Hiring Company: 

Delicatessen Services Co., LLC

Overview:

Support the Category Insights efforts by providing category, consumer purchasing, product sales analysis and reports that are used to support the objectives of internal cross-functional teams, and drive sales and share growth across Boar’s Head portfolio. This support will include, but not be limited to, category and competitive review development, sales tracking, assortment analysis, product attribute database logic/maintenance, and strategic initiative tracking.

Job Description:

Essential Functions

• Identify business trends and drivers and communicate findings.
• Track and utilize external publications, newsletters, and third-party data sources to understand category, consumer, competitive, and market trends and communicate their impact.
• Synthesize/analyze syndicated and internal data to support the business needs across Boar’s Head internal teams including Marketing, Sales, Innovation, Research & Development, Commercialization.
• Leverage third party data resources to broaden perspective and identify opportunities; third party resources include Circana syndicated point of sale data and Home Scan Panel, Nielsen TDLinx and Spectra geography attributing and targeting.
• Support regular standardized reporting and analysis and distribute to appropriate audiences ensuring accuracy and maintaining confidentiality and integrity of the data.
• Develop understanding of Boar’s Head product portfolio including product attributes, segmentation, seasonality, regionality, and competitive set.
• Transform data sets into stories including accompanying visualizations with a clear narrative.
• Present insights and presentations to internal Boar’s Head teams.
• Possess necessary aptitude to become a domain expert on one or more of Boar’s Head tools.
• Champion curiosity for understanding consumer demographics, geographics, and lifestyles; and how their interactions drive purchase behaviors.
• Work independently or collaboratively to complete tasks and projects.
• Perform all and any other tasks assigned by Boar’s Head management personnel.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree (in Business Administration, Marketing or a closely related field) preferred.
• Minimum 1 year experience in the Consumer Products Goods industry in an analytical/category management role preferred.
• Experience with syndicated data (Circana and/or Nielsen) and analysis background preferred.
• Advanced and proven data analysis and reasoning skills.
• Technical understanding and experience of query tools/reporting databases.
• PC Keyboard, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau.
• Excellent/proven analytical and reasoning skills.
• Strong reading and writing comprehension skills, previous business writing curriculum preferred.

Industry-Specific Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Needed

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite including advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint preferred.
• Experience pulling and analyzing syndicated sales data/POS is preferred.
• Experience with advanced analytics tools is preferred.
• Experience with shopper data (loyalty card or panel) is preferred.

Functional/Job-Related Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Needed

• Work Planning, Organization & Execution - advanced ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks while meeting set deadlines.
• Strategic and Analytical Thinking – analytical approach to information gathering, report creation, trend identification, insights development, and communication of recommendations.
• Analytical Curiosity - hunger to learn, understand why and seek opportunities for both business and personal growth.
• Continuous Process Improvement - effectively analyze processes for quality and improvement
• Strategic Planning – ability to interpret and develop strategic plans, converting corporate programs into volume/dollar projections.
• Problem Identification & Resolution - Ability to understand, resolve and correct situations with internal teams, sales and customers.

Language Skills

Ability to speak, read, and write using the English language.

Reasoning Ability

This position requires the ability to work independently, exercise good judgment and be proactive.  The candidate must also maintain confidentiality to ensure that the integrity of the Boar’s Head Brand is not jeopardized.

Working Conditions

• Office environment
• Limited overnight travel, up to 10%

Location:

Sarasota, FL

Time Type:

Full time

Department:

Business Insights