What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Category Analyst position at Giant Food?
Category/Area of Expertise: Merchandising
Job Requisition: 400196_external_USA-MD-Hyattsville
Address: USA-MD-Hyattsville-8301 Professional Place Ste115
Store Code: GF - Center Store Brands (2765945)
Who Is Giant?
With over 2 million weekly customers and annual sales topping $5 billion, Giant is the #1 grocer in the Baltimore-Washington area. What began as one store on Georgia Avenue in Washington D.C. in 1936, now has grown to over 160 stores spanning across D.C., Maryland, Virginia and Delaware.
Giant's mission is beyond stocking groceries on shelves, we strive to be the most trusted and loved local food retailer in our community.
The Senior Category Analyst interprets data, provides recommendations based on analysis, and executes plans supporting the strategy and goals of the department.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Why Work at Giant?
At Giant, we love what we do, and make it easy for you to love it, too! Every day, we build on our over 80-year legacy of innovation, quality, and value and hard work to keep our top spot in the market and with our customers. The most important part of that? Our people.
Giant's thousands of associates in our stores, distribution centers and corporate headquarters have one thing in common: the opportunity to advance their career. We proudly hire and promote from our own ranks, offering opportunities to learn and advance, take trainings and earn degrees, serve our communities, receive recognition for their work and have a career, not just a job.
We proudly host Business Resource Groups ( BRGs) - six voluntary employee-led groups that help build community and are aligned with our mission, values, goals, business practices and objectives. The BRGs programming is designed to support their members and our associates through social activity, volunteering and professional development opportunities.
Our mission is to provide convenient ways for our customers to prepare meals for moments that matter most through meal solutions, recipe inspiration, time-saving services like pickup and delivery and beyond. Giant also values being a better neighbor. One way we support our neighbors is by providing donations and charitable efforts to our local partners that support our main charitable causes.
We'd love for you to become part of the Giant family and join us in our journey of being a Better Place to Work, a Better Place to Shop and a Better Neighbor - because, after all, our people truly make us Giant.
Job Requisition: 400196_external_USA-MD-Hyattsville
Address: USA-MD-Hyattsville-8301 Professional Place Ste115
Store Code: GF - Center Store Brands (2765945)
Who Is Giant?
With over 2 million weekly customers and annual sales topping $5 billion, Giant is the #1 grocer in the Baltimore-Washington area. What began as one store on Georgia Avenue in Washington D.C. in 1936, now has grown to over 160 stores spanning across D.C., Maryland, Virginia and Delaware.
Giant's mission is beyond stocking groceries on shelves, we strive to be the most trusted and loved local food retailer in our community.
The Senior Category Analyst interprets data, provides recommendations based on analysis, and executes plans supporting the strategy and goals of the department.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Contribute to Giant's high-performance team and partnerships both internally and externally
- Work cross functionally with internal departments: Merchandising, Merchandise Planning, Marketing, Pricing Strategy, Supply Chain, Finance and Operations
- Maintain relationships with Giant's Vendor Community to develop sales plans
- Curate distinctive, customer centric assortment
- Provide data driven recommendations to identify key points and opportunities that lead to meaningful and relevant conclusions
- Create meaningful and engaging omnichannel promotions to author Giant's featured assortment
- Forecast promotional activities and plans in alignment with departmental budget
- Capture and communicate insights to the appropriate stakeholders
- Use insights to develop strategies which anticipate changes in the marketplace
- Identify pricing & promotion tactics to gain significant & substantial competitive advantage at a mastery level
- Identify areas for gaining significant & substantial competitive advantage through product development initiatives at a mastery level
- Provide advanced-level recognition & adapt to and changing situations, providing creative solutions to achieve desired results
- Provide training, onboarding support, and contributive feedback as a leader amongst peers
- Take on stretch assignments outside of day to day and desk specific responsibility
- Support continuous improvement and knowledge sharing
- 5-7 years of analytical experience in a retail and/or Consumer Packaged Goods role
- Bachelor's degree in business or related field
- Proficient in MSL Office Suite (Excel, PPT, Word)
- Balances workload and priorities
- Proven success with analytical interpretation of complex data sets
- Effective and concise communication and presentation skills
- Precise attention to detail
- Negotiation ability
- Exposure to with syndicated/competitive data (e.g. Nielsen, Circana/IRI)
Why Work at Giant?
At Giant, we love what we do, and make it easy for you to love it, too! Every day, we build on our over 80-year legacy of innovation, quality, and value and hard work to keep our top spot in the market and with our customers. The most important part of that? Our people.
Giant's thousands of associates in our stores, distribution centers and corporate headquarters have one thing in common: the opportunity to advance their career. We proudly hire and promote from our own ranks, offering opportunities to learn and advance, take trainings and earn degrees, serve our communities, receive recognition for their work and have a career, not just a job.
We proudly host Business Resource Groups ( BRGs) - six voluntary employee-led groups that help build community and are aligned with our mission, values, goals, business practices and objectives. The BRGs programming is designed to support their members and our associates through social activity, volunteering and professional development opportunities.
Our mission is to provide convenient ways for our customers to prepare meals for moments that matter most through meal solutions, recipe inspiration, time-saving services like pickup and delivery and beyond. Giant also values being a better neighbor. One way we support our neighbors is by providing donations and charitable efforts to our local partners that support our main charitable causes.
We'd love for you to become part of the Giant family and join us in our journey of being a Better Place to Work, a Better Place to Shop and a Better Neighbor - because, after all, our people truly make us Giant.
Salary : $68,325 - $109,320
