Category Analyst

Category Analyst

Be part of a growing, successful company in an exciting and challenging field. Border States is 100% employee-owned, which means you're empowered to make decisions, find solutions and receive rewards for your hard work. This position will be located in Fargo, ND.

Job Summary

Supports the company's growth and profitability goals through the evaluation of category analytics with the intent to develop strategies for improving category health including : growing sales, profitability, improving terms and conditions, growing incentive programs reducing category fragmentation, evaluation of market relevant cost and negotiation of into stock cost, and improving margins.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Analyzes key vendor performance by making comparisons with available benchmark metrics from other similar vendor for industry, product, market, and location.
• Responsible for ensuring product hierarchy assignment, attribute strategy, market basket identification, build-out of nomenclature for product descriptions and material group assignments.
• Supports category objectives, vendor initiatives and communications consistent with strategic vendor performance plans.
• Supports the Category Manager in providing analytics, category knowledge and category analysis on which to base our vendor strategies to better capitalize on opportunities.
• Participates in vendor meetings and assists with documenting, analyzing and accomplishing action items related to vendor key performance indicator improvements.
• Collaborates with Inventory Procurement to facilitate changes and updates to SAP data and costing.
• Ensures proactive cost competitiveness cost continuity with market levels and analyzes forward buy opportunities.
• Acts as the first point of contact for day-to-day category / product related questions.
• Analyzes inventory breadth and depth from a strategic, category perspective.
• Tracks BSE performance for manufacturer incentive programs.
• Analyzes data to model Vendor and AD Incentive programs maximization.
• Responsible for creation of cross reference tables for strategic vendors and products.

Non-essential Functions

Qualifications

Skills and Abilities

Physical Requirements

Frequency at which you would carry / lift in a typical day : Occasionally 0 33% Frequently 34 66% Continuously : 67 100%

Physical Activity

Frequency at which you would do the following in a typical day :

Additional Information

This job description is a summary of the job duties and responsibilities and is not intended to cover all possible job duties and is subject to change at the employer's discretion. Employees must be able to perform the essential job duties and satisfy job requirements either with or without a reasonable accommodation.