As the Beverage Category Analyst, you will provide the analytics for the Beverage and Beer Categories including mining data for Category decision-making, reporting sales and margins, analyzing transactions and market baskets, identifying category trends, benchmarking to top tier competitors, and performing SWOT analysis. You will assist in developing annual Category plans as well as space allocation reports and tactics for pricing, promotion, assortment, merchandising, and supply chain. 

Your daily work will also include the following:

• Using information management skills to develop, run, and prepare quality reports via Access and Business Objects
• Providing detailed sales and margin information for the Categories for all levels of management
• Interacting with the supplier network for information and industry trends
• Monitoring all Category rebates and supplier billings for the Categories
• Assisting in Category communications to all levels of management and the field
• Creating category charts and graphs in PowerPoint and Excel for monthly reporting to senior management
• Benchmarking Categories to top-tier industry standards
• Researching and develop category trends and cutting-edge technology
• Monitoring and publishing all Category test results
• Interacting with Information Technology to enhance and refine information flow
• Assisting Category Managers with Plan-o-gram development and revisions by working with Spaceman software to enhance all Plan-o-grams as well as assisting with portal plan-o-gram maintenance
• Assisting Category Managers with store layout to maximize space-to-sales ratios for all store sizes