What are the responsibilities and job description for the Target Everyday Category Analyst, Front End position at The Hershey Company?
Target Everyday Category Analyst
Posted Date: Mar 27, 2025
Requisition Number: 124810
Job Location: Minneapolis, MN
This position will be internally posted until
Pay Level: 1B
Why Hershey?
Over more than a century, our iconic brands have been built on a foundation of community investment and connections between people around the world. Equally competitive and compassionate, we continue to build a legacy as we invest in the people and snacks of the future.
From the beginning, Milton Hershey believed that if you do good, you’ll do well. By doing what we do best—from our delicious snacks to spreading goodness in our communities—we bring people together.
The spirit of creating human connections that motivated our founder over 125 years ago remains the driving force that inspires our 18,000 employees today.
And while much has changed in America since the days of Milton Hershey, the power of building connections with those around us—from consumers and shareholders, to our partners and employees—remains vital to the future of our children, our communities, and our business.
Why the Target Category Management Team?
On the Target Category Management Team our vision is clear. To be the premier insights partner delivering holistic and guest centric growth strategies to our partners at Target and Hershey. Our vision is grounded in three pillars. Utilizing our suite of world class data and insights. Creating winning strategies to drive the connected commerce environment. And holding each other accountable to be leaders within the organization. Our team is recognized as best in class and has a proven track record of success, but we are not afraid to think differently and embrace new ideas.
We know our people are our competitive advantage and we empower them to be the unbiased category experts. We are a high-performing team that loves winning in a fast-paced environment, but never doing it alone. We thrive on a collaborative spirit; we are fiercely competitive in business and highly supportive of each other.
What You’ll Do
Posted Date: Mar 27, 2025
Requisition Number: 124810
Job Location: Minneapolis, MN
This position will be internally posted until
Pay Level: 1B
Why Hershey?
Over more than a century, our iconic brands have been built on a foundation of community investment and connections between people around the world. Equally competitive and compassionate, we continue to build a legacy as we invest in the people and snacks of the future.
From the beginning, Milton Hershey believed that if you do good, you’ll do well. By doing what we do best—from our delicious snacks to spreading goodness in our communities—we bring people together.
The spirit of creating human connections that motivated our founder over 125 years ago remains the driving force that inspires our 18,000 employees today.
And while much has changed in America since the days of Milton Hershey, the power of building connections with those around us—from consumers and shareholders, to our partners and employees—remains vital to the future of our children, our communities, and our business.
Why the Target Category Management Team?
On the Target Category Management Team our vision is clear. To be the premier insights partner delivering holistic and guest centric growth strategies to our partners at Target and Hershey. Our vision is grounded in three pillars. Utilizing our suite of world class data and insights. Creating winning strategies to drive the connected commerce environment. And holding each other accountable to be leaders within the organization. Our team is recognized as best in class and has a proven track record of success, but we are not afraid to think differently and embrace new ideas.
We know our people are our competitive advantage and we empower them to be the unbiased category experts. We are a high-performing team that loves winning in a fast-paced environment, but never doing it alone. We thrive on a collaborative spirit; we are fiercely competitive in business and highly supportive of each other.
What You’ll Do
- Support the holistic everyday CMG business with focus on reporting integrity, planogram builds, promotional tracking, and analytics to support strategy.
- Collaborate with Target to sell in and track test and learns to grow category spaces.
- Collaboratively work with Target team to uncover insights and build action plans to drive profitable market share growth.
- Have the flexibility to be a total team player and jump in during times where you can assist the greater team on strategic deliverables with the customer.
- Display powerful storytelling ability to bring initiatives to life through traditional category management tools including, but not limited to: JDA, IRI syndicated data platform, Numerator, external resources, to ensure the execution and support of strategic business plan.
- Provide support to apply a holistic category approach to accelerate our digital sales penetration, improving our digital shelf placement with Targets Site Merch Team.
- CPG experience preferred
- Knowledge of Category Management processes and CPG Industry trends
- Category management foundations to include; space planning software, syndicated and panel data sources, with Target specific applications DOMO, VIQ, IRI TCN experience preferred.
- Strong drive for results and excellent communication skills
- Team-First mindset
- Intellectual Curiosity
- Strong problem-solving capabilities
- Analytic Skills
- Bachelor’s Degree required
- 1-3 Years Sales Experience Required, CPG Preferred
