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Category Manager - Walmart

Job Description

Category Manager - Walmart

Provide category management and sales analytics expertise across the Philips Personal Health portfolio that will contribute to driving sales for Philips and Walmart.

Your role:

• You will collaborate with sales team colleagues and Walmart to monitor omnichannel consumer and sales trends for the key categories within Philips Personal Health: Oral Health Care, Grooming & Beauty and Mother & Child Care.
• You will provide expertise in using the Walmart Scintilla tool to help drive sales results for Philips and Walmart. This will include partnering with the Walmart Scintilla account team, applying insights and communicating results regularly to Walmart and the Philips organization.
• You will contribute to guidance for assortment, pricing, promotion and shelf layout and construct planograms for illustration purposes as needs require.
• You will leverage AI resources and processes where applicable to maximize efficiency. Serve as an analytic thought leader for Philips and help to train colleagues to use data and tools to continuously improve business performance.
• You will build credibility with presentations to Philips sales team and Walmart buyers as needed to share category knowledge, category management recommendations and industry trends.

You're the right fit if:

• You've acquired 5+ years of experience working with retailers, CPG manufacturers and/or consultants in category management, merchandising and data management and insights. Extensive familiarity with Walmart is preferred.
• Your skills include strong familiarity with Walmart Scintilla, syndicated data resources (Nielsen, Circana, etc.) and data hierarchies and the ability to navigate the nuances associated with using these tools. Demonstrated ability to understand retailer specific sales tools as well as shopper and panel data and to generate insights.
• Experience with a planogram software package (e.g. Blue Yonder Space Planning Plus) is desirable.
• You have a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• You are comfortable navigating between a diverse group categories and data sources to solve problems and create winning selling stories.
• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position .

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company's facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company's main facilities, generally at the customers' or suppliers' locations.

This is an office role located in Rogers, AR.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others.

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Philips Transparency Details

The pay range for this position in AR is $98,000 to $156,000.

The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.

In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered. Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more. Details about our benefits can be found here .

At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case.

Additional Information

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.

Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position. For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Rogers/Bentonville, AR.

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This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace.