally 2-4 years of experience in a related field. Certification is required in some areas.

**Preferred Qualifications**

If you’re looking to play a role in building Canada, consider one of our open opportunities. We can’t wait to meet you.

**Functional Area** Sourcing

**Recruiter** Moore-Bellerande, Jefferson

**Req ID** WCJR-011718

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