Category Analyst

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**Job Summary**

Responsible for providing administrative and 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.
- Support category management team in managing special projects and managing workflow and inquiries from other functional teams.
- 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.

**About White Cap Canada Inc.**:
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